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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2022-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
DEF

In identification, [refers] to an evaluated track, object or entity that has not been identified.

OBS

unknown; unk: designations officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

OBS

unknown: designation standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)
DEF

En identification, [se dit d'une] piste, [d'un] objet ou [d'une] entité qui, bien qu'ayant été évalué, n'a pas été identifié.

OBS

inconnu; inc : désignations uniformisées par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

OBS

inconnu : désignation normalisée par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Training
  • Air Materiel Maintenance
DEF

Maintenance instructions developed during type certification that are necessary to keep an aeronautical product in a condition that is fit and safe for flight.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruction du personnel militaire
  • Maintenance du matériel de l'air

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
OBS

At a blacksmith's, the iron block on which the blacksmith hammers out the horseshoes is called an anvil. In weather, mature thunderstorm clouds extend so far up into the atmosphere that high-level winds cause the tops of the clouds to spread out in the shape of an anvil.

OBS

The term "incus" is the technical term used in the International Cloud Atlas; the other terms are popular terms.

OBS

Maccabeus' tree: English equivalent of "arbre des Macchabées" which is a name given in the East of France to the "incus" of a Cumulonimbus.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
OBS

La masse de fer sur laquelle le forgeron façonne les fers à cheval s'appelle enclume. En météorologie, les nuages orageux évolués s'étendent si haut dans l'atmosphère que les vents à haute altitude étalent le sommet des nuages, en leur donnant la forme d'une enclume.

OBS

Le terme technique retenu par l'Organisation mondiale de la météorologie est «incus»; les autres sont des termes de la langue courante.

OBS

arbre des Macchabées : Nom donné dans l'est de la France à l'enclume des Cumulonimbus.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fenómenos meteorológicos, climáticos y atmosféricos
DEF

Parte superior de un Cumulonimbus extendida en forma de un yunque de aspecto liso, fibroso o estriado.

Key term(s)
  • nube en yunque
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Record 4 1999-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Taxation
Key term(s)
  • net tax payer investment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Fiscalité

Spanish

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