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FULL WAVE [12 records]

Record 1 2025-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surfing and Water-Skiing
CONT

A cutback is a surfing maneuver with which you change your direction on the rail by going back to the breaking part of the wave. See, when you’re at full speed, there's a big chance that you’re getting away from the breaking wave and heading towards the flat spots of the shoulder that don’t have the intrinsic power to carry you. So, you’ll lose speed, and you’ll need to get back to the wave to gain as much speed as you can. That's when you should perform a cutback. In that sense, a cutback isn’t only an aesthetic move, as it gets you back to the power source of the wave : its curl.

Key term(s)
  • cut-back

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ski nautique et surfing
DEF

Manœuvre horizontale qui consiste, pour un surfeur, à s'élancer sur l'épaule de la vague pour revenir, après un demi-tour, dans le cœur de celle-ci.

OBS

manœuvre de retour; retour : désignations et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 15 décembre 2022.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Waves
OBS

full wave : term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee(New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ondes radioélectriques
OBS

pleine onde : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Implements and Gardening Tools
  • Tillage Operations (Agriculture)
CONT

The decompactor improves soil structure by establishing a system of deep cracks and fissures and so ids the downward movement of air, water and roots through to a greater depth of the soil profile, thus improving drainage in wet years and increasing resistance to drought in dry years.

OBS

Earthquake Decompactor. Soil displaced by blades combined with the forward speed produces a wave action to decompact the soil the full working depth of the times.

OBS

[Decompactors are] ideal for areas where decompaction has been a problem.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage agricole et horticole
  • Travaux du sol (Agriculture)
DEF

Appareil de travail du sol servant à atténuer le tassement du sol en profondeur créé par des passages d'engins en conditions trop humides.

CONT

Les décompacteurs sont constitués d'un bâti très robuste supportant des dents capables de travailler le sol au-dessous de la profondeur normale de labour.

OBS

Il présente généralement de fortes lames verticales, inclinées, droites au recourbées.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Semiconductors (Electronics)
DEF

The effective value of the ON-state current which can be continuously passed.

OBS

Generally, it shows at the effective value of the commercial frequency sine full wave ON-state current.

OBS

RMS: root-mean-square.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Semi-conducteurs (Électronique)

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rectifiers (Electricity)
OBS

half wave full voltage rectifier : term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee(New Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • half-wave full voltage rectifier

French

Domaine(s)
  • Redresseurs (Électricité)
OBS

redresseur demi-onde de pleine tension : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • redresseur demi onde de pleine tension

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rectifiers (Electricity)
OBS

full wave half voltage rectifier : term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee(New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Redresseurs (Électricité)
OBS

redresseur pleine onde de demi-tension : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • redresseur pleine onde de demi tension

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Range Measurements (Telecommunications)
CONT

In wave mode, the ASAR [advanced synthetic aperture radar] instrument, measures changes in backscatter from the sea surface due to ocean wave action. Therefore it generates vignettes... The position of the wave vignette across track being selected as either constant or alternating between two across-track positions over the full swath range.

CONT

Due to the reduced size of the imagettes compared to normal ASAR [advanced synthetic aperture radar] images, each Wave Mode Geolocation Annotation Data Set Record (ADSR) contains only the geodetic latitude and longitude of the centre point of the imagette. One ADSR is produced for each wave cell.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Mesures à distance (Télécommunications)
Key term(s)
  • vignette vague

Spanish

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Record 8 2001-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oscillators and Oscillating Circuits (Electronics)
CONT

The term applied to the phenomenon which occurs when an output signal is limited in some way by the full range of an amplifier, analog-to-digital converter(ADC) or other device. When this occurs, the signal is flattened a the peak values, the signal approaches the shape of a square wave, and high frequency components are introduced. Clipping may be hard, as is the case when the signal is strictly limited at some level; or it may be soft, in which case the clipping signal continues to follow the input at some reduced gain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits oscillants et oscillateurs (Électronique)
DEF

Opération qui consiste à remplacer les parties d'un signal dont la valeur dépasse un certain seuil par la valeur de ce seuil.

Spanish

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Record 9 1999-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
  • Urinary Tract
CONT

(ESWL) works in something like a high-tech Ribe Goldberg sequence. The patient, usually anesthetized from the waist down to obliterate the mild discomfort of the shocks, is strapped onto a pallet and lowered into a specially designed tub full of water. X-rays reveal the precise location of the kidney stone on two television monitors. The physician pushes a button, and a spark plug at the bottom of the tank fires, vaporizing some of the water, which then creates a pressure wave. After bouncing off an elliptical brass reflector that is aimed at the patient's kidney stone, the wave passes harmlessly through the patient's tissues but creates a shattering impact when it collides with the hard stone. More than a thousand individual shocks may be required to completely break up a stone, which will wash away in the patient's urine after it disintegrates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
  • Appareil urinaire
OBS

[...] lithotriteur [...] la lithotritie par ondes de choc électrohydraulique, sous contrôle endoscopique, permet la fragmentation à vue des pierres de façon quasi atraumatique [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumental médico
  • Vías urinarias
DEF

Instrumento para romper los cálculos en la vejiga a través de la uretra por medio de una corriente eléctrica.

OBS

Electrolitotricia: litotricia por una corriente eléctrica.

OBS

Litotricia: desmenuzamiento o fragmentación de un cálculo en la vejiga, por la vía uretral, por medio del litotritor.

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Record 10 1986-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Appliances and Equipment
CONT

The 3 phase output of the AC exciter is rectified by a full wave rotating rectifier located within the main shaft.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareillage électrique
CONT

[machines sans balais] On associe à la machine une excitatrice tournante montée sur le même arbre. Cette excitatrice est un alternateur dont l'induit est tournant et débite sur six redresseurs tournants. La sortie des redresseurs alimente directement l'inducteur de l'alternateur principal.

Spanish

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Record 11 1985-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy Transformation
  • Thermonuclear fusion
  • Atomic Physics
DEF

Instability where the perturbation electric field causes a local time-varying perturbation in the magnetic field which also contributes to the structure of the wave. With respect to the propagation vector such waves have transverse components and are described by means of the full set of Maxwell equations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation de l'énergie
  • Fusion thermonucléaire
  • Physique atomique

Spanish

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Record 12 1981-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
CONT

The computer method consists of applying the three full Navier-Stokes equations of fluid mechanics(...) over a pattern of points on a theoretical airframe before any hardware exists. Plotted over a sufficiently large number of points around an aerodynamic shape, these equations can predict lift, drag and heating. Some unsteady [air] flow patterns, such as the 3, 000 Hz shock wave buzz round the inlet spike of a missile at Mach 3, have been successfully plotted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
CONT

La méthode sur ordinateur consiste à appliquer les trois équations complètes de Navier-Stokes sur la mécanique des fluides (...) à un certain nombre de points d'une cellule théorique. Si on les applique à un nombre suffisant de points d'une surface aérodynamique, elles permettent de connaître la portance, la traînée et l'échauffement cinétique. Cette méthode a permis de déterminer correctement certains types d'écoulements instables, tels que le "bourdonnement" de 3000 Hz dû aux ondes de choc, qui se produit à Mach 3 autour du cône d'entrée d'air d'un missile.

Spanish

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