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ECB [11 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2022-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)
OBS

Service divisionnaire de la police économique : nom à éviter, car le terme «police économique» est plutôt l'équivalent d'«economic policing».

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Signalling and Illumination (Water Transp.)
  • Urban Housing
  • Submarines (Naval Forces)
OBS

expendable communication buoy; ECB: designations standardized by NATO.

Key term(s)
  • expendable communications buoy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Signalisation (Transport par eau)
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)
  • Sous-marins (Forces navales)
OBS

bouée de télécommunications consommable; ECB : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.

Key term(s)
  • bouée de télécommunication consommable

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atomic Physics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique atomique

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

A control block used to represent the status of an event.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)
OBS

évènement : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 5 2009-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Chemistry
OBS

The European Chemicals Bureau (ECB) is the focal point for data and the assessment procedure on dangerous chemicals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Chimie
OBS

Bureau Européen des Substances Chimiques : l'appellation s'écrit avec les majuscules, ce qui reflète l'usage européen.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Química
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Record 6 2008-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Financial Institutions
OBS

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank for Europe's single currency, the euro. The European Central Bank's main task is to maintain the euro's purchasing power and thus price stability in the euro area.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Institutions financières
OBS

La Banque centrale européenne (BCE) est la banque centrale en charge de la monnaie unique européenne, l'euro. Sa mission principale consiste à maintenir la stabilité des prix au sein de la zone euro et, par conséquent, à préserver le pouvoir d'achat de l'euro.

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Environment
OBS

United Nations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Environnement
OBS

Nations Unies.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Medio ambiente
OBS

Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el medio ambiente.

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Record 8 1999-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
DEF

In cryptography, a DES (Data Encryption Standard] mode of operation in which one or more 64 bit input blocks produce corresponding 64 bit ciphertext blocks by successively presenting the input blocks for encipherment.

Key term(s)
  • ECB mode

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI

Spanish

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Record 9 1997-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux

Spanish

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Record 10 1996-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

of the Federal Centre for AIDS.

Key term(s)
  • External Cooperation Bureau
  • ECB

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
OBS

du Centre fédéral sur le SIDA.

Key term(s)
  • BCE

Spanish

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Record 11 1991-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Asphalts
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
CONT

Geomembranes are manufactured from synthetic (thermoplastic) or bituminous products. Synthetic materials, mostly used in the Netherlands, are high density polyethylene ..., low density polyethylene ..., polyvinylchloride ..., ethylene copolymer bitumen (ECB), and chlorinated polyethylene ...

CONT

Ethylenecopolymer bitumen (ECB). ECB membranes have been developed basically for the roofing industry but are also applied in civil engineering as sealing materials. The raw materials used for ECB are ethylene and bytyl acrylate, together forming 50 to 60%, and a special bitumen, 40 to 50%. These materials are mixed in an extrusion process at a temperature of about 160 °C. The bitumen gives the material a thermoplastic character and also acts as a softener and a light stabilizer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bitumes
  • Mécanique des sols
DEF

Mélange de bitume et d'un copolymère éthylénique (généralement à base d'un ester d'acide acrylique).

Spanish

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