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FUNCTIONAL FAMILY [5 records]

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Record 1 2019-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ceremonial and Traditions (Military)
  • Land Forces
DEF

A flag flown to identify the location, headquarters or boundaries of a unit, or of units within a branch or a formation.

CONT

Camp flags are flown to identify the organizational or functional "family" to which a particular installation belongs. Historically, they aid personnel in finding a particular unit. They may be used to mark headquarters and to encompass bounds while on field exercise, manoeuvres, on a parade ground or in barracks. They may also be flown, if appropriate, at such locations as saluting bases.

CONT

The use of camp colours, currently referred to as camp flags, in the British Army dates back to the 18th Century ... The term "camp flag" comes into use after the Second World War but its purpose continued that of the camp colours.

OBS

Command, formation, branch and unit flags are all camp flags.

Key term(s)
  • camp color

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cérémonial et traditions (Militaire)
  • Forces terrestres
DEF

Drapeau arboré pour identifier l'emplacement, le quartier général ou les limites d'une unité ou d'unités relevant d'un service ou d'une formation.

CONT

Les drapeaux de camp sont arborés pour identifier la «famille» organisationnelle ou fonctionnelle à laquelle appartient une installation déterminée. Traditionnellement, ils aident les militaires à trouver une unité. Ils peuvent servir à indiquer l'emplacement du quartier général et à délimiter la zone d'exercices ou de manœuvres en campagne, dans les terrains de parade ou dans les casernes. Ils peuvent aussi être déployés, le cas échéant, sur les plateformes de réception du salut.

CONT

L'usage des couleurs de camp, actuellement appelées drapeaux de camp, dans l'armée britannique remonte au XVIIIe siècle, [...] Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, on a commencé à utiliser le terme «drapeau de camp», mais ce drapeau avait le même but que les couleurs de camp.

OBS

Les drapeaux de commandement, de formation, de branche ou d'unité sont tous des drapeaux de camp.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Social Problems
DEF

A family, considered as a system, whose members work against each other.

OBS

A functional, healthy family is one in which all the members are fully functional and all the relationships between the members are fully functional. As human beings, all family members have available to them the use of all their human powers. They use these powers to cooperate, individuate and to get their collective and individual needs met.

OBS

"Troubled family" is a general-language term, which corresponds to the French term "famille perturbée".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la famille
  • Problèmes sociaux
DEF

Famille déréglée dans son fonctionnement.

CONT

Il existe une infinie variété de familles dysfonctionnelles, marquées par les difficultés de communication et le malheur de chacun.

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

(Adler) the age, pattern, and functional relationships among members of the family. Adler considered the family constellation an important factor in the development of the style of life.

OBS

Term approved by Entraide Traduction Santé.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
OBS

Terme entériné par le réseau Entraide Traduction Santé.

Spanish

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Record 4 1996-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Non-Governmental Provincial Programs (Canadian)
OBS

A family caring for a severely handicapped child(including a foster child) who is under 18 years of age may be eligible to receive a monthly Handicapped Children's Benefit. The child must be residing in the parent's home and have a severe handicap that results in a functional loss. Further, extraordinary costs must be incurred as a direct result of the handicap.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes provinciaux non gouvernementaux canadiens
OBS

Une famille qui prend soin d'un enfant gravement handicapé (il peut s'agir d'un enfant en famille d'accueil) âgé de moins de 18 ans peut avoir droit de recevoir une prestation mensuelle pour enfants handicapés. L'enfant doit résider dans la maison de ses parents et avoir un handicap grave qui occasionne une perte fonctionnelle. En outre, des coûts extraordinaires doivent découler directement du handicap.

Spanish

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Record 5 1977-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Brachiopods of the] family Stropheodontidae [lack a] functional pedicle and [have] simple teeth and dental plates replaced by denticles subsequently spreading along [the] hinge line; socket ridges [are] abbreviated subsequent to [the] loss of [the] dental plates becoming obsolescent or(...) disappearing completely, exceptionally [form] buttresses to [the] cardinal process lobes; [the] pseudodeltidium [is] initially small, apical, becoming progressively larger and in some stocks ultimately closing [the] delthyrium completely; [the] chilidium [is] initially massive becoming degenerate and in some stocks ultimately completely lost; [the] mantle canal patterns in both valves [are] probably lemniscate; [the] shell substance [is] densely pseudopunctate. "U. Ord.-U. Dev. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Brachiopodes de la] famille des Stropheodontidae [ont un] Bord cardinal avec [des] crénelures plus ou moins développées et plus ou moins durables.

Spanish

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