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Record 1 2023-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • Codes (Software)
CONT

Automatic reference counting manages object life cycles by keeping track of all valid references to an object with an internal retain count. Once all references to an object go out of scope or are cleared, and the retain count thus reaches zero, the object and its underlying memory is automatically freed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
CONT

En Objective-C, la bibliothèque standard fournit un mécanisme intégré à la classe NSObject qui permet de faciliter la gestion de la mémoire. C'est le mécanisme de comptage de références.

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Diseases
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
CONT

The decay often begins at the edge of the stem scar and extends in a sector over the shoulder and down the sides of the fruit, or it may develop all around the stem scar and go uniformly out over the shoulder area.

CONT

Likewise, concentrations of the precursor of ethylene ... were much higher in core tissues, than the inner cortex and peduncular (shoulder) tissue, while calyx and outer cortex tissues were lowest.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Maladies des plantes
  • Arboriculture fruitière
CONT

Des tomates de champ montrent un jaunissement partiel ou complet dans la zone pédonculaire, à l’épaule du fruit.

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Religion (General)
OBS

A small provincial organization founded in 1887.

OBS

Mission. To assist the Affiliated Churches in their carrying out of Christ's mandate... "... go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything that [Christ] has commanded... "(Matthew 28 : 19-20)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Religion (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Rotary Machines - Types
  • Wind Energy
DEF

The wind turbine housing [that] protects turbine components from weather.

CONT

Wind turbines should never go out in public without proper attire. All wind turbines should include a streamlined nacelle cover to soften the lines between the rotor, nacelle, and tower. A wind turbine without a nacelle cover is like a car missing its hood(bonnet)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines tournantes électriques - types
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Enveloppe qui contient les composantes motrices d'une éolienne et qui la protège des intempéries.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Máquinas rotativas eléctricas - tipos
  • Energía eólica
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Record 5 2012-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

To complete a distress a seizure of the chattels is necessary. A seizure may be either actual or constructive. It is actual by laying hands on the article, or on one of several articles, and claiming to detain it or them until the rent is satisfied. The most proper manner of making a distress is for the person distraining to go upon any part of the premises out of which the rent issues and take hold of some personal chattel declaring that it is taken as a distress in the name of all goods, or of so much as will satisfy the rent in arrear, and this will be a good seizure of all. No particular form of words is, however, necessary provided the intention is manifest.(13 Hals., 4th, pp. 155-156)

French

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

saisie effective : 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 6 2012-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Air Navigation Aids
CONT

Available modes for all HFDS include approach and landing in IMC [Instrument Meteorological Conditions] or VMC conditions [Visual Meteorological cCnditions], flare, roll out, takeoff guidance, go around, windshear alert and escape, ILS [Instrument Landing System] capture, en route and braking.

Key term(s)
  • Head Up Flight Display System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Aides à la navigation aérienne
OBS

Système d'aide à l'atterrissage tout temps. Il permet d'utiliser un avion dans des conditions de catégorie IIIB avec une hauteur de décision de 35 pieds, une visibilité horizontale de la piste de 125 m à l'atterrissage et de 75 m au décollage. Le HFDS comprend un collimateur tête haute holographique grand champ (40 degrés x 26 degrés, monté en plafond, associé à un calculateur et à un panneau de commande installé en console centrale

Key term(s)
  • Head Up Flight Display System

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Restaurants
  • Commercial Establishments
CONT

Think of the food court at the mall. Most of the time, mallsters will go there looking for food in general, then decide what to eat after they’ve checked out the selection. The eaters benefit because they don’t have to wander all over the mall looking for lunch, and the feeders benefit from the added exposure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Catégories de restaurants
  • Établissements commerciaux
DEF

Partie d'un lieu public tel qu'une gare, un aéroport ou un centre commercial, où sont regroupés des restaurants et des commerces d'alimentation, généralement en libre-service.

CONT

Nous voyons émerger un nouveau concept d'organisation où le centre commercial regroupe par fonctions apparentées ses établissements commerciaux : espace-mode, espace-restauration, espace-culture.

OBS

Le regroupement permet aux restaurateurs de mettre en commun un certain nombre de ressources et de services.

OBS

aire de restauration : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 27 août 2008.

OBS

aire de restauration; espace-restauration : termes entérinés par le Comité de linguistique de Radio-Canada et le Secrétariat d'État du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
DEF

A hypothetical [reactor] accident in which all three independent secondary sodium circuits suddenly and simultaneously go out of action.

OBS

In this case the residual power in the core would be removed mainly by convection through the reactor vessels to the emergency cooling system. The temperature of the reactor block would rise until the power removed by thermal radiation offset the residual power, which would decrease over time. To ensure that all the reactor structures remain undamaged, this temperature must be below 720°C.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
CONT

[…] il peut arriver que les pompes primaires et les boucles secondaires soient indisponibles : c'est l'accident de disparition des circuits normaux d'évacuation de la puissance (DCNEP). On estime que cet accident ne devrait pas arriver plus d'une fois dans la vie de la centrale.

