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ENTASSEMENT [6 records]

Record 1 2002-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Land Forces

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forces terrestres
OBS

entassement : terme uniformisé par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vocabulario técnico y científico general
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Record 3 1994-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Mathematics
DEF

A family of sets in the plane which has no overlaps. ...

OBS

Different aspects of packing are involved in solving the Kakeya (1917) problem (finding the area of the smallest convex set inside which a unit segment can be reversed), the Mastrand (1979) problem (what(are) the minimal comfortable living quarters for a unit worm?), and Cummingham's bird (1976).

OBS

See gasket, worm problem, Apollonian packing.

PHR

Osculatory packing, curve packing, curved-arcs packing, packings sphere.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Mathématiques
DEF

Empilement de boules, deux à deux disjointes, qui couvre, ou remplit, une partie d'un espace métrique.

OBS

Concept intégré à la solution du problème de Kakeya (1917), du problème de Besicovitch-Rado (1968), du problème de Mastrand (1979) et du problème "oiseau de Cummingham (1976). La dimension d'entassement (Claude Tricot) combine la capacité de Kolmogorov et la dimension de Hausdorff. Le néologisme "bourrage" est proposé par B. Mandelbrot.

Spanish

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Record 4 1993-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 5 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Demography

French

Domaine(s)
  • Démographie

Spanish

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Record 6 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
  • Quarries
OBS

(mines)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
  • Carrières
OBS

lit de pierre dans une veine de minerai

Spanish

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