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EQUATOR [4 records]

Record 1 2018-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Egg Industry
CONT

Eggshell thickness in eggs equator and poles was different, in all species eggs equator were significatively thicker ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeufs (Industrie de l'alimentation)
CONT

La coquille est plus épaisse au niveau de l’équateur de l’œuf que des pôles [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Equipment
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment
  • Biochemistry
OBS

Term(s) taken from a Canadian laboratory-equipment company's catalogue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel et équipement (Recherche scientifique)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical
  • Biochimie
OBS

Terme(s) tiré(s) du catalogue d'une compagnie canadienne d'équipement de laboratoire.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Planets
  • Astronomy
  • Mathematical Geography
  • Cartography
DEF

The great circle on the Earth's surface that is everywhere equally distant from the two poles and whose plane is perpendicular to the Earth's axis of rotation, that divides the Earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres, and that is the line from which latitudes are reckoned, its own latitude being everywhere zero degrees.

OBS

It is the largest of the parallels of latitude, having a length on the Earth's surface of 40,075.76 km ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planètes
  • Astronomie
  • Géographie mathématique
  • Cartographie
DEF

Grand cercle d'une sphère dont le plan est perpendiculaire à la ligne des pôles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Planetas
  • Astronomía
  • Geografía matemática
  • Cartografía
DEF

Círculo máximo de la esfera celeste [...].

CONT

En razón del achatamiento del globo terrestre, el ecuador es el mayor de todos los círculos máximos del planeta. El ecuador terrestre sirve de fundamento para definir las coordenadas geográficas: la latitud y la longitud.

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Record 4 1993-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Eye
CONT

The edges of the capsulorrhexis... demonstrate that the (presumably superior) nuclear equator... has rotated 90 degrees within the softer cortical material. The thin posterior capsule does not show well at this magnification but is intact ... (In Ophthalmology 1991, vol. 98, p. 624.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeil
CONT

Extraction du cortex cristallinien - (...) La quantité des masses restantes est fonction de (...) l'état du cortex : cataractes totales : masses faciles à extraire, même si elles sont en quantité importante; - cataractes subtotales : masses adhérentes entre elles et à l'équateur.

Spanish

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