deadbeat

  • 31deadbeat dad — noun count AMERICAN INFORMAL a father, usually not living with the family, who does not provide money or support to help the mother take care of their children …

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  • 32Deadbeat controller — A deadbeat controller is a classical feedback controller where the control gains are set using a table based on the plant system order and normalized natural frequency.The deadbeat response has the following characteristics: # Zero steady state… …

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  • 33deadbeat dad — noun A man, especially one who is divorced or estranged from his partner, who fails to provide monetary child support when he is legally required to do so. If the 90s offer one villain by consensus, it is the deadbeat dad, that selfish fugitive… …

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  • 34deadbeat galvanometer — aperiodinis galvanometras statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. aperiodical galvanometer; deadbeat galvanometer vok. aperiodisches Galvanometer, n; Kriechgalvanometer, n rus. апериодический гальванометр, m pranc. galvanomètre apériodique, m …

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  • 35deadbeat dad — noun a father who willfully defaults on his obligation to provide financial support for his offspring • Hypernyms: ↑defaulter, ↑deadbeat …

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  • 36deadbeat — I. noun Date: 1863 1. loafer 2. one who persistently fails to pay personal debts or expenses II. adjective Date: circa 1864 having a pointer that gives a reading with little or no oscillation …

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  • 37deadbeat — n. /ded beet /; adj. /ded beet /, n. 1. a person who deliberately avoids paying debts. 2. a loafer; sponger. adj. 3. Horol. noting any of various escapements acting without recoil of the locking parts from the shock of contact. See diag. under… …

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  • 38deadbeat — 1. noun a) a lazy person b) a person who defaults on his debts 2. adjective a) having a damped needle that stops without oscillation …

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  • 39deadbeat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n., slang, sponger. See debt, nonpayment. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bad debtor, parasite, bum; see beggar 1 , debtor , tramp 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. debtor, loafer, *bum, freeloader, parasite …

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  • 40deadbeat — dead|beat [ˈdedbi:t] n 1.) someone who is lazy and has no plans in life 2.) someone who avoids paying their debts …

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