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CHAMBRE ASPIRATION [5 records]

Record 1 2012-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postal Service Operation
  • Postage Stamps and Stamp Cancelling
  • Machinery
OBS

pick-off chamber; suction chamber: terms officially approved by the Postal Mechanization Terminology Standardization Committee

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation postale
  • Timbres et oblitération
  • Machines
OBS

chambre d'aspiration : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie de la mécanisation postale.

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grain Growing
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
OBS

A part of the impact aspirator for wheat cleaning.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des céréales
  • Minoterie et céréales
OBS

Partie intégrante de l'aspirateur à percussion qui sert au nettoyage du blé dur.

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Prosthetic Dentistry
DEF

A recess in the palate of the upper denture whose object is to retain the denture by a partial vaccum.

OBS

Seldom used in present day prosthesis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dentisterie prothétique

Spanish

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Record 4 1985-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diesel Motors
  • Fueling Systems (Motor Vehicles)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteurs diesel
  • Alimentation (Véhicules automobiles)
OBS

Elément de la pompe mécanique d'injection dans un moteur Diesel.

Spanish

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Record 5 1977-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

Erikson (1934) and Stormer (1939) have suggested that a "sucking chamber" could have been formed between the pleurae and the overlapping pre-epipodites [of a trilobite,] water being forced into the chamber by a downward movement of the pre-epipodites and expelled through the gill blades by an upward movement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

L'espace compris entre la frange et les plèvres [d'un Trilobite] aurait joué le rôle de "chambre d'aspiration" pour l'eau qui pénétrait soit entre les sympodites, soit le long du bord externe des expodites et ressortait dans les intervalles des lamelles comme entre les fanons d'un Cétacé.

Spanish

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