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Record 1 - external organization data 2019-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
DEF

Layer adjacent to the Earth's surface which is mixed by convection or frictionally-induced turbulence or both.

CONT

Mixing depth. The thickness of the atmospheric layer near the surface in which air pollutants are dispersed by turbulence. At the top of the mixing layer a barrier to the dispersion is often formed by a temperature inversion.

OBS

mixed layer ... sometimes called convective mixed layer, convective boundary layer, or mixing layer in air-pollution meteorology. ... The terms mixed layer, convective mixed layer, and convective boundary layer commonly imply only the buoyantly stirred layer.

Key term(s)
  • atmospheric mixed layer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
DEF

Couche adjacente à la surface terrestre, mélangée par la convection ou par la turbulence due au frottement ou par leur effet combiné.

CONT

[Ce modèle] se caractérise en particulier par la prise en compte non plus d'un certain nombre de couches arbitrairement désignées, mais par la caractérisation de trois couches ayant une existence physique : une couche de surface, comprise entre le sol et la couche de mélange et dans laquelle existent des phénomènes tels que dépôt sec, qui affectent le profil vertical des polluants - une couche de mélange s'étendant jusqu'à la couche d'inversion - une couche d'inversion au-dessus de la couche de mélange.

OBS

Il existe aussi une notion semblable à celle de la couche de mélange en hydrologie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Física de la atmósfera
DEF

Capa próxima a la superficie de la Tierra que está mezclada por convección y/o por turbulencia inducida por el rozamiento.

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Record 3 2011-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
CONT

Current knowledge about the spatial variation of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on a local scale is limited, especially for vegetation with a low canopy.

CONT

Pooling termite data from these sampling dates, in the old plantation, the high canopy cover treatment (192 stems ha-1) had a greater abundance of termites, compared with the low canopy cover treatment (64 stems ha-1).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture
CONT

Tourbières et lande : Végétation avec un couvert forestier bas et fermé, dominé par de la brousse, des arbustes et des plantes herbacées (landes, églantiers, genêt, ajonc, etc.).

OBS

lisière à couronnes basses : Proposition de notre client au ministère de l'Agriculture du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Equipment (Agriculture)
CONT

The air reel is designed to support and direct the crop during the cutting process and subsequent transfer to the header auger or belt.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines de récolte (Agriculture)

Spanish

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Record 5 1997-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) Standards
  • Packaging
OBS

43-GP-104a.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Normes de l'Office des normes générales du Canada (ONGC)
  • Emballages
OBS

43-GP-104a.

Spanish

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Record 6 2019-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Service Industries
  • Explosives and Pyrotechnical Materials (Industries)
  • Blasting (Construction)
CONT

Explosives will be supplied by a blasting contractor and all permits related to the storage and use of explosives related to the project will be obtained by the selected contractor through Natural Resources Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entreprises de services
  • Explosifs et artifices (Industries)
  • Dynamitage (Construction)
CONT

Les explosifs seront fournis par un entrepreneur en dynamitage; les permis liés au stockage et à l'utilisation d'explosifs en lien avec le projet seront obtenus par l'entrepreneur choisi auprès de Ressources naturelles Canada.

Spanish

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Record 7 2022-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Knitted and Stretch Fabrics
  • Knitting Techniques - Various
DEF

The yarn portion ... that connects two adjacent needle loops belonging to the same knitted course.

OBS

In warp knitting, sinker loops are formed only when double-needle overlaps ... are made ...

OBS

Not to be confused with the underlap.

OBS

sinker loop: designation and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tricot et tissus extensibles
  • Techniques de tricot diverses
DEF

Portion de fil [...] joignant deux boucles d'aiguille adjacentes appartenant à la même rangée [...]

OBS

En tricotage à mailles jetées, des boucles d'entre-mailles sont formées seulement en cas de jeté sur deux aiguilles [...]

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec la jetée-sous.

OBS

boucle d'entre-mailles; boucle d'abattage : désignations et définition normalisées par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 8 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
DEF

Separation of relatively light (floats) and heavy ore particles (sinks), by immersion in a bath of intermediate density. This is the dense or heavy media, a finely ground slurry of appropriate heavy material in water.

OBS

for "sink-and-float" : ... notably used for separation of sinking shale from floating coal in a slurry of intermediate density.

Key term(s)
  • heavy-fluid separation
  • heavy fluids separation
  • sink and float concentration
  • heavy media concentration
  • heavy medium concentration
  • dense media concentration
  • dense medium concentration

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
DEF

Mode de concentration d'un matériau utilisant la propriété des solides de flotter à la surface d'un liquide, d'une solution ou d'une suspension de masse volumique supérieure à la leur, et de plonger dans un liquide, une solution ou une suspension de masse volumique inférieure.

Key term(s)
  • séparation par suspension dense
  • séparation par flottants et plongeants
  • séparation par liquide dense
  • séparation par liqueur dense

Spanish

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Record 9 1990-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bankruptcy
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Faillites
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)

Spanish

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Record 10 2022-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
Universal entry(ies)
Altica probata
Latin
OBS

An insect (order Coleoptera) of the family Chrysomelidae.

Key term(s)
  • proven fleabeetle

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Altica probata
Latin
OBS

Insecte (ordre des coléoptères) de la famille des Chrysomelidae.

Spanish

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