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dispozitiv
device /dispoziˈtiv/
noun#1704 most common
Also: apparatus, mechanism, deployment (security or military detail)
Example sentences
Acesta este un dispozitiv nou.
This is a new device.
Am cumpărat un dispozitiv pentru curățat geamuri.
I bought a device for cleaning windows.
Dispozitivul meu mobil s-a descărcat repede.
My mobile device ran out of battery quickly.
Tehnicienii au instalat un dispozitiv de securitate la intrare.
The technicians installed a security device at the entrance.
Poliția a organizat un dispozitiv de pază în jurul stadionului.
The police set up a security deployment around the stadium.
Dispozitivul experimental permite măsurarea precisă a câmpurilor magnetice la scară nanometrică.
The experimental device allows precise measurement of magnetic fields at the nanometer scale.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dispozitiv | dispozitive |
| Genitive | dispozitivului | dispozitivelor |
| Accusative | dispozitiv | dispozitive |
| Vocative | dispozitivule | dispozitivelor |
Word family
dispuneto arrange; to have at one's disposal; to orderdispozițiedisposition, mood, or an official order
indispusunwell, out of sorts
dispozitivdevice, apparatusEtymology
Romanian borrowed "dispozitiv" from French "dispositif" in the 19th century, during the wave of modernization that brought many French technical and administrative terms into Romanian. The French word traces to Latin "dispositus," the past participle of "disponere," meaning to arrange or set in order. That verb combines the prefix "dis-" (apart, in different directions) with "ponere" (to place, put).
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