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Record 1 2015-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Technology (Informatics)
DEF

A structured document for users that is published by a service provider and includes a full description of individual IT(information technology) services or, at a minimum, information on cost, quality and service levels.

CONT

The service catalogue may also include service request processes and contact points.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Technologie de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

Document structuré publié par un fournisseur de services à l'intention des utilisateurs de services, qui donne une description complète des services de TI [technologies de l'information] ou, à tout le moins, de l'information sur le coût, la qualité et les niveaux de service.

CONT

Le catalogue de services peut aussi comprendre les processus de demande de services et les lieux de contact.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Regulations (Water Transport)
  • Transport of Goods
  • Foreign Trade
  • Business and Administrative Documents
DEF

Document containing a full list of a ship's cargo, extracted from the bills of lading. Included are the marks and numbers on the package, a description of the goods, their weight and the names of the shipper and the consignee.

PHR

outward manifest, inward manifest.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réglementation (Transport par eau)
  • Transport de marchandises
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Écrits commerciaux et administratifs
DEF

Liste détaillée des marchandises se trouvant à bord d'un navire, récapitulant les connaissements, indiquant l'origine et la destination, visée par la douane du port de départ et certifiée exacte par le capitaine.

OBS

Le manifeste est remis au port d'arrivée et sert de base aux formalités douanières et aux statistiques portuaires.

PHR

manifeste d'entrée, manifeste de sortie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamentación (Transporte por agua)
  • Transporte de mercancías
  • Comercio exterior
  • Documentos comerciales y administrativos
DEF

Inventario completo y detallado, a la vez que valorizado, de las mercancías que transporta una nave, con indicación del origen, tipo de mercancías, y destinación.

CONT

El manifiesto de carga debe contener los pesos de ésta conforme a los utilizados en el sistema métrico decimal y, para su validez, es indispensable que la certificación consular sea efectuada en fecha anterior al arribo de la nave al puerto de destino de la mercancía.

PHR

manifiesto de exportación, manifiesto de importación.

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Record 3 2014-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administration (Indigenous Peoples)
  • Legal Documents
  • Aboriginal Law
  • Treaties and Conventions
CONT

... the Commission is simply not in a position to agree or disagree with the First Nation's description of the content of its treaty rights without the benefit of a full analysis of the law on treaty interpretation by both parties.

OBS

Alexis First Nation Inquiry TransAlta Utilities Right Way Claim (March 2003).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration (Peuples Autochtones)
  • Documents juridiques
  • Droit autochtone
  • Traités et alliances
CONT

[...] la Commission n'est simplement pas en mesure de prendre position pour ou contre la description que fait la Première Nation du contenu de ses droits issus de traité sans disposer d'une analyse complète par les deux parties du droit en matière d' interprétation des traités.

OBS

Enquête sur la revendication de la Première Nation d'Alexis relative aux emprises accordées à TransAlta Utilities (Mars 2003).

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Patents (Law)
CONT

Functional limitations must always be considered from the perspective of the person skilled in the art, with the question to be asked being : can the person skilled in the art practice, in view of the description, the full breadth of the claimed invention without recourse to undue experimentation or inventive ingenuity?

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)
CONT

Les limites fonctionnelles doivent toujours être considérées du point de vue de la personne versée dans l’art. C’est pourquoi il faut se demander si la personne versée dans l’art peut réaliser l’ensemble de l’invention telle que revendiquée, à la lumière de la description [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 2013-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lexicology, Lexicography, Terminology
DEF

A description of a non-catalogued source written out in full.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lexicologie, lexicographie et terminologie
DEF

Description en toutes lettres d'une source non codée.

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Legal Documents
DEF

The portion of a conveyance document that defines the property being transferred. In order to be valid, documents such as deeds, assignments of leases, certain leases, and mortgages must contain a full legal description of the property to be conveyed.(Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 137)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Documents juridiques
OBS

Solution retenue en matière d'arpentage.

OBS

description : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 7 2004-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Medication
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
OBS

Health Canada, Drugs Directorate guidelines, Ottawa. The clinical study report described in this guideline is an integrated full report of an individual study of any therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic agent(referred to herein as drug or treatment) conducted in patients, in which the clinical and statistical description, presentations, and analyses are integrated into a single report. [<a href="http ://www. hc-sc. gc. ca/hpb-dgps/therapeut/drhtmeng/guidmain. html" title="http ://www. hc-sc. gc. ca/hpb-dgps/therapeut/drhtmeng/guidmain. html">http ://www. hc-sc. gc. ca/hpb-dgps/therapeut/drhtmeng/guidmain. html</a>]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Médicaments
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
OBS

Santé Canada, directives de la Direction des médicaments, Ottawa. Le rapport d'étude clinique décrit dans cette directive est un rapport complet et intégré d'une étude individuelle de tout agent thérapeutique, prophylactique ou diagnostique (appelé ci-après médicament ou traitement) menée auprès de patients, où la description, les exposés et les analyses cliniques et statistiques sont intégrés en un seul rapport.

