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Record 1 2009-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Finance
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance
CONT

Conditional payment is where the debt may afterwards revive if the mode of payment does not result in actual payment, as where a creditor is paid by a cheque or bill which is afterwards dishonoured ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Finances
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
OBS

Conditionnel - Qui dépend de certaines conditions, d'évènements incertains.

Spanish

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Record 2 1989-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
  • Security Posters and Signs
  • Occupational Health and Safety

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
  • Affichage de sécurité
  • Santé et sécurité au travail

Spanish

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Record 3 1993-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Laws and Regulations
OBS

Fisheries Act, revokes the Contaminated Fisheries Prohibition Order No. PCH-1991-1, issued on January 22, 1991

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements
OBS

Loi sur les pêches, abroge l'Ordonnance n° PCH-1991-1 interdisant la pêche du poisson contaminé, prise le 22 janvier 1991.

Spanish

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Record 4 - external organization data 2016-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Key term(s)
  • Foreign Security Inspection Programme

French

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

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
DEF

... the unplanned growth of a population of non-native species, usually considered detrimental.

CONT

Invasive species may cause severe economic losses. Thus the hot debate regarding the ecological mechanisms determining the outcome of biological invasions is of equal interest to scientific and business communities.

OBS

invasion : The spread of a plant or animal population into an area formerly free of the species concerned.

Key term(s)
  • bioinvasion
  • bio invasion

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
CONT

Une invasion biologique peut se définir comme la conséquence du développement, au détriment d'espèces locales, d'un organisme quel qu'il soit après son introduction volontaire ou non dans un habitat qui n'est pas son habitat d'origine.

CONT

Les invasions biologiques ont connu une explosion pendant les derniers siècles [...]

Key term(s)
  • bioinvasion
  • bio invasion

Spanish

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Record 6 1986-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
  • Airport Runways and Areas
DEF

Line from the turning centre perpendicular to the aircraft longitudinal axis.

Key term(s)
  • center line through main undercarriage
  • centreline through main undercarriage
  • centerline through main undercarriage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
  • Pistes et aires d'aéroport
DEF

Perpendiculaire abaissée du pivot sur l'axe longitudinal de l'avion.

Spanish

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Record 7 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Civil Engineering
  • Urban Studies

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie civil
  • Urbanisme

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
DEF

The anterior of the two major subdivisions of the rhombencephalon (the posterior being the myelencephalon or medulla oblongata), composed of the pons and the cerebellum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
DEF

Partie du cerveau dérivée de la partie antérieure de la vésicule postérieure et donnant la protubérance annulaire et le cervelet.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistema nervioso
CONT

Durante la cuarta semana, después del cierre de los neuroporos, el extremo cefálico del tubo neural craneal al cuarto par de somitos se dilata considerablemente y aparecen las tres vesículas encefálicas primarias a partir de las cuales se origina el encéfalo: Prosencéfalo (cerebro anterior), mesencéfalo (cerebro medio) y rombencéfalo (cerebro posterior). Durante la quinta semana el prosencéfalo y rombencéfalo se dividen en dos vesículas secundarias: El prosencéfalo origina (1) el telencéfalo (cerebro terminal) [y] (2) el diencéfalo. […] El rombencéfalo formará finalmente (1) el metencéfalo, que constituirá la protuberancia y el cerebelo (2) el mielencéfalo, el futuro bulbo raquídeo. El límite metencéfalo-mielencéfalo queda definido por el pliegue protuberancial.

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Record 9 1999-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
DEF

An account opened upon prior agreement with a customer in which no funds are kept and which exists to allow the customer to issue cheques. The drawee bank agrees to transfer funds from another account to cover the cheques, thus restoring the account balance to zero.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Operaciones bancarias
DEF

Tipo de cuenta que permite a su titular extender cheques que el banco paga transfiriendo fondos de otras cuentas que el cliente posee en el mismo banco.

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Record 10 1998-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

Terme et équivalent extraits du Lexique du CF-18 de Canadair.

Spanish

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