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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2020-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Installation of Electrical Equipment
  • Electrical Wiring (Building Elements)
DEF

A tempered steel wire, usually of rectangular cross section, that is pushed through a run of conduit or through an inaccessible space … and that is used for drawing in the wires.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installation des équipements électriques
  • Installations électriques (Éléments du bâtiment)

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Wiring (Building Elements)
DEF

A thin-walled metal raceway of circular cross section constructed for the purpose of the pulling in or the withdrawing or wires or cables after it is installed in place.

OBS

[An electrical metallic tubing] as a wall thinner than that of rigid metal conduit and an outside diameter sufficiently different from that of rigid conduit to render it impracticable for anyone to thread it with standard pipe thread.

OBS

electrical metallic tubing; EMT: term and abbreviation and definition standardized by CSA.

OBS

electrical metallic tubing; EMT: term and abbreviation officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations électriques (Éléments du bâtiment)
DEF

Canalisation métallique de section circulaire dans laquelle les conducteurs doivent être glissés [après sa mise en place].

OBS

Comparé au conduit rigide métallique, la paroi [du tube électrique métallique] est plus mince et son diamètre extérieur suffisamment différent pour qu'il soit impossible d'y faire des filets pour tuyaux ordinaires.

OBS

tube électrique métallique : terme et définition normalisés par la CSA.

OBS

tube métallique électrique; T.M.E. : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coils and Windings (Electrical Components)
DEF

An inductance coil in which the turns are wound so as to cross each other obliquely, to reduce the self capacitance.

CONT

What is [a] honeycomb coil? One in which wire is wound in a zigzag formation around a circular former. The adjacent layers are staggered, so that the wires cross each other obliquely to reduce capacitance effects between turns.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bobines et bobinage (Composants électrotechniques)
Key term(s)
  • bobine en nid d'abeilles

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Telecommunications
DEF

Distribution system equipment used to terminate and administer communication circuits.

OBS

In a wire cross connect, jumper wires or patch cords are used to make circuit connections. In an optical cross connect, fiber patch cords are used. The cross connect is located in an equipment room, riser closet, or satellite closet.

Key term(s)
  • wire cross connect

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
  • Télécommunications

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
  • Telecomunicaciones
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Record 5 1997-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surveying Instruments
DEF

Stadia. Device used in calculating distance through measurement of angles; specifically, by calculating the distance by proportion to the space on a vertical rod seen between upper and lower instrument cross hairs in a surveyor’s level or tansit.

DEF

Stadimeter. An instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.

OBS

Stadimeter [formed of] stadia (1) + meter.

OBS

Stadia(1) : a method of surveying in which distances are read by noting the interval on a graduated rod intercepted by two parallel cross hairs(stadia hairs or stadia wires) mounted in the telescope of a surveying instrument, the rod being placed at one end of the distance to be measured and the surveying instrument at the other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'arpentage
DEF

Instrument optique de mesure topographique des distances pour les levés de plans: il est composé d'une lunette sur pied au travers de laquelle on vise une mire parlante, ou stadia; le réticule de la lunette comporte deux fils parallèles que l'on fait coïncider avec deux graduations de la mire.

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
  • Textile Industries
OBS

A screening surface of wires which cross each other to form apertures.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Techniques industrielles
  • Industries du textile
OBS

Fond de tamis formé de fils qui se croisent.

OBS

Pièce de tissu faite d'une matière textile (coton, nylon, etc.) ou de fils métalliques et utilisée pour équiper les surfaces filtrantes et certaines surfaces criblantes.

Spanish

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Record 7 1989-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A small prototype network in which computers are linked in a crossbar grid of switches.

CONT

A crossbar is a 2-dimensional array of wires linked where they cross via switches. Each of the N computers might be linked to one row and to one column. Or, alternately, a different set of nodes, for example, memories, or/and input-output devices, might be linked at the columns. Thus a crossbar linking N computers has N x N switches.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Géométrie idéale d'un réseau d'interconnexions qui relie tout le monde à tout le monde. Mais le nombre des liaisons nécessaires croît comme le carré du nombre des processeurs.

Spanish

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