- dead beat
- (Slang.) Noun: A person who does not pay his bills and has no property out of which the bills can be collected under process. Adjective: Exhausted.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
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dead|beat — «DEHD BEET», adjective. 1. making successive beats with intervals of rest and no recoil, as the mechanism of a watch. 2. Physics. stopping with little or no oscillation, as the needle of certain compasses; free from oscillation. dead beat «DEHD… … Useful english dictionary
dead beat — (d[e^]d b[=e]t ), deadbeat dead beat (d[e^]d b[=e]t ). a loafer, sponger, or swindler; especially, one who does not pay his debts. Same as {Beat}, n., 7. [Low, U.S.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
dead-beat — dead beatˈ adjective (informal) Quite overcome, exhausted • • • Main Entry: ↑dead … Useful english dictionary
dead beat — adjective never before noun MAINLY BRITISH INFORMAL extremely tired … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
dead-beat — also dead beat ADJ GRADED: v link ADJ If you are dead beat, you are very tired and have no energy left. [INFORMAL] Syn: shattered … English dictionary
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dead-beat escapement — noun A clock escapement in which there is no recoil to the escape wheel • • • Main Entry: ↑dead … Useful english dictionary
Dead beat control — In discrete time control theory, the dead beat control problem consists of finding what input signal must be applied to a system in order to bring the output to the steady state in the smallest number of time steps. For an Nth order linear system … Wikipedia
dead-beat response — aperiodinis atsakas statusas T sritis automatika atitikmenys: angl. damping transient; dead beat response; overdamped response vok. endliche Ausregelzeit, f; monotoner Übergangsprozeß, m rus. апериодическая реакция, f; апериодический отклик, m… … Automatikos terminų žodynas
dead-beat response — aperiodinis pereinamasis procesas statusas T sritis automatika atitikmenys: angl. damping transient; dead beat response; overdamped response vok. endliche Ausregelzeit, f; monotoner Übergangsprozeß, m rus. апериодическая реакция, f;… … Automatikos terminų žodynas
