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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2025-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Climatology
DEF

The ability of plants to either postpone dehydration or tolerate dehydration during a period of drought such that damage is prevented, reduced, or repaired.

CONT

Most species of plants can survive short dry periods without serious injury, but a prolonged period of soil water deficiency is highly injurious or lethal to all except those species of plants with a well-developed capacity for drought resistance... A fundamental factor in the drought resistance of plants therefore appears to be a capacity of the cells to endure a substantial reduction in their water content without suffering injury.

Key term(s)
  • SUSTAGRIDUR2025

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Climatologie
DEF

Capacité d'une plante à retarder la déshydratation ou à la tolérer pendant une période de sécheresse, qui lui permet d'empêcher ou de réduire les dommages qui en découlent ou d'y remédier.

Key term(s)
  • résistance à la sècheresse

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Climatología
DEF

Capacidad de [resistir] desecación.

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Record 2 2024-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
  • Transportation
CONT

When a taxi driver of an unoccupied taxi is seeking passengers on a road unknown to him or her in a large city, what should the driver do? Alternatives include cruising around the road or waiting for a time period at the roadside in the hopes of finding a passenger or just leaving for another road enroute to a destination he [or she] knows(e. g., hotel taxi rank) ?... There could be different answers to the question poised above, but one fundamental problem is how the driver learns about the likelihood of finding passengers on a road that is new to him [or her. ]

Key term(s)
  • unoccupied taxi cab
  • vacant taxi cab

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de véhicules automobiles et de bicyclettes
  • Transports

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-02-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

ANPP [Above-Ground Net Primary Production] is : The change in plant mass including any losses to death and decomposition over a given period of time... A fundamental ecological variable that measures rates of carbon consumption and fixation. Important in understanding energy flow at a community level and spatial and temporal responses of the community to a range of ecological processes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
DEF

Variable de base intégrant l'action de plusieurs facteurs écologiques.

OBS

On a défini cinq variables écologiques fondamentales : l'énergie, la matière, l'espace, le temps, la diversité spécifique.

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
DEF

The time average of the instantaneous power passing through a given transverse cross-section of a transmission line in an interval equal to the fundamental period.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
DEF

Moyenne, pendant une période, de la puissance instantanée d'une onde électromagnétique périodique qui traverse une section droite donnée d'une ligne de transmission.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Guía radárica, radioguía y radiogoniometría
DEF

Para una onda periódica, tiempo medio de la potencia instantánea que pasa a través de una sección transversal determinada de una línea de transmisión en un intervalo equivalente al período fundamental.

OBS

En una línea de transmisión.

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Record 5 2002-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Acoustics (Physics)
DEF

A sinusoidal quantity the period of which is an integral submultiple of the fundamental period of the quantity to which is related.

Key term(s)
  • sub-harmonic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acoustique (Physique)
DEF

Composante sinusoïdale dont la période est un sous-multiple entier de la période fondamentale d'une fonction périodique à laquelle elle se rapporte.

OBS

sous-harmonique : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Acústica (Física)
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