Key term(s)
  • D.C.N.E.P.

Spanish

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Record 9 2009-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Railroad Safety
  • Rail Networks
CONT

In order to avoid creating an unsafe condition, when the signal is taken "Off" for an approaching train and crank handle is also available for the operation of the points, it is necessary that the crank handle be kept in safe custody. The experience has shown that the better arrangement is to lock the crank handle by an electric lock whenever the concerned signal is taken Off so that it is not possible for anybody to use the crank handle for operation of the points. Alternatively, if crank handle is out, the signal should not be allowed to go to Off position. The phenomenon is called "reciprocal interlocking" and it is achieved by providing reciprocal interlocking arrangement by means of circuitry and the electric lock fixed on the crank handle. In all modern signalling installations this feature is a must in order to achieve safe train operation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité (Transport par rail)
  • Réseaux ferroviaires
CONT

Enclenchements réciprocques. L'enclenchement mécanique, par pièces rigides, entraîne toujours la réciprocité d'action.

Spanish

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Record 10 2009-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Waste Management
CONT

Montreal' s ecocentres are a great way for residents to contribute to reusing, recovering and recycling waste materials. This is where you can take all those items that you can’t put out for regular garbage pick-up. By encouraging sorting at the source, ecocentres make it possible to reuse or recover recyclables and go a long way toward reducing the amount of waste that ends up in the dump.

Key term(s)
  • ecocenter
  • eco-center

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des déchets
CONT

L'écocentre est un site de réemploi, de récupération et de valorisation de matières résiduelles mis à la disposition de l'ensemble des citoyens de l'agglomération de Montréal. On y reçoit des matières qui ne sont pas acceptées dans la collecte régulière des ordures ménagères telles que : vêtements, électroménagers, encombrants, matériaux de construction ou de démolition, pneus usés, résidus domestiques dangereux (RDD), bois, terre, etc. En favorisant le tri à la source des matières, l'écocentre permet de réemployer ou récupérer des matières recyclables et contribue ainsi à la réduction de la masse des déchets.

Spanish

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Record 11 2006-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Education Theory and Methods
CONT

When employees know only one script, they aren’t particularly adaptable. If all that the training has taught them is the company-approved way to perform their jobs, they’ll be completely lost when a job doesn’t go according to the script. At a time when change is omnipresent in the work world, it makes sense to let workers experience a script failure during training. Out of this failure, they can learn to create a new script and adjust when things don’t go exactly as planned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Internet et télématique
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
CONT

Le business plan doit être réactualisé en fonction de l'évolution du projet et prévoir des solutions de repli en cas d'échec du scénario initial.

OBS

Pluriel : des scénarios.

OBS

scénarios (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Capacitación del personal
  • Internet y telemática
  • Teorías y métodos pedagógicos
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Record 12 2003-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
CONT

The mechanics of MEOR at a molecular level are really quite simple, but must be thoroughly understood to assess both the efficiency and the efficacy of the process. The microbes in MEOR are simply hydrocarbon-utilizing, non-pathogenic microorganisms which are endemic to, and are naturally-occurring in petroleum reservoirs. What this means is, they naturally exist in reservoirs, are safe for plants, animals and humans, and ingest hydrocarbons as a food source which they metabolize. As a result of this "digestive" process, they then excrete bio-products such as alcohols, gases, acids, surfactants and polymers, which because of their origin are all natural and non-toxic.... Changes in the Crude [:] The gases excreted by the microorganisms go immediately into solution in the crude, making it a solution gas drive reservoir once again. The gases, solvents and weak acids cause a reduction in the viscosity and the pour point of the crude, and an increase in its API(or specific) gravity. These three changes cause the oil to be thinner and to flow more freely. Some of the microorganisms inhibit the activity of SRB's, or sulfate-reducing bacteria, which also occur naturally in reservoirs, but cause corrosion in metal parts and produce the deadly H2S(hydrogen sulfide) gas. Changes in the Reservoir Rock [:] The surfactants, acids and solvents clean out the paraffin wax and the heavy crude depositions in the pores of the rock improving the permeability and partially restoring the original porosity of the rock. The polymers help modify the permeability of the rock by reducing the size of the molecules of reservoir fluids, and help prevent and control water-coning problems. The acids, solvents, alcohols and surfactants remove metal traces from the poral throats of the rock, helping to restore the original porosity and permeability of the reservoir rock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
CONT

L'utilisation des techniques de recombinaison de l'ADN pourrait conduire également à la mise au point de micro-organismes améliorés destinés à être injectés directement dans les puits de pétrole. Pour qu'un micro-organisme soit commercialement utilisable, il doit être à même de survivre dans les conditions sévères de température, de salinité et de pression. Une fois dans le puits, le micro-organisme produirait soit un gaz pour remettre le puits sous pression, soit des agents tensio-actifs ou des émulsifiants pour diminuer la viscosité du pétrole. L'utilisation des techniques de recombinaison de l'ADN pourrait contribuer à accroître de façon significative les réserves mondiales récupérables de pétrole.

