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CHECKERBOARD [15 records]

Record 1 2026-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrodiagnosis
  • The Eye
CONT

Evoked potentials are widely used in assessing neurophysiological function of patients, with stimulation most commonly provided by auditory, somatosensitive or visual inputs. In the pattern electroretinogram(PERG), the electrical response of the retina to stimulation by a changing visual pattern is recorded by fine electrodes applied on the surface of the eye. Stimulation is usually provided by a reversing black-and-white checkerboard pattern or grating, in which the overall luminance remains constant.... PERGs were recorded at the clinical Eye Research Centre of St Paul' s Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital... In each subject, two recordings were made from both eyes(36 recordings in total).

Key term(s)
  • pattern electro-retinogram

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrodiagnostiques
  • Oeil
CONT

L'électrorétinogramme à damiers (PERG) prend ses origines au niveau des cônes maculaires et paramaculaires [...] Le patient regarde un écran réversible à damiers ou quadrillé [...] Pour obtenir un enregistrement techniquement satisfaisant, le signal est de faible amplitude; un enregistrement moyen et une attention plus soutenue sont nécessaires. [...] L'onde P50 est invariablement pertubée dans les pathologies maculaires, le PERG permet de déterminer si l'atteinte est intra ou extra rétinienne et donc de distinguer une maculopathie d'une neuropathie optique.

OBS

PERG : abréviation empruntée à l'anglais; correspond à la désignation «pattern electroretinogram».

Key term(s)
  • électro-rétinogramme par inversion à damier
  • électro-rétinogramme à damiers

Spanish

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Record 2 2026-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrodiagnosis
  • The Eye
CONT

Pattern ERG(pERG)... was designed to complement the full-field ERG [electroretinography] in differentiating between maculopathy and generalized retinopathy. pERG uses an alternating pattern-reversal stimuli(i. e., checkerboard pattern) to assess the central retina region. It has been used as a sensitive indicator of dysfunction to detect subtle optic neuropathies.

Key term(s)
  • pattern electro-retinography

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrodiagnostiques
  • Oeil
OBS

électrorétinographie : Méthode d'enregistrement graphique des variations du potentiel électrique cornéo-rétinien à la suite d'une stimulation lumineuse.

Key term(s)
  • électro-rétinographie par inversion de damier

Spanish

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Record 3 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

checkerboard : an item in the "Game Equipment" class of the "Recreational Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

damier : objet de la classe «Équipement de jeu» de la catégorie «Objets récréatifs».

Spanish

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Record 4 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Board Games
DEF

A game played on a checkerboard by two players each having twelve men that move diagonally forward one square at a time or backward as well as if crowned, the object being to capture or block all the opponent's men.

OBS

checkers; draughts: nouns used with a singular verb.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux sur plateaux
DEF

Jeu pratiqué sur un damier avec des pions noirs et des pions blancs.

Spanish

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Record 5 2020-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gemmology
CONT

In a checkerboard cut, a faceter cuts the gem with square facets, so its crown and table resemble a checkerboard. This cut is often used on translucent stones.

Key term(s)
  • checker board cut

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gemmologie
OBS

Les pierres taillées [en damier] sont couvertes de multiples facettes carrées qui sont dispersées de manière uniforme autour de la surface. Les carrés créent un effet lumineux de «damier» étincelant de lumières claires et foncées lorsqu'on déplace la pierre.

Spanish

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Record 6 2017-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
CONT

… method of loading nuclear fuel assemblies … fuel assemblies are loaded in the shape of a checkerboard to form a half core, the reactor is filled with coolants, fuel assemblies are loaded in the remaining half core to form a complete core, and then confirmation of the loaded core is performed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Games and Toys (General)
DEF

Marble game on a checkerboard with holes. The object is to knock down your opponents’ marbles while protecting your own.

OBS

Stay Alive™: A trademark of Milton Bradley (Canada).

Key term(s)
  • Stay Alive

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Jeux et jouets (Généralités)
OBS

La SurvieMC : Marque de commerce de la société Milton-Bradley, Canada.

DEF

Jeu de billes sur damier troué dont le but est de faire tomber celles des adversaires tout en protégeant les siennes.

