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booster station [7 records]

Record 1 2005-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Table Service (Restaurants)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Service des tables (Restauration)
DEF

Meuble situé au centre de la salle de restaurant, ou près d'un rang, où sont rangés les accessoires pour le service de la table et sur lequel on pose les plateaux «en transit» entre la cuisine et la table du client; peut être muni de plaques chauffantes ou d'une armoire réfrigérée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Servicio de mesas (Restaurantes)
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Record 2 2001-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transport of Oil and Natural Gas
DEF

An installation near a pipeline whose function is to receive oil through a main pipeline and transmit it to the next station.

OBS

It receives no oil from any other sources, nor does it have a tank farm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport du pétrole et du gaz naturel

Spanish

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Record 3 1995-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compressors

French

Domaine(s)
  • Compresseurs
DEF

Station de compression auxiliaire placée sur la canalisation afin de maintenir la pression nécessaire au déplacement du fluide transporté.

Spanish

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Record 4 1987-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications

Spanish

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Record 5 1987-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
  • Radio Broadcasting
DEF

a station licensed to transmit, from points where wire facilities are not available, programs for broadcast by one or more broadcast station.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
  • Radiodiffusion
DEF

station qui reçoit d'un émetteur un signal quelconque et qui l'achemine, après amplification, vers un autre émetteur ou une autre station de même nature.

Spanish

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Record 6 1986-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pumps
  • Water Distribution (Water Supply)
DEF

A pumping station in a water distribution system that is used to increase the pressure in the mains on the discharge side of the pumps; also a station at which pumps from low level or ground storage to distribution system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pompes
  • Distribution de l'eau
DEF

Dans un réseau de distribution, poste de pompage utilisé pour augmenter la pression dans les conduites.

Spanish

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Record 7 1980-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Facilities
  • Spacecraft
DEF

A station which rebroadcasts a transmission received directly on the same wavelength.

CONT

Active satellites, on the other hand, are "booster" or repeater stations - they receive signals from ground stations, amplify them, and retransmit them to other ground stations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations de télécommunications
  • Engins spatiaux
CONT

Les satellites actifs, en revanche, sont des réémetteurs ou répéteurs - ils reçoivent des signaux provenant de stations terrestres, les amplifient et les retransmettent vers d'autres stations terrestres.

Spanish

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