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GO NO GO [53 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2025-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Visual Disorders
CONT

Age-related macular degeneration is the most common cause of severe loss of eyesight among people 50 and older. Only the center of vision is affected with this disease. It is important to realize that people rarely go blind from it. AMD affects the central vision, and with it, the ability to see fine details. In AMD, a part of the retina called the macula is damaged. In advanced stages, people lose their ability to drive, to see faces, and to read smaller print. In its early stages, AMD may have no signs or symptoms, so people may not suspect they have it.

OBS

Age-related macular degeneration is the late stage of age-related maculopathy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles de la vision
CONT

La DMLA est une dégénérescence de la partie centrale de la rétine appelée macula. Cette pathologie est la première cause de handicap visuel chez les plus de 50 ans.

OBS

La dégénérescence maculaire liée à l'âge correspond au stade avancé de la maculopathie liée à l'âge.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trastornos de la visión
DEF

Ceguera bilateral [que] se relaciona con la edad, siendo la edad media de aparición de la ceguera en el primer ojo a los 65 años, [se trata de un] proceso degenerativo que [...] afecta a la retina, en concreto, a la zona central de la retina o macular.

PHR

Degeneración macular asociada a la edad exudativa.

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Record 2 2024-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Security
CONT

Security must not be confused with securitarianism, an obsession with security. Of course we need to defend our security, but it cannot go at the expense of the values we stand for. Because there can be no real security without freedom.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
CONT

Le sécuritarisme, qui est un appel à plus de contrôle, plus de sécurité, plus d'armées, de polices, de frontières, etc.

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Signalling (Road Transport)
CONT

A green arrow... indicates [that a person] may turn in the direction of the arrow. A green arrow pointing straight means that no turn is permitted and drivers can only go straight through. A flashing green arrow with a steady green light means drivers may turn in the direction of the arrow or proceed through.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Signalisation routière

Spanish

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Record 4 2023-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Fitness Training and Bodybuilding
DEF

A bodybuilding exercise performed by completing the following movements : sitting on a bench with the upper arms resting on an inclined padded support, hold a barbell or dumbbells with a supinated grip(palms facing up). Contract only your biceps to raise the weight through an arc until you can go no further, almost reaching your shoulders. Lower the weight back to the starting position.

OBS

This exercise targets the biceps. If dumbbells are used, it can also be performed one hand at a time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conditionnement physique et culturisme
DEF

Exercice de musculation qui s'exécute en effectuant les mouvements suivants : assis sur un banc, avec le haut des bras reposant sur un appui rembourré incliné, prenez une barre ou des haltères avec les mains en supination (les paumes vers le haut). Par la seule contraction des biceps, soulevez les poids aussi loin que possible jusqu'à ce qu'ils atteignent presque vos épaules. Revenez ensuite en position de départ.

OBS

Cet exercice sollicite les biceps. S'il est effectué avec des haltères, il peut s'exécuter un bras à la fois.

Spanish

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Record 5 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Team Sports (General)
DEF

A situation in a game where all the players allowed by the rules are on the field.

CONT

Full strength(also called 5-on-5) in ice hockey refers to when both teams have five skaters and one goaltender on the ice. The official term used by the National Hockey League(NHL) is at even strength — abbreviated EV on official scoresheets and goaltenders’ individual stats. All games start with both teams at full strength. Teams that take a penalty, go on the power play, or pull the goalie are no longer at full strength.

CONT

If the penalised team concedes a goal – called a powerplay goal – the teams return to even strength.

OBS

X-on-X : in this term, the "X" refers to the number of players allowed by the sport.

OBS

even strength : synonym of "full strength" when both teams have all their players allowed by the rules on the field.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports d'équipe (Généralités)
DEF

Situation de jeu où tous les joueurs admis par le règlement du sport sont présents sur le terrain.

CONT

Substitution immédiate-Alignement complet.

OBS

X contre X; jeu à X contre X : pour ces termes, le «X» représente le nombre de joueurs admis pour le sport.

Spanish

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Record 6 2020-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Bird Watching (Hobbies)
CONT

Incidental observations are casual wildlife sightings that happen when you’re outside – hiking, camping, swimming, driving, etc. Spotting a species in the "right place at the right time" can have a far-reaching effect. Knowing what species are present in different locations helps identify areas that are important (e.g. breeding sites, hibernation sites, migration routes, etc.), which also helps to improve conservation efforts.

