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travelling scholarship

trav ¦el |ling schol ¦ar |ship noun a scholarship given to enable the holder to travel for the purpose of study or research.

 

Oxford Dictionary

travelling

trav ¦el |ling |ˈtravəlɪŋ | adjective (of a device ) sufficiently compact for use on a journey: a travelling clock.

 

travelling crane

trav ¦el |ling crane noun a crane able to move on rails, especially along an overhead support.

 

travelling people

trav ¦el |ling people plural noun people whose lifestyle is nomadic, for example Gypsies (a term typically used by such people of themselves ).

 

travelling salesman

trav ¦el |ling sales |man noun a representative of a firm who visits shops and other businesses to show samples and gain orders.

 

travelling salesman problem

travelling salesman problem noun a mathematical problem in which one has to find which is the shortest route which passes through each of a set of points once and only once.

 

travelling scholarship

trav ¦el |ling schol ¦ar |ship noun a scholarship given to enable the holder to travel for the purpose of study or research.

 

travelling wave

trav ¦el |ling wave noun Physics a wave in which the positions of maximum and minimum amplitude travel through the medium.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

travelling

travelling adjective 1 a survey of the travelling population: nomadic, itinerant, peripatetic, migratory, migrating, wandering, roaming, roving, wayfaring, rambling, touring, drifting, floating, unsettled, restless, on the move, on the go, on the wing; displaced, homeless; gypsy, Romany, tzigane, didicoi; globetrotting, jet-setting; archaic errant. ANTONYMS fixed, settled. 2 a travelling circus: itinerant, peripatetic, moving, mobile. 3 a little travelling clock: portable, mobile, transportable, movable, transferable, easily carried, easy to carry, conveyable, travel, lightweight, compact, handy, convenient, manageable; rare portative. ANTONYMS full-sized.

 

Spanish Dictionary

travelling

travelling travelín . Se pronuncia aproximadamente ‘trávelin ’.