The main type of tactical action, it involves an organized armed encounter between tactical formations, units, ships, aircraft and subunits of the warring parties. This consists of attacks, fire and maneuver coordinated in terms of objective, time and place. The purpose of a tactical operation is to destroy or rout the enemy or to accomplish other missions limited in time and area. The battle may be combined arms, air defense, air or naval. Forces take up their combat deployment for action. See also operation.

adverb (prefixed to a comparative means "thereby" or 'by so much', e.g. What student is the better for mastering these futile distinctions? This combination can enter into the further construction seen in The more the merrier (i.e. 'by how much more, by that much merrier'). It cannot enter into a construction with than: the tendency to insert it before more and less (putting any the more, none the less for anymore, no less) should be resisted, e.g. in The intellectual release had been no less (not one the less) marked than the physical. - The Oxford Guide to English Usage Alexander Demidov)

abbr., slang

teh (использование слова teh вместо the указывает на несерьёзность сказанного Adrax)

The [θi:] abbr.

abbr., org.name.

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action
comp., MS	azione
cultur. industr. construct.	materiale sonoro


main type
med.	tipo principale


of
gen.	di


tactical
gen.	tattico; intra-teatro; in teatro


it
gen.	la