Spanish

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Record 13 2003-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Launching and Space Maneuvering
CONT

The third approach, lunar orbit rendezvous, was proposed after the first two and became the best practical approach to meet all the requirements. The approach and its challenges can be described in a single long sentence : Take off from Earth, which is rotating approximately 1, 000 mph, orbit the Earth at 18, 000 mph, accelerate to 25, 000 mph to break out of Earth's orbit toward the moon 250, 000 miles away and, traveling 2, 000 mph relative to the Earth, go into lunar orbit, send a manned spacecraft to land on the moon to explore and leave scientific instruments before returning to lunar orbit, rendezvous with the rest of the spacecraft, and then blast out of lunar orbit back to Earth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lancement et manœuvres dans l'espace
CONT

Après le rendez-vous, la propulsion du vaisseau le fait sortir de l'orbite lunaire et le renvoie vers la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 14 1995-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
OBS

Colloquial expression with a pejorative undertone, used to describe the behavior of certain tennis players who do not know how to temper their shots and who take unnecessary chances. More neutral expressions in the same register : to go all out, to give it all you’ve got, to turn it up a notch, to elevate one's game, to step into overdrive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

Phraséologie connexe: donner le meilleur de soi-même.

CONT

Quant à l'erreur tactique qui consiste à tenter le tout pour le tout sur la première balle [de service], quitte, si nécessaire, à se résigner à un deuxième service ridiculement facile [...]

Spanish

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Record 15 - external organization data 1995-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

One method used to uncover all the things that could go wrong is the "event tree/fault tree" analysis technique. Event tree work is not unlike following a multi-branched trail of dominoes as they knock each other over in sequence. Such analysis allows the tracing of things that could occur after the initiating events. Paths of action and consequences are traced, sometimes to great length. The fault tree technique, a favorite tool of AECB staff members, is a means of finding out what combinations of component and system failures would cause an event in the first place. It provides a systematic method of checking that the systems being relied on to prevent something worse happening won’t be knocked out by the event itself.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

Pour déterminer quels éléments pourraient être défectueux, on utilise notamment la technique dite «arbre d'événements et arbre de défaillances». Utiliser cette méthode, c'est un peu comme suivre des dominos alignés suivant un parcours à plusieurs embranchements. On établit ainsi les événements qui pourraient se produire après l'événement initial et on trace des plans d'action linéaires (parfois très longs) et leurs répercussions en cascade. L'arbre de défaillance est l'instrument préféré des spécialistes de la CCEA, car il leur permet de déterminer les combinaisons de défaillances des composants et des systèmes qui pourraient être à l'origine d'un événement. C'est là une façon rigoureuse de s'assurer que le système mis en place pour empêcher des conséquences plus graves ne sera pas neutralisé par l'événement lui-même.

Spanish

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Record 16 - external organization data 1995-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

One method used to uncover all the things that could go wrong is the "event tree/fault tree" analysis technique. Event tree work is not unlike following a multi-branched trail of dominoes as they knock each other over in sequence. Such analysis allows the tracing of things that could occur after the initiating events. Paths of action and consequences are traced, sometimes to great length. The fault tree technique, a favorite tool of AECB staff members, is a means of finding out what combinations of component and system failures would cause an event in the first place. It provides a systematic method of checking that the systems being relied on to prevent something worse happening won’t be knocked out by the event itself.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

Pour déterminer quels éléments pourraient être défectueux, on utilise notamment la technique dite «arbre d'événements et arbre de défaillances». Utiliser cette méthode, c'est un peu comme suivre des dominos alignés suivant un parcours à plusieurs embranchements. On établit ainsi les événements qui pourraient se produire après l'événement initial et on trace des plans d'action linéaires (parfois très longs) et leurs répercussions en cascade. L'arbre de défaillance est l'instrument préféré des spécialistes de la CCEA, car il leur permet de déterminer les combinaisons de défaillances des composants et des systèmes qui pourraient être à l'origine d'un événement. C'est là une façon rigoureuse de s'assurer que le système mis en place pour empêcher des conséquences plus graves ne sera pas neutralisé par l'événement lui-même.

Spanish

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Record 17 1989-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

While knowledge and an awareness of Dow Theory, the Elliott Principle,... and all the rest are important, nevertheless the most reliable method of spotting a major reversal in the stock market is to go through the individual stock charts one by one to pick out individual accumulation patterns.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Bien que la connaissance de la théorie de Dow, du principe d'Elliott, (...) soit importante, la méthode la plus sûre pour déceler un renversement important du marché est de bien observer les graphiques de titres particuliers, un par un, et de sélectionner les formations d'accumulation individuelles (...)

Spanish

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Record 18 1985-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

Analog line generators bring all the advantages and disadvantages of analog hardware to a display system. They are fast, inexpensive, and can generate smooth lines, but they can drift with temperature changes, go out of calibration, and have trouble repetitively drawing exactly the same line at the same screen location.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie

Spanish

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