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Applications of Concrete
DEF

A surface of concrete paving blocks with open sections in which grass can be grown, in order to create an overall checkerboard pattern.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
  • Utilisation du béton

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Arquitectura paisajista
  • Utilización del hormigón
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Record 9 2010-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (civil law)
CONT

By checkerboarding (...) Homex conveyed to a series of third parties (...) so many lots are mere necessary to produce a situation in which neither Homex nor any other single registered owner (...) held contiguous lots on this plan of subdivision.

DEF

for "checkerboard system" : This term with reference to entries on land, means one entry built on another, and a third on the second.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
OBS

Ce terme désigne un procédé de vente ou de lotissement à plusieurs personnes interposées (au moins quatre) de manière qu'aucune d'elles ne soit propriétaire de deux lots contigus.

Spanish

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Record 10 2006-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Video Technology
  • Cinematography
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
DEF

[A] wipe ... in which the new scene replaces the old scene from left to right, like a sliding door closing.

OBS

There are also diagonal wipes, circular wipes, checkerboard wipes, etc. A wipe indicates a passage of time.

OBS

wipe: A special effect taking many shapes and forms in which one image pushes another off the screen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Vidéotechnique
  • Cinématographie
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
DEF

Effet au cours duquel une image affichée est progressivement remplacée par une autre dans un mouvement de gauche à droite à la manière d'une porte coulissante se refermant.

Spanish

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Record 11 2000-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Synthetic Fabrics
CONT

Kynol, a new type of phenolic fiber is impregnated with PTFE suspensoid.

CONT

Billard supplies... Has a joint of staghorn with linen phenolic fiber rings with a checkerboard design....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Textiles artificiels et synthétiques

Spanish

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Record 12 1997-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Textile Weaving (Textile Industries)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
DEF

The simplest of all weave interlacings in which the odd warps threads operate over one and under one weft thread throughout the fabric with the even warp threads reversing this order to under one, over one, throughout.

CONT

Surface finish... there are two very popular surface finishes in demand, Plain Weave and Black Matte. Plain Weave is the common "checkerboard" finish that easily demonstrates the presence of graphite in the product... Plain Weave fabrics that we use on our laminates very often have "tracers", or colored yams that allow manufacturers to verify that fiber position is correct in larger structures.

CONT

Woven fabrics are mostly of simple construction such as the plain weave ... in simple construction there is only one set of warp yarns (the lengthwise yarn) and one set of weft yarns (the cross-wise yarn) making up the fabric, and all are equally responsible for the strength and appearance of the fabric. Patterns and effects are obtained by using various coloured yarns, different size yarns ... The simplest of weaves is the plain weave. Each weft yarn passes alternately over and under each wrap yarn. They are reversible, unless printed or finished, are of firm construction and wear well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Tissage (Industries du textile)
  • Techniques industrielles
DEF

Armure caractérisée par la disposition inverse des fils pairs et impairs : chaque fil de chaîne passe alternativement au-dessus et au-dessous de chaque duite et réciproquement.

CONT

La toile ou uni. La toile est l'armure la plus ancienne, la plus simple et la plus employée. A qualité égale de fil, elle donne des tissus plus solide. Aspect : Les tissus tissage toile sont des tissus à grains dont les deux faces sont semblables, ils ne présentent ni endroit ni envers.

OBS

toile : Terme et définition normalisés par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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Record 13 1987-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
DEF

A method of hiding or making splices invisible in A & B roll editing. Each end of every scene that is cut into the checkerboard rolls prepared by the film editor is extended by at least two frames before being spliced to the blank leader that separates one scene from the others. During laboratory printing, the change from one roll to the next will not show splices because with this method there are none at the cut points.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
OBS

Il s'agit d'une méthode pour monter les films de sorte que les collures soient invisibles.

Spanish

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Record 14 1986-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography
DEF

A method of editing and subsequently printing the picture information from two separate rolls of 16mm film to produce a composite print. Arranged and spliced together by the film editor in checkerboard fashion, the picture information in each roll, the A and the B, is reexposed by the laboratory on raw stock, thus producing a composite on one length of film.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
DEF

Montage qui s'effectue de la manière suivante : au lieu de monter les différents plans dont se compose l'original en une seule bande, ainsi que cela se fait normalement, on monte les plans en deux bandes en collant, alternativement, les plans sur une bande puis sur l'autre. On obtient ainsi une bande A comportant tous les plans impairs et une bande B comportant tous les plans pairs. Sur chacune des bandes, la longueur correspondant aux plans manquants est remplacée par de l'amorce opaque.

Spanish

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Record 15 1983-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

a vault with a checkerboard pattern

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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