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PROPORTIONALITY [3 records]

Record 1 2019-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Defence Planning and Military Doctrine
DEF

The relationship between the expected collateral damage and the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated from the engagement.

OBS

proportionality: designation and definition officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel and by the Defence Terminology Standardization Board.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrine militaire et planification de défense
DEF

Corrélation entre les dommages collatéraux prévus et l'avantage militaire direct et concret attendu découlant de l'engagement.

OBS

proportionnalité : désignation et définition uniformisées par le Groupe d'experts en terminologie interarmées et par le Conseil de normalisation de terminologie de la défense.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Control
  • Financial and Budgetary Management

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contrôle de gestion
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
DEF

Principe de mise en œuvre de contrôles, selon lequel les coûts de ces contrôles doivent être proportionnés aux coûts des risques qu'ils visent.

Spanish

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Record 3 1993-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atomic Physics
OBS

One of the particle detector characteristics. - When the magnitude of the electrical signal is proportional to the energy loss by the particle in the detector, the counter is said to be proportional in its characteristics. Scintillation counters are proportional, but Geiger-Muller counters are not; McGraw Hill IX/659.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique atomique

Spanish

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