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POINT FIXATION [9 records]

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Record 1 2017-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Servicing and Maintenance (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
CONT

Place the jack under one of the jacking points ...

OBS

jacking point: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien et réparation (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
CONT

Avec le cric de bord. Deux points de fixation de chaque côté du véhicule sont prévus pour placer le cric.

OBS

point d'appui : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
DEF

The anchors (such as chocks, bolts, and pitons) that a climber connects his rope to as he climbs.

CONT

To reduce the distance of a potential fall, the leader attaches pieces of climbers' hardware - called protection - to the rock on the way up. The leader attaches a carabiner to each piece of protection and clips the rope inside the carabiner so the rope is free to be pulled through as the ascent continues.

OBS

"Protection" is a collective term referring to items such as pitons, bolts and nuts; "piece of protection" is used when referring specifically to one of these items.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
DEF

[...] les points fixes [pitons, coinceurs] qui se trouvent entre le premier et le second de cordée et qui doivent être à même d'enrayer une chute du leader.

CONT

La chaîne d'assurage [...] est constituée par la corde, le baudrier, et les divers points d'assurance que l'on place dans le rocher ou la glace et qui servent à stopper une chute.

CONT

Les pointes d'assurance. [...] La cordée peut les trouver en place, ce qui est le cas dans nombre d'itinéraires déjà équipés, ou bien les placer et les retirer elle-même, ce qui est le cas dans la glace.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Visual Disorders
DEF

Object used to attract and control patient's direction of attention during certain diagnostic tests.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Troubles de la vision
OBS

Source : Catalogue de la Société L.C.A., Paris, 1987, page 11.

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orbital Stations
  • Space Exploration Equipment and Tools
CONT

For operations integration of all payloads in each of the accommodation elements they provide, NASA, ESA, the GOJ and RSA will establish element-unique payload operations integration functions to work in accordance with the IDRD and in coordination with the POIC, as provided above.

Key term(s)
  • accommodation elements

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations orbitales
  • Équipement et outillage d'exploration spatiale
DEF

Moyen d'installation de charge utile pour les utilisateurs.

Key term(s)
  • éléments d'installation
  • installations utilisateurs
  • points d'ancrage
  • points de fixation

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe
CONT

Check ... Slat drive assembly front & rear support webs, for cracks & corrosion at attach points to structure ....

OBS

attachment point: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs
OBS

point d'attache; point de fixation : termes acceptés par le Comité d'étude de la terminologie des cartes de travail du DC-9.

OBS

point de fixation : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 6 1992-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Shipbuilding
OBS

As in boiler anchoring.

OBS

Terminology officially approved by the Naval Terminology Standardization Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions navales
OBS

Point de fixation d'une chaudière.

OBS

Terminologie officialisée par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie navale.

Spanish

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Record 7 1986-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Containers

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conteneurs
OBS

point de fixation : terme uniformisé par le CN.

Spanish

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Record 8 1981-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Market Prices
  • Collective Agreements and Bargaining

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prix (Commercialisation)
  • Conventions collectives et négociations
OBS

des échelles salariales, des prix.

Spanish

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Record 9 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
  • Waterproofing (Construction)
OBS

shingle tabs shall be secured by a 1-in.-diameter -- of plastic cement under the centre of each tab, or by approved interlocking devices or selfsealing strips.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
  • Étanchéité (Construction)
OBS

(...) interposer au recouvrement transversal un boudin de mastic bitumineux; et (...) prévoir deux -- aux pannes supportant les recouvrements, afin d'assurer un serrage convenable du mastic.

Spanish

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