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FUSE PLUG [5 records]

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Record 1 2022-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Guns (Land Forces)
OBS

[Plugged shells are] shells fired with a plug in the hole intended for the fuse, so that they were like old-fashioned solid shot and comparatively harmless.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Canons (Forces terrestres)

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Circuits and Circuit Breakers
  • Refrigerating Machines and Appliances
OBS

type S base plug fuse : term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee(New Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • type S base plug fuze

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits électriques et coupe-circuits
  • Machines frigorifiques
OBS

fusible à bouchon de type S : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Circuits and Circuit Breakers
  • Refrigerating Machines and Appliances
OBS

type C base plug fuse : term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee(New Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • type C base plug fuze

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits électriques et coupe-circuits
  • Machines frigorifiques
OBS

fusible à bouchon de type C : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Engineering
OBS

Edison-base (type) fuse

CONT

A single plug fuse may be used as the disconnecting means for a branch circuit having one grounded conductor and feeding a 2-wire single-phase or dc motor rated at not more than 1/3 hp.

OBS

See CEC Rules 14-200 14-402(c) and 128-602(c).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrotechnique
CONT

[...] un fusible bouchon peut aussi servir de dispositif de sectionnement pour un moteur bifilaire monophasé d'une puissance nominale d'au plus 1/3 hp.

Spanish

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Record 5 1989-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dams and Causeways
OBS

Fuse plug, or Breaching section : A term sometimes used to designate an ’automatic spillway’, especially when a low dike is built across a low saddle in the rim of the reservoir basin intended to be washed out when water reaches an elevation in the spillway, which may become dangerous. It is also applied to a similar condition in a canal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Barrages et chaussées
OBS

Digue fusible : Terme employé parfois pour désigner un évacuateur automatique surtout quand une digue basse est construite à travers un col bas sur le pourtour du bassin de la retenue, afin que cette digue soit emportée, quand l'eau atteint une hauteur dans l'évacuateur, qui peut être dangereuse. Il est aussi appliqué à une condition analogue dans un canal.

Spanish

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