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FLOATING PLATFORM [1 record]

Record 1 2006-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Civil Engineering
  • Oil Drilling
  • Airfields
CONT

Floating platforms are held on location by conventional anchors or by an automatically controlled propulsion system and have ... the advantage of being suitable for drilling even in thousands of feet of water.

CONT

Huge floating platforms could be used as aircraft carriers, airports, or simply as additional land in overcrowded coastal cities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie civil
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Aérodromes
DEF

[Plate-forme] constituée par un ponton muni de flotteurs verticaux et horizontaux [...] coulée sur le fond de la mer [ou] maintenue en semi-flottation [par] un système complexe d'ancrage.

CONT

Le retour de boue jusqu'en surface est assuré par un tube goulotte (ou «riser») [...] composé d'un raccord flexible au pied et d'un raccord coulissant au sommet pour tolérer tous les mouvements divers de la plate-forme flottante.

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme flottante

Spanish

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