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SELECTIVITY [7 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Environmental Management
DEF

... the ability to target and capture fish by species, size or sex (or combination of these) during harvesting operations, allowing all incidental by-catch to be released.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Gestion environnementale
DEF

[...] capacité de cibler et de capturer le poisson par espèce, taille ou sexe (ou une combinaison de ces paramètres) pendant l'opération de pêche et de relâcher indemne toute prise accidentelle.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Colaboración con la FAO
  • Pesca comercial
  • Gestión del medio ambiente
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Record 2 2016-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weed Science
  • Crop Protection
DEF

That characteristic, especially in many herbicides, whereby certain undesirable species are killed while others such as crop plants or beneficial insects are harmed little.

CONT

... Dinoseb (2-sec-butyl-4,6-dinitrophenol) exhibits contact toxicity to plant foliage, but it exhibits selectivity when applied before emergence; it thus allows satisfactory emergence of some important crop plants, such as peanuts, but kills the germinating seedlings of many annual weeds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mauvaises herbes
  • Protection des végétaux

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Malas hierbas
  • Protección de las plantas
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Record 3 2007-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

The application of a rule, regulation, or trade action to certain parties rather than to all parties universally.

OBS

As contrasted to most-favoured nation treatment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Application d'une règle, d'un règlement, ou d'une mesure commerciale non pas à toutes les parties mais à certaines seulement.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio exterior
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Record 4 2005-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
  • Food Industries
OBS

Selectivity: In a mixture of two components, this is the ratio of the permeabilities of the two components through the membrane.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques industrielles
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
DEF

Propriété d'une membrane désignant son aptitude à retenir les particules d'une certaine dimension (et plus élevée), d'une certaine masse moléculaire (et plus grandes), les molécules d'une certaine nature chimique ou les ions d'une certaine charge.

Spanish

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Record 5 2004-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
DEF

The ability of a receiver to discriminate, by frequency-dependent selection, between a desired signal and co-existent undesired signals at other frequencies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
DEF

Aptitude d'un récepteur à séparer le signal utile d'un signal brouilleur, en utilisant le décalage ou les répartitions différentes de leurs composantes spectrales sur l'échelle des fréquences.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
DEF

Característica de un receptor que determina el grado en el cual él mismo es capaz de diferenciar entre la señal deseada y las señales indeseadas o perturbaciones de frecuencias diferentes.

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Record 6 1998-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
CONT

While the plate theory and the various rate theories of chromatography describe the distribution of a solute in the system, selectivity is a consideration of the relative distributions of two or more solutes in a chromatographic process. The ability of chromatography to separate two solutes depends on the selectivity of the process and the degree to which the system can distinguish thermodynamically between the solutes. Selectivity, then, is simply a measure of the relative retention or relative mobilities of two solutes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique
CONT

La résolution augmente avec le facteur de sélectivité qui mesure les différences de distribution des deux substances entre les deux phases.

OBS

La sélectivité étant fonction des coefficients de distribution des constituants du mélange à analyser, elle peut être modifiée: en changeant la nature et la composition de la phase mobile [...]; en changeant la nature de la phase stationnaire; en modifiant la température.

PHR

sélectivité optimale.

PHR

optimiser la sélectivité.

Spanish

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Record 7 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advertising Media
  • Audiovisual Journalism
OBS

when a product does not require the -- of a magazine, the cost per thousand for reaching a mass audience may be high.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Supports publicitaires
  • Presse audiovisuelle
OBS

l'audience de la presse périodique est très sélective. Cette -- peut être d'autant plus poussée qu'elle est mieux connue par les enquêtes.

Spanish

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