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ACROBAT [17 records]

Record 1 2022-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Gymnastics and Trampoline
  • Performing Arts
CONT

An acrobat is someone who combines strength, grace, balance and flexibility with elements of dance, gymnastics and contortionism. Typically, an acrobat can be seen entertaining audiences at a circus or a dance production.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Gymnastique et trampoline
  • Arts du spectacle
DEF

Artiste de cirque, de music-hall, exécutant des exercices d'équilibre et de gymnastique, plus ou moins périlleux.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Variety Shows and Circuses
DEF

An... acrobat who walks along a free-swinging bar attached to two ropes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Spectacles de variétés et Cirque
DEF

... acrobate qui présente des exercices variés au trapèze.

CONT

Il peut y avoir plusieurs trapézistes sur un trapèze; ils peuvent passer d'un trapèze à un autre; ils peuvent aussi se tenir par les bras puis se lâcher d'un seul coup. Ils peuvent aussi faire de la balançoire, se lâcher et se faire rattraper par l'autre trapéziste. Ils peuvent faire des tours sur le trapèze.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Software
OBS

Acrobat® : A trademark of Adobe.

Key term(s)
  • Acrobat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Logiciels
OBS

Logiciel.

OBS

Acrobat® : Marque de commerce de la société Adobe.

Key term(s)
  • Acrobat

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

To read the PDF version you need Adobe Acrobat Reader 5. 0(or later) on your system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Pour lire la version PDF [format de document portable], vous avez besoin du logiciel Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 (ou une version plus récente).

Spanish

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Record 5 2009-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Computer Hardware
OBS

ScandAll 21 is a TWAIN based image scanning, displaying, and printing application for Fujitsu image scanners. It provides an integrated image acquisition environment that allows you to : Scan to view, Scan to file, Scan to ftp, Scan to PDF(Acrobat s/w reqd), open, view, print, and store images in various file formats [jpg/bmp/tiff(single page)/tiff(multi-page) ].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Matériel informatique

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Education Theory and Methods
CONT

The Freeskills. com website is an online training site that offers over 200 courses free from charge to the Internet community. All of the courses have been professionally developed by training companies with years of experience in their fields. All of this training can be viewed online within your browser with the aid of the Adobe Acrobat reader downloadable from the homepage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Internet et télématique
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
CONT

Ce que pourrait faire Cyberworkers.com dans le domaine de la formation serait de créer un site de formation en ligne avec des formateurs et des informaticiens qui travailleraient en équipe pour développer des produits de formation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Capacitación del personal
  • Internet y telemática
  • Teorías y métodos pedagógicos
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Record 7 2006-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computers and Calculators
CONT

The four Browse buttons reside in the tool bar. Clicking the respective buttons enables Acrobat Reader and Exchange users to go to the top of the first document page, the top of the previous document page, top of the next document page, and to the top of the last document page.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ordinateurs et calculateurs

Spanish

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Record 8 2004-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Baseball and Softball
DEF

A spectacular catch, suggesting the moves of a circus acrobat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Baseball et softball
CONT

Ichiro Suzuki a connu une journée de quatre coups sûrs et Torii Hunter a réussi un attrapé spectaculaire en neuvième, hier, alors que les étoiles du baseball majeur défaisaient les étoiles du Japon au compte de 4-2.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Béisbol y softball
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Record 9 2002-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

... Acrobat is still a single-user application.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
CONT

[...] Acrobat reste une application monoposte.

Spanish

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Record 10 1998-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gymnastics and Trampoline
DEF

Acrobat or gymnast using a trampoline as a springboard in tumbling; performer or athlete in the sport of trampolining or rebound tumbling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gymnastique et trampoline
DEF

Sportif pratiquant le trampoline.

CONT

«Les trampolinistes exécutent des figures imposées et libres en utilisant l'effet de ressort du tapis» [Tous les Sports, 1970, cité dans PSPOR,1982,,,470.]

OBS

trampoliniste : Appellation qui a la faveur en France tout en ayant l'avantage d'être féminin ou masculin selon le cas.

OBS

trampolineur,-neuse :Appellation le plus près du nom de l'engin et de la discipline, «trampoline»; celle qui est le plus usité dans le langage parlé.

