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Record 1 2017-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
OBS

Established 3 Feb 1958, The Hague, on signature of the Treaty of Union by representatives of Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands; Treaty came into force 1 Nov 1960. Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg had been linked, since 1921, by the Belgian-Luxembourg Economic Union(BLEU, no. 01463), which still exists within the Benelux Union. The political initiative to bring together the economies of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, taken during Workd War II, and which eventually led to the economic integration of these countries, had been started with the adoption of a Monetary Agreement, 21 Oct 1943, London, a Customs Union Treaty, 5 Sep 1944, London, and the setting up of Benelux Customs Union(inactive), 1 Jan 1948. Statutes registered in UNTS 1/11096. Aims Develop closer economic links among the 3 member countries by ensuring free circulation of persons, goods, capital and services; follow a coordinated policy in economic, financial and social fields in order to reach the optimum level of employment and the highest standard of life compatible with monetary stability, follow a coordinated policy aimed at the harmonious development of the intraborder regions, if useful in an enlarged setting with other neighbouring countries. Structure Institutions :’Governments of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg’ Since the entry into force of the Treaty of Union in 1960, four summit conferences or ’intergovernmental conferences’ have taken place(1969, 1970, 1975, 1982)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Coopération et développement économiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
OBS

El 3 de febrero de 1958 se firmó en La Haya el tratado de Unión Económica del BENELUX, por él se creó un verdadero mercado común entre sus miembros, es decir, se instituyó la libre circulación de personas, de bienes y de capitales, y la aplicación de una política económica común frente a terceros países.

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Record 2 2017-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Household Refrigerators and Freezers
  • Electrical Domestic Appliances
CONT

No frost or "frost free" system performs the defrosting of only freezing compartment or both, freezing and refrigeration compartments, dependent on the model. Evaporator is removed from refrigeration compartment and is hidden in the cabinet behind the back wall of the refrigerator or above the freezing compartment. Besides, the refrigerator is equipped with one or several fans ensuring the continuous circulation of cold air inside the compartments.... The moisture that occurs during fridge operation will not freeze on the walls in the form of ice coating, but "sets down" on the coldest area, i. e. evaporator.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réfrigérateurs et congélateurs domestiques
  • Appareillage électrique domestique
CONT

Le système de froid ventilé comprend [...] une gaine qui relie le compartiment congélateur au compartiment réfrigérateur et, à l’intérieur de cette gaine, il y a un ventilateur qui fait circuler l’air entre les deux compartiments. L’air glacé du congélateur est aspiré et injecté dans le compartiment réfrigérateur et éventuellement, d’autres ventilateurs le font circuler jusqu’au bas du compartiment (bacs à légumes) puis une fois que l’air est plus chaud, il remonte pour retourner au congélateur pour répéter encore le même cycle.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
DEF

A warm-air furnace depending primarily on [the] circulation of air through the furnace by gravity.

OBS

Includes any furnace approved with a booster-type fan, which does not materially restrict free circulation of air through the furnace when the fan is not in operation.

OBS

Warm air furnaces are of two types, gravity and forced air.

Key term(s)
  • gravity-type warm-air furnace

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)
DEF

Appareil producteur d'air chaud, à circulation naturelle [et qui] comprend une chambre de combustion, un échangeur et une chambre de distribution de chaleur.

CONT

[Les] calorifères [...] sont constitués essentiellement d'une cloche en fonte séparant le foyer de l'air chauffé. Le foyer, à l'intérieur de la cloche, est alimenté en combustible, solide, liquide ou gazeux, et en air de combustion; il est surmonté d'une buse d'évacuation des fumées. L'air de chauffage, neuf ou repris, est amené par les gaines de retour et s'élève en léchant la paroi extérieure de la cloche et en s'échauffant à son contact; il est ensuite évacué vers les locaux à chauffer par les gaines de départ.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hornos y calderas (Calefacción)
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Record 4 2012-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Joints and Connections (Construction)
  • Walls and Partitions
DEF

Strips that are nailed over studs, joists, rafters, or masonry to support lath or gypsumboard. This construction permits free circulation of air behind the plaster or gypsumboard.

