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SELF-PERPETUATING [2 records]

Record 1 1992-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
  • Cytology
CONT

A living cell is a self-assembling, self-adjusting, self-perpetuating isothermal system of organic molecules which extracts free energy and raw material from its environment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
  • Cytologie
CONT

(...) une cellule vivante est un système isotherme formé de molécules organiques auto-assemblées, auto-ajustées, autoperpétuées, qui extrait de l'énergie libre et du matériel brut de son environnement (...)

Spanish

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Record 2 1985-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
CONT

(...), je peux m'abandonner à la griserie des mille détours du récit, me laisser emporter par le vertige de l'implication dans un processus fatal d'auto-engendrement (ce qui est peut-être la définition même du plaisir de la fiction). (Christian Simmer, "Qui a peur d'Alfred ?", Le Monde, 9.9.84.)

Spanish

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