CONT

Chance observations provided the earliest data on raptor diet, and are still recorded today. These are the events all naturalists happen to see, such as a flying buzzard with an especially long snake dangling limply below it... There was no forethought to go and record what buzzards were eating, but having seen something exciting the observer may want to record it in a local bird report or online. Why should a modern scientist bother with such unsystematic data when trying to make an assessment of buzzard diet?... while such chance observations can’t be used on their own to understand common buzzard behaviour, they do supplement the more rigorous data collection and help to complete the picture of diet diversity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Observation des oiseaux (Passe-temps)
CONT

Consigner les observations fortuites d'animaux sauvages constitue un moyen peu coûteux et efficace de recueillir des renseignements sur les tendances à long terme de l'abondance et de la répartition des espèces sauvages. C'est également une activité à laquelle les visiteurs du parc peuvent participer et ainsi contribuer à la surveillance de l'intégrité écologique du parc. Dans le parc national des Monts-Torngat et ses environs, ces observations sont consignées sur des fiches dont les données sont saisies dans une base de données.

Spanish

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Record 7 2017-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
CONT

The FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] cites one occurrence in which all four displays in an aircraft simultaneously went blank during flight and did not recover until the crew pulled circuit breakers... Honeywell says no other Epic functionality or aircraft systems were affected by the event. The avionics manufacturer has identified several scenarios where reversion-logic software algorithms in the Epic advanced graphics module can respond incorrectly to certain failure conditions and one or all of the displays can go blank.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)

Spanish

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Record 8 2017-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Machine Shafts, Journals and Swivels
CONT

Clearance fits are used when the hole diameter is larger than the shaft diameter :... where there will be no relative movement between parts after assembly, but the parts will go together easily-known as the sliding fit.

OBS

sliding fit: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arbres et tourillons (Composants mécaniques)
CONT

Dans l'ajustement glissant, qui est celui d'un assemblage de précision, chaque pièce doit avoir, par rapport à l'autre, une position exactement fixée. Le jeu doit être le plus réduit possible. Cet ajustement convient à un assemblage démontable ou à une pièce ayant un mouvement de rotation de précision.

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 9 2016-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

A purported marriage in which all the formal requirements are met or seemingly met, but in which the parties go through the ceremony with no intent of living together as husband and wife.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
OBS

Cette notion couvre à la fois des mariages à des fins d’immigration et des mariages contractés pour différentes raisons telle que se marier pour obtenir un emploi ou des avantages.

OBS

mariage simulé : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 10 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

The ship could have been sent in due course, but by the time it was ready and available the original purpose of the intended charter-party could not be fulfilled. Therefore, there was "practical" impossibility, or "frustration", even though there was no physical impossibility... The commercial purpose of the original contract has been frustrated; to go on when the delaying act or event has concluded its effects would be to bind the parties by a new contract, in new and different circumstances.

OBS

The current trend in the United States is to abandon the very word "impossible" and "impossibility" and to use instead the terms "impracticable" and "impracticability". This change seems, morever, to be intended to widen the scope of the doctrine of discharge by supervening events.

OBS

From the standpoint of the performing party.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
CONT

[...] la résolution du contrat a pour effet de l'anéantir et de remettre les parties en l'état où elles se trouvaient antérieurement sous la seule réserve de l'impossibilité pratique [...]

OBS

Du point de vue du prestataire.

OBS

impossibilité pratique : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 11 2015-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
  • Water Transport
CONT

No pilot is bound to go on board a vessel in distress to render pilot service for mere pilotage reward; if he did take charge of a vessel so circumstanced he would be entitled to a salvage remuneration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime
  • Transport par eau

Spanish

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Record 12 2014-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
OBS

By our assumption that there is no capital to clutter up the labor-and-land model, all other returns must go for land rent.