DEF

Thin strips of wood or metal applied to the joists, studs, or wall of a building to level the surface, create an air space, or add thickness.

CONT

At gypsumboard joints, wood furring should be at least 1 1/2 in. wide, metal furring 1 1/4 in. wide, to provide adequate bearing surface and space for attachment of the gypsumboard.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Joints et assemblages (Construction)
  • Murs et cloisons
DEF

(Bâtiment) Tringle de bois [ou de métal] servant à assurer ou à renforcer la liaison de deux parois, ou à assujettir des lattes sur un poteau de cloison.

CONT

Doublage en plaques de plâtre sur réseau de tasseaux [en] métal. Contre-cloison en plaques de plâtre [...] Cette technique consiste à réaliser un treillage en tasseaux composé d'un cadre périphérique et de tasseaux verticaux, à placer l'isolant [...] entre les tasseaux, puis à fixer sur les tasseaux des plaques de plâtre.

OBS

L'usage canadien a opté pour le terme "fourrure", qui semble être plutôt un générique (cf. BABAT 1985, p. 93 et ABATI 1963, p. 100).

OBS

fourrure : De façon générale, pièce intermédiaire de calage, de rachat, de remplissage d'un vide, de réglage d'épaisseur, de dissimulation d'un joint, correction d'un écart, etc.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Juntas y conexiones (Construcción)
  • Paredes y mamparas
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Record 5 2011-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Traffic
DEF

The regular, free circulation of vehicles on streets and roads.

CONT

The city of Zürich is considered as a pioneer in the domain of (capital-intensive) computer-driven traffic light control, with right of way for trams. The recently built tram in Strasbourg, France, also has the right of way by light control. Numerous other cities are now following this approach that is said to improve overall traffic fluidity for cars as well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circulation routière
DEF

circulation régulière et facile des véhicules.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tránsito vial
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Record 6 2005-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Customs and Excise
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

The customs procedure under which imported goods are stored under customs control in a designated place (a customs warehouse) without payment of import duties and taxes.

OBS

Ther term "customs warehousing procedure" does not cover all cases and all possible uses of the customs warehouses. It covers the warehousing of imported goods, this being, in fact, the use generally authorized by all countries.

OBS

Goods under a customs warehousing procedure may be discharged by a) release for free circulation or placing under another customs procedure; b) placing [goods] in a free-zone; c) re-exportation; d) abandonment to the State, or e) destruction under official supervision.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Douanes et accise
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Régime douanier en application duquel les marchandises importées sont stockées sous contrôle de la douane dans un lieu désigné à cet effet (entrepôt de douane) sans paiement des droits et des taxes à l'importation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aduana e impuestos internos
  • Comercio exterior
CONT

Las actuales disposiciones dispersas en el Código Aduanero Comunitario podrían agruparse en los tres tipos de procedimientos aduaneros que se señalan a continuación [...]: 1) importación (incluida la actual presentación de mercancías en las aduanas, la declaración sumaria, la estancia en depósito temporal, la liberación para la libre circulación [...]; 2) exportación (incluidos la exportación, la reexportación, el perfeccionamiento pasivo y el tránsito interno [...]); 3) los regímenes de suspensión (incluidos el tránsito externo actual, el almacenamiento aduanero, el perfeccionamiento activo [sistema de suspensión], el perfeccionamiento bajo control aduanero, la importación temporal, zonas francas y depósitos francos).

OBS

Compárese con "régimen de depósito aduanero".

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Record 7 2005-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Library Science
OBS

The Canadian Book Exchange Centre(CBEC) helps Canadian libraries help each other. A resource-sharing service provided by Library and Archives Canada, CBEC is a redistribution centre, a clearing house that arranges for the exchange of publications deemed surplus by one library but needed by another. The Centre ensures that the nation's collective surplus holdings are accessible to all, keeps material in circulation and provides an efficient, practical method of using libraries’ excess materials to help fill each other's collection requirements. Currently, the publications made available by the Centre are free of charge, but participating libraries must pay shipping charges whether they send or receive materials.