Spanish

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Record 8 2003-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Shipping and Delivery
OBS

This sub-section applies, not only to cases where the full contract goods are delivered mixed with additional goods of a different description, but also to cases where the contract amount only is delivered and it contains an admixture of goods of different description.

Key term(s)
  • mixed goods delivery

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Expédition et livraison

Spanish

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Record 9 2002-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Programs
OBS

Sudan. The programme was prepared and presented to the United Nations Conference on Desertification in Nairobi in 1977. In incorporated a full description of the ecological zones and included 23 project documents for desert encroachment control all of which were centered around rehabilitation of the vegetative cover, soil conservation and reclamation and, rational use of ground water, wildlife protection and awareness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes internationaux
Key term(s)
  • Programme de lutte contre la désertification et le réaménagement

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

False description does not harm. The principle that if the subject-matter of a conveyance, gift, bequest, or devise is identifiable, it does not matter if it has been misdescribed in the deed.

DEF

... if a will describes a certain person or thing with sufficient certainty to enable a court to recognize the person or thing intended by the testator, then the court will overlook any inaccuracy in the rest of the description.

CONT

This rule, the full name of which is "falsa demonstratio non nocet, cum de corpore constat", permits the exclusion of words from a will where the thing intended has already been adequately described. Any additional and incorrect description can then be deleted to resolve the otherwise existing ambiguity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
DEF

Une description (ou indication) erronée ne nuit pas (au bien-fondé de la cause). Se réfère à l'emploi de termes inappropriés dans la description d'une personne ou d'une chose, dans la rédaction d'un testament ou encore à l'emploi de mots comportant un sens autre que celui du langage habituel.

Spanish

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Record 11 1996-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Audio-Visual Documents
  • Personnel Management
OBS

[videorecording]. [S. l. ] : Carleton productions, The Full House Productions, [198-] 1 videocassette(53 min.). Description of the elements and options of the various public service plans, the superannnuation plan and the concept of "pensionable service"

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents audio-visuels
  • Gestion du personnel
OBS

[enregistrement vidéo]. [S.l] : Carleton Productions, The Full House Production, [198-] 1 vidéocassette (59 min.]. Description des divers éléments et options des régimes d'assurances de la fonction publique, du régime des pensions de retraite et du concept du «service ouvrant droit à pension».

Spanish

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Record 12 1995-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
OBS

[An assessment of] intelligence in children ages 4-6 1/2. Description : 10 subtests divided into two major divisions yielding a verbal IQ, a performance IQ and a full scale IQ for children tested individually. The Verbal section of the test consists of the following subtests : Information, Vocabulary, Arithmetic, Similarities, and Comprehension.... The Performance section consists of the following subtests : Animal House, Picture Completion, Mazes, Geometric Design, and Block Design.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
DEF

[...] échelle [...] qui sert à évaluer les enfants de 4 ans à 6 1/2 ans. [...] L'échelle renferme cinq sous-tests verbaux, un sous-test verbal supplémentaire et cinq sous-tests non verbaux.

OBS

Même si «échelle» est féminin en français on dit «le» WPPSI.

Spanish

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Record 13 1994-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Programming Languages
CONT

The Standard Page Description Language is capable of representing all content types for fully composed, non-revisable documents. Any combination of the following types of content can be represented; any content may be in black-and-white, gray-scale, or full colour; and content types may be intermixed in any way in the same document. In addition to specifying how document images are represented, this International Standard specifies how additional information called printing instructions affects the document image. Printing instructions may be supplied with the request to print the document by means of a print access protocol.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Langages de programmation

Spanish

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Record 14 1994-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematical Geography
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

A government document that contains the full technical description of the interface between the satellites and the user.

OBS

GPS receivers must comply with this specification if they are to receive and process GPS signals property.

OBS

Term and definition provided by the Canadian Hydrographic Service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie mathématique
  • Télédétection
DEF

Document publié par le gouvernement et renferme une description technique complète de l'interface reliant les satellites aux utilisateurs.

OBS

Les récepteurs GPS doivent être conformes aux spécifications fournies dans ce document pour permettre une réception et un traitement convenables des signaux GPS.

Spanish

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Record 15 1980-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronomy
OBS

finding list. an index, catalog, or list(...) usually without being full in description and annotation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronomie
OBS

Catalogue d'étoiles, tables où sont enregistrées les positions des étoiles à une époque donnée, ainsi que divers autres renseignements (magnitude, mouvement propre, spectre, etc.).

Spanish

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