Key term(s)
  • labour and land model

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques

Spanish

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Record 13 2013-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

In R. v. Bathurst, Lord Parker, C. J. suggested the appropriate type of comment :"The accused is not bound to go into the witness box, no one can force him to go into the witness box, but the burden is upon him and if he does not, he runs the risk of not being able to prove his case. "(Fed./Prov. Task Force, p. 356)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

prouver ses prétention; prouver sa cause : termes normalisés 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 14 2013-04-26

English

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

Tail male general is the same thing as tail male; the word "general", in such case, implying that there is no other restriction upon the descent of the estate than that it must go in the male line.... The word "general", in the phrase, expresses a purely negative idea, and may denote the absence of any restriction, or the absence of some given restriction which is tacitly understood.(Black, 5th, p. 1303)

French

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

fief taillé ordinaire en ligne masculine : 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 15 2012-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
CONT

The judges of election may appoint some capable person to act as election constable during the election, and he shall have the power to make arrests for disturbance of the peace, as provided by law for constables, and he shall allow no one within the voting area except those who go to vote, and shall allow but one elector in a compartment at one time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques

Spanish

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Record 16 2012-10-17

English

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

The law recognizes "absolutely vested remainders", in which taking by specified individual is directed without any proviso or limitation, "contingently vested remainders" or "remainders vested subject to being divested", in which remainder is given to one person, with proviso that it shall go to another under certain contingencies, and "contingent remainders", where there is no person having immediate right of possession on cessation of intermediate or precedent estate.(Words and Phrases/U. S. ", v. 9, p. 239)

French

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

résidu dévolu sous réserve : 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 17 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 18 2012-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

The result of hitting the tennis ball with a tennis racquet; sometimes refers to the actual placement of the ball or manner in which it is struck.

CONT

A shot is the combination of a stroke and the situation in which it is used.

OBS

"Long" is an informal expression used to indicate that a shot went out past the baseline. Important nuance: a "stroke" implies early preparation and a complete follow through. If one were to envision a stroke, one would see a series of sequences, ending with a "shot", i.e. the result of all of the above. Consequently, a "shot" is the result of the "stroke". "Shot" implies a quick, sharp movement because one is focusing on the end result, not the series of sequences leading up to it. A "blow" is rather an imprecise, general term similar in meaning to "shot". Although many would like to maintain these nuances in English, "shot" and "stroke" are often used synonymously. "Blow" is used only rarely. Note, however that although there are two possible equivalents ("coup" and "frappe") in French, neither are semantically identical to the English offerings. The Spanish term "pegada" works well as an equivalent for "shot", although technically the term more specifically refers to the actual hitting action caused by the racket coming in contact with the ball, and not to the end result [cause vs effect].

CONT

Keeping your feet wide apart is an important key to maintaining good balance and positioning while moving from shot to shot.

CONT

Since his injury in the first set, he has lost a lot of sting in his shots.

PHR

Shape, strength of shot. Barrage, range, string of shots.

PHR

Shot bounces. Shot drifts wide. Shot has no pace on it. Shot will go/sail long.

PHR

Accurate, aggressive, angled, approach, bread-and-butter, buggywhip, chip, cinch, crafty, cross-court, crummy, decisive, deep, defensive, delicate, down-the-line, down-the-T, drop, extraordinary, fantastic, fast, floating, floppy, follow-up, forcing, gutsy, hard, hard-to-read, high-risk, inside-out, kill, laser, looping, loose, low, low-percentage, low-risk, mammoth, midcourt, off-centre, offensive, outside-in, passing, percentage, power, pressure, recovery, risky, safe, set-up, shallow, sharp-angled, short, showoff, sloppy, soft, spin, strong, tactical, topspin, touch, tough, tricky, two-handed, underspin, varied, vicious, wide, winning, wrongfooting shot.

PHR

Irretrievable key shot.

PHR

To admire, angle, anticipate, attack, baby, block, bungle, center, chop down, conceal, cut off, develop, dip, direct, flatten out, go for, guide, handle, hit, hold, improvise, intercept, lean into, line up, make, meet, miss, move into, muff, muscle, net, place, play, pop up, practice, pull off, put away, retrieve, rifle, run down, rush through, send, set up, smack, spray, step into, take, target, telegraph, time, track, underspin, unleash a shot.

PHR

To add pep to a shot. To approach behind a shot. To be cute with a shot. To react to a shot. To scoop down for a shot. To put one’s whole body behind shot. To get one’s weight behind/into the shot. To mix up shots. To stream together shots.

