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Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

cape chisel: an item in the "Metalworking Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Materials" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

bédane; burin en pointe : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement du travail des métaux» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour le traitement des matières».

Spanish

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Record 2 1997-11-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Management Operations (General)
OBS

UNICEF [United Nations Children's Fund]; merging of the Office of Administrative Management and the Division of Financial Management.

Key term(s)
  • Division of Administrative and Financial Management

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
Key term(s)
  • Division de la gestion administrative et financière

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos, unidades administrativas y comités
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
  • Operaciones de la gestión (Generalidades)
Key term(s)
  • División de Gestión Administrativa y Financiera
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Record 3 2002-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
DEF

Marché où sont cotées les options d'achat et de vente.

CONT

Un nouveau sigle fera son apparition dans un peu plus d'un mois à la Bourse de Paris : le MON, marché d'options négociables, qui devrait ouvrir ses portes le 23 juin (1987). Le Nouvel Économiste, no 592, 15.05.1987, p. 122.

Spanish

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Record 4 1997-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coins and Bank Notes
  • Numismatics
  • Coining
DEF

The impression of either an unfinished or of a completed die, in a soft metal, in order to test that die. The blank used in the trial can be of any size or shape, and is usually struck on one side only, creating a uniface specimen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pièces de monnaie et billets de banque
  • Numismatique
  • Monnayage

Spanish

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Record 5 1997-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postal Service Operation
Key term(s)
  • agency service

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation postale
OBS

Source(s) : Traducteurs de l'UPU [Union postale universelle].

Key term(s)
  • service pour le compte de tiers

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Forms
  • Business and Administrative Documents
OBS

Publication number T653 of Revenue Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de formulaires administratifs
  • Écrits commerciaux et administratifs
OBS

Publication numéro T653 de Revenu Canada.

Spanish

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Record 7 2005-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Corporate Security
OBS

Name changed in 1961 from Industrial Security Association of Canada.

OBS

The name was supposed to change in April 1992 to Canadian Security Council/Conseil canadien de la sûreté, but the Canada Safety Council/Conseil canadien de la sécurité objected to that because it could have created too much confusion.

OBS

Information confirmed by the organization.

Key term(s)
  • Canadian Security Council

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Sécurité générale de l'entreprise
OBS

Nom changé en 1961 de l'Association de la sécurité industrielle du Canada.

OBS

Information confirmée par l'organisme.

Key term(s)
  • Conseil canadien de la sûreté

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Law of Evidence
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The principal varieties of explanatory evidence are ... evidence of surrounding or collateral circumstances, as where evidence is given of the state of a testator's family, in order to explain the provisions of his will.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
DEF

Preuve exégétique fondée sur les circonstances particulières entourant la rédaction du document.

Spanish

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Record 9 2016-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Types of Documentation (Library Science)
OBS

This collection is one of the only e-collections specialized for the needs of agronomists and crop scientists. It includes installments from the acclaimed series Genetics Resources, Chromosomes Engineering, and Crop Improvement, along with detailed studies on individual crops, horticultural methods, soil fertility, crop security, and agroforestry.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Documentation (Bibliothéconomie)

Spanish

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Record 10 2015-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Jewellery
  • Funeral Services
DEF

An advanced chemical process used to turn cremated human remains into diamonds that can be worn as jewelry.

OBS

... a Swiss company ... will compress and super-heat ... cremated ashes and turn them into a man-made diamond that can be worn and cherished. It all begins with chemical process that extracts the carbon from the departed’s ashes. This carbon is then heated to convert it into graphite. That graphite is then heated to as many as 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit and subjected to forces as high as 870,000 pounds per square inch. The color of the finished diamond, which can range from white to dark blue, depends on the boron content of the ashes of the deceased.

Key term(s)
  • diamondisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Joaillerie et bijouterie
  • Pompes funèbres
CONT

Transformer les cendres en diamant - Depuis quelques années quelques sociétés britanniques, allemandes ou américaines proposent de transformer les cendres funéraires en diamant synthétique. Cette «diamantisation», interdite en France par la loi qui protège l’usage des cendres, avec un coût de quelques milliers d’euros, permettrait de porter les cendres du défunt en bague ou en pendentif.

Spanish

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