OBS

tremplineur,-neuse : Il serait éminemment souhaitable de rapprocher «trampoline» de son doublet français «tremplin» et de créer ainsi le mot «trempline», qui pourrait ensuite engendrer des dérivés «tremplineur», «trempliner», etc. (RCF, 1978,, 422). Cette proposition semble ne pas vouloir trouver preneur. Au Canada, on utilise surtout «trampoline» et il est fort à parier que «trampolinage», «trampolineur» et «trampoliner» auront cours avec la popularité croissante du sport pratiqué sur cet engin.

Spanish

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Record 11 1998-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Video Technology
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
DEF

Image that can be recorded and reconstructed by superposition of several interface patterns.

CONT

Color images consist of dots described as having hue(a base pure color such as from a rainbow), saturation(the amount of pure white color necessary to dilute the hue to form a derivative pastel matching the dot's color tint), and intensity(gives viewers a dot brightness sensation). Acrobat represents colors as combinations of red, green, and blue, or as combinations of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Also, see Bi-level Image and Grayscale Image.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Vidéotechnique
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
DEF

[Image] qui est de plusieurs couleurs.

CONT

Grâce à la grande sensibilité des caméras vidéo modernes, on obtient des images couleur satisfaisantes dans des conditions d'éclairage incompatibles avec la plupart des films couleur.

Spanish

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Record 12 1996-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
DEF

The part of the screen where you do your typing and editing.

CONT

The Acrobat Reader and Exchange programs create a document window for every open PDF document. The document window contains other windows, windoids, and two panes; an Overview pane and a Page View pane. An Overview pane exposes either a bookmark or thumbnail window. A Page View pane exposes a Page View window. The document window's Width Control position determines the Overview and Page View pane horizontal size within the document window.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
OBS

Terminologie des éléments à fenêtre, menus, boîtes de dialogue et de message, autres éléments d'écran IUG, touches, interventions utilisateur et applications de Microsoft Windows.

Spanish

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Record 13 1996-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Video Technology
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

In video production, the cutting off of picture elements by the camera framing.

OBS

A user-controlled process to facilitate page viewing by inhibiting Acrobat Reader and Exchange from displaying unnecessary top, bottom, and side document margins in the Page View pane. The individually set margin croppings apply to user-selected page ranges within individual PDF documents. PDF files contain the viewing crop specifications. Original page margins still appear on printed pages, but information within the cropped areas does not print.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vidéotechnique
  • Infographie
DEF

Transaction d'une image imposée par les dimensions de la fenêtre de visualisation.

Spanish

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Record 14 1996-01-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

A technique that reduces image resolution before image compression commences to reduce compressed image sizes. As an example, one technique collectively replaces a group of dot values with its average. Dots averaged together reside in non-overlapping squares. A single averaged value replaces the collectively averaged dot values, reducing image dot counts, resolution, and PDF compressed image sizes. A downsample factor of 2 reduces both horizontal and vertical image resolutions by a factor of 4.

CONT

Downsampling typically forfeits image detail, but yields significantly smaller compressed images. Acrobat Distiller products enable you to specify the minimum image resolution acceptable and use the maximum downsample factor that does not violate your selected minimum resolution specification or exceed your selected downsample integer value specification.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
OBS

Voir compression altérante, compression inaltérante.

Spanish

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Record 15 1996-01-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
DEF

An Acrobat Exchange technique that records PDF file change activity such as bookmark changes, hypertext link changes, croppings, page rotations, page additions, page deletions, and so on, in PDF files. Acrobat Exchange flags existing PDF page specifications as changed and appends updated information to PDF file ends. This minimizes save activity duration, permitting changed PDF file save durations to reflect change extents rather than PDF file sizes. It also preserves previous information, potentially permitting future extensions to perform subsequent undo operations if necessary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-01-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
  • Office Automation
DEF

A general compression technique that compresses repeated instances of identical data elements, such as individual characters, as a data element repeat count followed by the element. Acrobat Distiller products and PDF Writer optionally use a Run Length Compression implementation to compress bilevel images for PDF file inclusion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
  • Bureautique
OBS

Voir codage par longueur de ligne.

Spanish

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Record 17 1996-01-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
  • Photoengraving
CONT

The Greek level specifies the pixel height text characters must have for Acrobat Reader or Exchange to render them as characters. Otherwise, Acrobat Reader or Exchange displays the text as gray lines. Users typically set the Greek level to the point value(72 points equals one inch) at which text becomes illegible on their screen. Greeking accelerates rendering activities. Because Acrobat products assume a screen has 72 dots per inch, users actually set how high characters need to be(in pixels) to escape render-oblivion. Type 3 fonts do not Greek.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
  • Photogravure

Spanish

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