PHR

To raise a shot high. To telegraph shop direction. To whip a shot up/down the line.

PHR

Crushing shots. Filing one’s body into a shot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

[...] Rien pour embarrasser François dont la régularité des coups en fond de terrain et la grande ténacité font de ce jeune joueur le champion canadien des 14 ans et moins.

CONT

[...] ses coups assenés du fond du court avec cette insolente précision qui blanchit les lignes.

PHR

Coup d'approche, d'attaque, en angle, audacieux, de base, de contre-attaque, coupé, croisé, décentré, décisif, défensif, déguisé, dévastateur, époustouflant, d'expert, explosif, faiblard, fantaisiste, fatal, de grande classe, lourd, mal ajusté, offensif, plat, précis, puissant, raté, retenu, risque, souple, spectaculaire, tordu.

PHR

Puissance, tempo d'un coup. Déroulement du coup. Gamme, production des coups.

PHR

Anticiper, appuyer, centrer, ralentir, rater, tourner un coup.

PHR

Assurer un bon centrage d'un coup. Laisser aller ses coups.

PHR

Sortir des coups impressionnants.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
DEF

Efecto de jugar a pegar golpes a una pelota.

CONT

Cualidades que debe poseer un buen servicio [...] Variación constante de la pegada (plana o con efecto).

CONT

Vuelta a la posición de espera tardía, lo que hace dejar un hueco en el que nuestro adversario dirigirá su próximo tiro.

PHR

Tiro angulado. Golpe definitivo, defensivo, estático, violento.

PHR

Un golpe lleva efecto.

PHR

Angular un tiro.

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Record 19 2011-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

A Go-NoGo gauge(or Go/no go) refers to an inspection tool used to check a workpiece against its allowed tolerances. Its name derives from its use : the gauge itself has two tests; the check involves the workpiece's having to pass one test(Go) and ’fail' the other(No Go).... A Go NoGo gauge is a measuring tool that does not return a size in the conventional sense, but instead returns a state. The state is either acceptable(the part is within tolerance and may be used) or it is unacceptable(and must be rejected).

Key term(s)
  • go, no-go gage
  • go-nogo gage
  • go-nogo adapter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
CONT

Le principe du contrôle d'une grandeur mécanique par calibre à limite est basé sur l'utilisation d'un calibre ENTRE et d'un calibre N'ENTRE PAS parfois appelés GO et NO GO. Ce contrôle ne donne pas de renseignement sur la valeur de la grandeur. En revanche, il renseigne sur le fait que la grandeur mesurée est dans la tolérance spécifiée et nécessaire pour assurer le fonctionnement d'un ensemble mécanique. C'est donc en principe un contrôle de fabrication ou même de réception mais ce n'est pas une mesure. Les calibres à limite ne sont pas des appareils mesureurs (comme un pied à coulisse par exemple). Son avantage réside dans la simplicité et la rapidité de la mesure. Elle permet un tri des pièces mais elle ne permettra pas de faire un diagnostic sur une éventuelle non-conformité. La grandeur mesurée est dite dans la tolérance si : [Le] calibre ENTRE n'interfère pas avec la grandeur, c’est-à-dire pénètre. [Le] calibre N'ENTRE PAS interfère avec la grandeur, c’est-à-dire ne pénètre pas.

OBS

calibre entre n'entre pas : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

Spanish

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Record 20 2011-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Golf
DEF

Type of iron that has the smallest degree of loft and includes the 1-4 irons.

CONT

Players should have no trouble clearing the fairway bunkers on the right, although many will go with a long iron off the tee.

OBS

The 1-iron, 2-iron, 3-iron, and 4-iron are considered long irons. The 5-iron, 6-iron, and 7-iron are medium irons, whereas the 8-iron and the 9-iron are short irons. The sand wedge, the pitching wedge, and the lob wedge are sometimes considered short irons as well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Golf
DEF

type de fer dont l'angle d'ouverture de la face est peu ouvert et qui comprend les nos 1 à 4.

CONT

[...] si le trou nécessite un coup d'approche de fer long ou un coup de bois, le trou devrait être placé plus loin vers l'arrière du vert et plus éloigné des côtés comparativement à un trou où le coup d'approche requiert l'utilisation d'un fer d'approche [...]

