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GORE [7 records]

Record 1 2016-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
OBS

A village in the center of Nova Scotia, northwest of Halifax.

OBS

Coordinates: 45° 7' 4" N, 63° 44' 12" W (Nova Scotia).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Village dans le centre de la Nouvelle-Écosse, au nord-ouest d'Halifax.

OBS

Coordonnées : 45° 7' 4" N, 63° 44' 12" O (Nouvelle-Écosse).

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
  • Skydiving, Paragliding and Hang Gliding
CONT

The material between any two suspension lines is called a gore. There are 28 gores in a 28 foot canopy. Each gore is composed of four sections ...

CONT

When you reach the lower peripheral band, pull your hands apart until there is one gore's width between them. This will expose the top centre gore (the master gore - lines 1 and 28) ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
CONT

L'élément essentiel du parachute est la voilure, elle est fabriquée en assemblant les fuseaux (bandes prédécoupées qui sont cousues selon une disposition donnée). De leur forme et de la façon de les placer les uns par rapport aux autres dépend la géométrie de la voilure et ses performances. Les configurations de base sont nombreuses: hémisphérique (Garnerin, 1797), carrée (Froidure, 1922) plate (Irvin, 1923), triangulaire (Smith, 1924), parabolique (Russell, 1926), conique (1944), triconique (1967), cruciforme, annulaire, multicoupole, etc.

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Footwear and Shoe Repair

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chaussures et cordonnerie
DEF

Pièce de tissu élastique pouvant se trouver à plusieurs endroits sur le soulier et lui permettant de faciliter l'entrée du pied, de s'y ajuster pour mieux assujettir la chaussure.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cartography
DEF

One of the series of related and triangular or luneshaped sections (pieces of paper or thin cards) of a map or chart, usually bounded by meridians and tapering to the poles, applied to the surface of a sphere (with a negligible amount of distortion) to form a globe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cartographie
DEF

Zone délimitée par deux méridiens.

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Aircraft
CONT

A gore is limited by two vertical tapes (from the top to the mouth) and is bulging when the balloon is inflated. A balloon can have, for instance, 24 gores or large vertical sections.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types d'aéronefs

Spanish

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Record 6 1987-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Geography (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie physique (Généralités)
OBS

(DORS 54-629, p. 2587)

Spanish

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Record 7 1986-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Real Estate

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immobilier
DEF

Se dit d'un terrain ajouté à l'une des extrémités d'une propriété foncière.

Spanish

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