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BENCH AREA [9 records]

Record 1 2011-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Baseball and Softball
DEF

A single bench or row of chairs on which baseball players and coaches of the same team sit when they are not playing in the field during a game.

OBS

The "dugout" is the whole area, bench and shade included, though the term "bench" often refers to the whole area.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Baseball et softball
DEF

Endroit réservé aux membres en uniforme de chaque équipe (joueurs, substituts, entraîneurs, etc.) lorsqu'ils ne participent pas directement au jeu.

OBS

Le terme «abri des joueurs» comprend toute l'aire de repos (banc, remise pour l'équipement, pare-soleil, etc.), bien que «banc des joueurs», un des éléments, désigne, la plupart du temps, plus que le simple banc ou rangée de chaises sur lesquelles s'assoient les joueurs au cours d'une partie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Béisbol y softball
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Record 2 2011-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
DEF

A small bench located in the neutral zone across from the players’ benches and set off from the stands and the playing area by a partition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
CONT

L'équipe A doit envoyer un joueur au banc des punitions pour 2 minutes pour purger la punition mineure automatique et jouer en désavantage numérique pendant ces 2 minutes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports (General)
  • Disabled Sports
CONT

[In sledge hockey], the players bench area is on ice itself. This allows the players to skate into the area and wait for their shifts during the game.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports (Généralités)
  • Sports adaptés

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Research Experiments in Space
CONT

The Rocket Assembly/Checkout Facility... The facility consists of six contiguous laboratory modules subdivided into a storage area, a gray room area, and a clean room. The storage area houses spare instrument components and intermittently used ground support equipment. The gray room area contains facilities to clean components before they enter the clean room and equipment used to ship the instrument to WSMR [White Sands Mission Range]. The Class 100 cross-flow clean room is separated from the gray room by an air shower. The clean room contains three major stations : a clean bench for assembly of subsystems; a 12x14-ft optical bench for instrument assembly and electronic test of the instrument subsystems; and a vacuum chamber for vacuum focus and spectroradiometric calibration. The cryogenically pumped vacuum chamber is designed with a 30-cm diameter ultraviolet collimator at one end and a roll-off section that accommodates the entire flight instrument centered in the collimated beam at the other end.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travaux de recherche dans l'espace

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orbital Stations
  • Research Experiments in Space
CONT

The clean bench installed in JEM provides a sterilized closed work space for life sciences experiments such as handling of cells, microorganisms, or small plants. This clean bench consists of an operation chamber, a disinfection chamber and a control unit to communicate with JEM system. The operation chamber can be drawn out from the main part of the clean bench to make sufficient working area. The operation chamber contains a phase-contrast microscope that is also used as a fluorescence microscope and a CCD camera for inspection.

OBS

clean bench; CB: term and abbreviation officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group (ISSOAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations orbitales
  • Travaux de recherche dans l'espace
OBS

banc stérile : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale (GTTSSI).

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orbital Stations
CONT

The SAR [Shared Accommodations Rack] provides powered storage for scientific samples... It provides a sample preparation and FCF [Fluids and Combustion Facility] maintenance area, as well as active storage of fluids and gases needed for certain types of fluids and combustion experiments. When not being used for the forgoing, it provides a significant volume and optics bench that is configurable for experiments-including mid-deck locker type experiments.

CONT

The powered racks are called the Fluids Integrated Rack (FIR), Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR), and Shared Accommodations Rack (SAR).

OBS

shared accommodations rack; SAR: term and abbreviation officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group (ISSOAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations orbitales
OBS

bâti à occupation partagée; SAR : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale (GTTSSI).

Spanish

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Record 7 2000-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geological Research and Exploration
DEF

To walk along a prominent bench or contour to plot geological strata within a given area.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
CONT

En prospection géologique : suivre un banc dominant pour relever les couches géologiques d'un secteur donné.

Spanish

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Record 8 1992-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

... the proportionate sizes of the legs, arms, and back of a garden bench, for example, determine the scale of the seat. And the overall size of the seat, in proportionate relation to walk width, arbor height, lawn area, tree size, and so on, helps to determine the scale of the garden.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère

Spanish

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Record 9 1979-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
OBS

Game ejection means that a player or team official has been removed from the game by the referee and must leave the area of the players’ bench and must in no way direct, coach or assist the team in any manner for the remainder of the game.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
OBS

Situation dans laquelle un joueur ou un officiel d'équipe est chassé du jeu par l'arbitre; il doit quitter la zone du banc des joueurs et ne doit en aucun cas diriger, conseiller ou aider l'équipe pendant tout le reste de la partie.

Spanish

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