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Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
DEF

Become due for repayment

OBS

These bonds mature in 2005.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
DEF

Devenir dû ou exigible, notamment dans le cas d'une dette ou d'une obligation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Préstamos
  • Derecho de obligaciones (derecho civil)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
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Record 2 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Living Matter - General Properties
DEF

Having attained the fully functional ... stage [and having the capacity to reproduce].

PHR

mature animal, mature female, mature male

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propriétés générales de la matière vivante
DEF

Qui a atteint son plein développement [et qui peut se reproduire].

PHR

femelle mature, mâle mature

PHR

animal adulte

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
DEF

[Said of] soils having well-developed soil characteristics that reflect the zonal influence of climate and living organisms, mainly vegetation, as active factors of soil genesis.

CONT

... kinds of soil could be classified as zonal if their properties reflected the influence of climate and vegetation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
DEF

Se dit d'un sol dont les qualités sont déterminées par le climat et la végétation.

PHR

Sol zonal.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencia del suelo
DEF

[Dícese del] suelo climácico y climático en cuya evolución han predominado fundamentalmente los factores activos de la formación del suelo, es decir, el clima y la vegetación.

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Record 4 2007-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Geology
DEF

Said of a clastic sediment that has been differentiated or evolved from its parent rock by processes acting over a long time and with a high intensity and that is characterized by stable minerals (such as quartz), deficiency of the more mobile oxides (such as soda), absence of weatherable material (such as clay) and well-sorted but subangular to angular grains.

CONT

Most uranium sandstone deposits are in continental sandstones and associated conglomerates that compositionally are immature to submature (i.e., arkosic, lithic, and/or tuffaceous), and texturally are mature (well sorted).

CONT

The Athabasca Group of Saskatchewan-Alberta ... consists of ... east-derived alluvial fanglomerate, siltstone, and diagenetically matured quartzite ... deposited ... in a tectonically active area.

OBS

mature: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géologie
DEF

[En parlant d'une roche sédimentaire], parvenue au terme d'une évolution géomorphologique.

CONT

La plupart des gîtes d'uranium dans des grès se rencontrent dans des grès et des conglomérats associés de milieu continental qui, quant à la composition, varient d'immatures à submatures (c.-à-d.) arkosiques, lithiques ou tufacés) et, quant à la texture, sont matures (bien triés).

OBS

mature : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 5 1998-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
DEF

In even-aged management, those trees or stands that are sufficiently developed to be harvestable and that are at or near rotation age (includes overmature trees and stands for which an overmature class has not been recognized).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture
DEF

En aménagement d'arbres ou de peuplements équiennes, se dit des sujets ayant atteint ou presque l'âge de rotation (comprend les arbres et peuplements surannés en l'absence d'une classe d'arbres surannés).

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance
OBS

contract

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
OBS

contrat

OBS

Lexique de l'assurance-chômage, Emploi et Immigration Canada, 1992.

Spanish

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Record 7 1989-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Cheese and Dairy Products
DEF

To bring to full growth or development, or to ripeness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Laiterie, beurrerie et fromagerie
DEF

Affiner les fromages, en achever la maturation.

OBS

Affinage : Période pendant laquelle les fromages subissent sous l'action des enzymes naturelles et microbiennes des transformations physico-chimiques qui leur confèrent leurs caractéristiques organoleptiques (texture, goût, aspect). La durée et les conditions d'ambiance et les soins diffèrent selon les types de fromages.

Spanish

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Record 8 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
OBS

lysis of the bacterial host takes place with the release of many mature and infective viral particles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
OBS

il existe dans la bactérie infectée, des phages mûrs dès la douzième minute.

Spanish

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Record 9 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
DEF

Having a fully developed profile (United Kingdom, New-Zealand); having clearly developed genetic horizons in equilibrium with the environment (United States).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
DEF

Très nettement différencié de la roche-mère.

Spanish

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