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TWINNING [8 records]

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Record 1 2020-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fashion and Styles (Clothing)
DEF

The practice of intentionally coordinating an outfit with another person.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mode

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
  • Gemmology
DEF

A phenomenon in the formation of crystals whereby one crystal gives rise to two coupled or overlapping crystals known as twins, most often growing from a common face. These become symmetrical and the two crystals resume a single growth pattern.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
  • Gemmologie
DEF

Phénomène apparaissant dans la formation des cristaux et donnant naissance au sein du même cristal à deux individus (dits macles) accolés ou imbriqués et qui présentent le plus souvent une face commune de croissance. Une opération de symétrie ramène les deux individus à un modèle de croissance unique.

CONT

Formation de macles dans un réseau cristallin.

Key term(s)
  • formation de macle

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gemmology
  • Diamond Industry
DEF

A characteristic of some rough diamonds; two crystals that are bonded along a seam and rotated 60° to one another; inclusions are normally trapped along the seam; also referred to as twinning.

CONT

Crystal distorted at the atomic level early in its growth as a result of changes in the orientation of atoms; as atoms continue to attach themselves to the re-oriented segment, another crystal begins to form, intergrown with the first. Twin crystals can be made up of two or more such intergrown crystals holding planes of atoms in common.

CONT

Seam line along which twinned crystal is formed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gemmologie
  • Industrie diamantaire
CONT

Jonction le long de laquelle le cristal maclé est formé.

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Municipal Administration
  • Urban Studies
  • Tourist Lodging
DEF

Establishment of a sister city or twin as when the leaders of one city establish a special relationship with a city in some other country. A stimulus to tourism as well as general goodwill as often festivals, exhibits and tour groups are exchanged.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration municipale
  • Urbanisme
  • Hébergement (Tourisme)
DEF

Coutume consistant à déclarer jumelles deux villes situées dans deux pays différents, afin de susciter entre elles des échanges.

CONT

Jumelage de Paris et de Rome.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Administración municipal
  • Urbanismo
  • Alojamiento (Turismo)
CONT

Asimismo se podría asociar a la Universidad Quisqueya de Port-au-Prince a través de la red ENVIL, además de las ciudades de Tolosa, Burdeos y Montreal, que realizan actividades de hermanamiento con Port-au-Prince.

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Record 5 1998-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
OBS

Twinning may refer to the pairing of two educational institutions or to the pairing of two cities (e.g. a Canadian city with a European city).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
DEF

Action d'associer deux établissements d'enseignement, deux classes ou deux élèves de pays ou de région différentes en vue de procéder à des échanges.

OBS

Terme recommandé par l'Office de la langue française.

OBS

Il ne faut pas confondre jumelage et échange d'élèves; le jumelage peut donner lieu à des échanges de correspondance, de documents ou d'élèves.

OBS

Ne pas confondre appariement et jumelage.

Spanish

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Record 6 1997-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metallography
DEF

A term used in reference to the special form of slip which may occur in the plastic deformation of metals. It can occur by movement in the same direction on a number of adjacent slip planes in which the distance moved by atoms on each successive plane is greater, by a constant amount, than on the previous plane.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Métallographie
OBS

macle : Assemblage régulier de deux ou plusieurs individus cristallins de même nature (...) Les macles peuvent être produites par une action mécanique.

Spanish

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Record 7 1996-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Semiconductors (Electronics)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Semi-conducteurs (Électronique)
OBS

Se dit des cristaux.

Spanish

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Record 8 1982-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Civil Engineering

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie civil
OBS

élargissement à quatre voies de la Transcanadienne dans le parc national de Banff.

Spanish

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