Key term(s)
  • Canadian Bank Exchange Center
  • Canadian Bank Exchange Centre
  • Canadian Book Exchange Center
  • Canada Book Exchange Centre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Bibliothéconomie
OBS

Le Centre canadien d'échange du livre (CCEL) favorise l'entraide entre les bibliothèques canadiennes. Un service de mise en commun des ressources fourni par Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, le CCEL est un centre de redistribution, c'est-à-dire un bureau central qui expédie les surplus de publications de bibliothèques à d'autres bibliothèques qui en ont besoin. Le Centre fait en sorte que l'ensemble des surplus de publications du pays soient accessibles à tous en favorisant la circulation de documents, selon une méthode efficace et pratique, afin de compléter les collections des bibliothèques. Actuellement, les publications que le Centre reçoit sont offertes gratuitement aux bibliothèques participantes qui doivent toutefois payer les frais d'expédition, que ce soit pour envoyer ou recevoir des publications.

Spanish

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Record 8 2003-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Atmospheric Physics
  • Chimneys (Building Elements)
DEF

The ratio of lateral entrainment velocity to plume-rise velocity of a smoke plume.

CONT

Smoke plumes that rise through the environment due to buoyancy or momentum become diluted with environmental air, where the rate of dilution is proportional to the rise rate of the plume. The entrainment coefficient is this constant of proportionality. This concept of lateral entrainment does not work well for convective thermals in the atmospheric boundary layer. One reason is that boundary layer thermals are part of a large overturning circulation involving the whole boundary layer during statically unstable conditions of free convection, rather than being thin currents of rising smokestack air.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
  • Cheminées (Éléments du bâtiment)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medición y análisis (Ciencias)
  • Física de la atmósfera
  • Chimeneas (Elementos de edificios)
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Record 9 2003-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pipes and Fittings
  • Sewers and Drainage
DEF

In plumbing, a running trap installed in the building drain to prevent a free circulation of air between the drainage system of the building and the building sewer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tuyauterie et raccords
  • Égouts et drainage
DEF

Garde hydraulique installée entre l'égout de maison et le branchement pour empêcher la remontée des odeurs de l'égout (et des rats).

CONT

[...] l'autorité publique peut demander de placer avant le branchement à l'égout, soit un siphon disconnecteur soit un tabouret siphoïde, de façon à retenir le maximum de matière lourde [...]

OBS

[...] by-pass d'aération sur le siphon disconnecteur prévu à la sortie de l'immeuble.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tuberías y accesorios
  • Alcantarillas y drenaje
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Record 10 2001-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
CONT

Release of goods for free circulation.

Key term(s)
  • free circulation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
CONT

Mise en libre pratique des marchandises, des produits.

PHR

Solliciter la mise en libre pratique.

Key term(s)
  • mainlevée pour libre circulation
  • libre circulation

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio exterior
  • Decisiones (Derecho procesal)
PHR

Autorizar el despacho a libre práctica.

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Record 11 2001-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
  • Stationary Airport Facilities
CONT

Basic system operation and performance allow for the processing of contaminated JP-5 fuel that consists of any combination of particulates, water, and aviation fuel. Contaminated fuel is loaded into the process tank via a defueler truck used to collect the segregated JP-5 from squadron hazardous waste storage sites. The fuel is circulated at 15 gpm through the system until it is determined to be visually clean via a sampling port. A gravity drain valve allows for the discharge of wastewater stripped from the fuel during circulation. Depending on the level of particulate contamination, the fuel may be considered clean(less than 2mg/1 particulates, less than 5ppm free water) after one pass through the system or several. A sample of the fuel is then sent to the laboratory for further testing, especially with respect to the flash point. The system can only remove water and particulates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
  • Installations fixes d'aéroport

Spanish

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Record 12 1998-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cattle Raising
  • Chemistry
CONT

Less than 5 % of the IFF-1 in circulation is free, and most is bound in the 150 kDa complex which consists of IGF-1m IGFBP-3, and an acid-labile subunit(ALS).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des bovins
  • Chimie
OBS

Évaluation de la toxicité de la somatotropine bovine.

Spanish

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Record 13 1995-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

The chest harness should not restrict the breathing and circulation of the free hanging climber.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
CONT

L'utilisation d'un baudrier-torse nécessite une expérience de la chute [...]

Spanish

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