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double touch [2 records]

Record 1 2001-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Volleyball
DEF

A player making successive (non-simultaneous) contacts of the ball with any parts of his body ...

CONT

Each team is allowed to contact the ball a maximum of three times before returning it to the opposite court, but any one individual may not touch, or be touched by it, twice in succession (a "double hit"), and the ball must always be played cleanly by the hands, with no suggestion of holding ("held ball"), lifting, or carrying.

OBS

The double hit is considered an illegal move.

Key term(s)
  • double contact

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volleyball
DEF

Un joueur touchant la balle plus d'une fois à l'aide de n'importe quelle partie du corps sans qu'aucun autre joueur ne l'ait entre-temps touchée [...]

OBS

Le doublé est une infraction aux règles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vóleibol
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Record 2 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
OBS

pressing the manual or pedal key much harder than usual forces it beyond the first point of resistance and carries it down to a second and lower point, called --or --.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
OBS

--mécanisme donnant une sensibilité artificielle.

Spanish

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