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BELT GUARD [3 records]

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Record 1 2017-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pulleys and Belts
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
DEF

A protective grill or cover for a belt and pulleys.

OBS

belt guard : designation standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poulies et courroies
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
DEF

Construction protégeant une transmission à courroie.

OBS

capot protège-courroie : désignation normalisée par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mechanical Transmission Systems
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A metal shield placed around moving parts of machinery to prevent injury to personnel.

OBS

In the oil field, these are used on such equipment as belts, power-transmission chains, drums, flywheel, and drive shafts.

OBS

See also "belt guard. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmissions mécaniques
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Dispositif de sécurité qui protège le personnel des pièces en mouvement.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A line, belt, or fringe of skerries, parallel to and extending along a coast for hundreds of kilometers, seemingly acting as a breakwater or "guard. "

CONT

Norway is a land of rugged, pine-topped mountain ranges, valleys gouged out by glaciers, and narrow deep-sided inlets from the sea known as fjords. A line of offshore islands called the skerry guard shields the coastline and forms a protected inland waterway.

CONT

A chain of islands locally called the "skerry guard" or "reef guard" (Norwegian: skjærgården) protect the coast.

OBS

A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. The term skerry is derived from the Old Norse sker, which means a rock in the sea. ... The island fringe of Norway is such a group of glacially formed skerries (called a skjærgård); many of the cross fjords are so arranged that they parallel the coast and provide a protected channel behind an almost unbroken succession of mountainous islands and skerries.

OBS

skaergaard; skerry-guard: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

Key term(s)
  • skærgaard

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Côte basse de plaine proglaciaire ennoyée par la déglaciation, des eaux peu profondes entourant un semis d'îlots ou d'écueils («skjärgaard», ou jardin d'écueils en norvégien).

CONT

Côte à skjärs et à drumelinoïdes de la baie de James, au nord de l'embouchure de la Grande Rivière.

OBS

côte à skjär : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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