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Record 1 1987-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Education

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Pédagogie

Spanish

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Record 2 1988-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Position and Functional Titles (Armed Forces)
OBS

Term and abbreviated form officially approved by the Department of National Defence.

Key term(s)
  • Senior Staff Officer - Staffing Civ Pers
  • Senior Staff Officer - Staffing Civilian Personnel

French

Domaine(s)
  • Postes et fonctions (Forces armées)
OBS

Forme abrégée et terme officialisés par le ministère de la Défense nationale.

Key term(s)
  • Agent administratif supérieur - Dotation Personnel Civil

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Provincial Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
OBS

Ministry of the Attorney General.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
OBS

Ministère du Procureur général.

Spanish

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Record 4 2019-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • IT Security
CONT

A file virus infects executables, usually EXE files, by inserting special code into some part of the original file so that the malicious data can be executed when the file is accessed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Les virus se décomposent en deux grandes catégories : les virus systèmes dont le secteur de contamination est exclusivement le secteur de démarrage («boot») des supports, [et] les virus programmes dont le secteur de contamination principal est constitué par les programmes exécutables. [Reproduit avec l'autorisation de l'AFNOR.]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
  • Seguridad de IT
CONT

Los virus de programa son los que contagian ficheros ejecutables (extensión EXE, COM, SYS, OVL, OVR, entre otros). Pueden penetrar al principio o al final de un archivo, dejando generalmente intacto el cuerpo del programa que contaminan.

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Record 5 2001-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil and Natural Gas Extraction
DEF

To cave in; to fail.

OBS

Sometimes, after violent blowout, the force of the escaping fluids from the wellbore causes a large hole to be blown in the earth; in this case the well is said to have cratered.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 6 - external organization data 2011-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atomic Physics
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Radiation Protection
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
DEF

The net loss of neutrons from a region of a reactor by escape across the boundary. [Definition standardized by ISO.]

OBS

leakage: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique atomique
  • Physique nucléaire
  • Radioprotection
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
DEF

Perte nette de neutrons à partir d'une région d'un réacteur par évasion à travers ses limites. [Définition normalisée par l'ISO.]

OBS

fuite de neutrons : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Ear
DEF

Bony plate between the anterior wall of the external auditor meatus and the tympanum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oreille
DEF

gouttière anfractueuse en contrebas du tympan, c'est le plancher de la caisse; elle répond à la fosse jugulaire (...)

Spanish

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Record 8 1983-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances

Spanish

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Record 9 2016-02-23

English

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

An island in the St. Lawrence River, southwest of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, in Québec.

OBS

Coordinates: 45° 4' 35" N, 74° 29' 6" W (Québec).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Île dans le fleuve Saint-Laurent, au sud-ouest de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, au Québec.

OBS

Coordonnées : 45° 4' 35" N, 74° 29' 6" O (Québec).

Spanish

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Record 10 2006-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
OBS

OPLE: Omega position location equipment.

Key term(s)
  • Omega position location equipment platform

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
OBS

OPLE : équipement de radiolocalisation Oméga.

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme OPLE

Spanish

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