OBS

Il y a trois catégories de fers : les nos 1 à 4 sont les fers longs, les nos 5 à 7 sont les fers moyens et les nos 8 et 9 sont les fers courts. Certains cocheurs, c'est-à-dire le cocheur d'allée, le cocheur de sable et le cocheur de lob, sont parfois considérés comme étant des fers courts.

Key term(s)
  • fer à longue portée

Spanish

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Record 21 2010-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
OBS

CTAC-3, 4. 79. Refers to flying equipment that does not work properly but without interfering with secure flying. Flying equipment needing immediate action is known as deferred no go item and is registered on the no go(or Minimum Equipment) list.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

AEAS 30, 6.71, 62. 1. La surveillance (...) permettra de déceler à l'avance la tendance à la panne (...) 2. La redondance (...) permettra la transformation d'un "NO GO" rébarbatif en "NO GO différé". Le terme s'applique à l'intervention.

Spanish

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Record 22 2009-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Federal Administration
OBS

DataViz Enterprise Resources. Documents To Go is a powerful word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, PDF and decompression application all in one complete package, designed to help you get your work done no matter where you are. Since it is full featured yet easy to use, Documents To Go is a mobile office suite that makes good business sense.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Administration fédérale

Spanish

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Record 23 2009-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Transport
  • Maritime Law
CONT

[In the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations] "home-trade voyage, Class II", means a home-trade voyage in the course of which(a) on the Atlantic coast, a ship does not go south of the port of New York, or on the Pacific Coast, a ship does not go south of Portland, Oregon,(b) the ship is at no time more than 120 miles off shore, and(c) the distance between suitable ports of refuge on the voyage does not exceed 200 nautical miles.

OBS

home trade voyage: From the federal certification project (Marine Certification Regulations Section 33) to become effective after 1996.

Key term(s)
  • home trade voyage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par eau
  • Droit maritime
OBS

«cabotage» : Navigation marchande non loin des côtes. [...] Le cabotage est international s'il se fait entre ports nationaux et étrangers; national s'il ne se fait qu'entre ports nationaux.

OBS

voyage de cabotage : Extrait du projet de règlement fédéral (Règlement sur la délivrance des brevets et des certificats - Marine Article 33) qui entrera en vigueur après 1996.

Spanish

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Record 24 2009-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

Ecologists believe that every ecosystem undergoes an aging process where, in the young stage, the ecological community is relatively simple(few species) and has extensive oxygen sources. As the community ages more species are added and greater demands are put on the oxygen supply and energy necessary for life. When the community reaches a saturation point it is said to have become a climax community-with no place to go but down.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
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Record 25 2008-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Duties may be non-legal(moral, natural, religious, or other) or legal... but not all moral or natural duties are also legal, e. g. not to be ungrateful or uncharitable.... Conversely many legal duties arise in circumstances where there is no moral duty or go beyond moral duty. But the existence of moral duty has been a powerful factor in influencing systems of law to recognize a legal duty, e. g. to avoid injury to one who obviously might be injured by failure to take care, or to seek to rescue persons in trouble.

OBS

as opposed to "legal duty".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 26 2008-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
CONT

Donut Nectarine. Also known as a "Flat Nectarine" or "Saturn Nectarine", this is a recent mutation of flat peach with whom it shares the qualities.

OBS

A nectarine is a mutation of peach from fuzzy skinned to no fuzzy skinned, or glaucoused from pubescence. There are a number of factors that go along with the glaucous skin of the nectarine. Nectarines generally have more red color in the skin, smaller size, more sugars, more acids, and higher density.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)
CONT

[Des] nectarines plates viennent d'être créés : elles conservent le goût de pêche mais leur aspect extérieur et leur forme peuvent les faire apparaître comme un fruit nouveau.

Spanish

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Record 27 2008-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Systems
CONT

The monitor panel consists of a series of status and malfunction lights. During normal operation the green status lights are on. If a malfunction occurs, the green lights will go out and red lights will come on. The malfunction lights will indicate red only when a malfunction occurs; there is no indication from them during normal operation. The cylinder elongation readout, an 8-day, 24-hour-dial aircraft clock, and the launching-valve stroke-timer indicators, light-switch units, and fuses are also on the monitor panel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits des aéronefs
OBS

Le panneau de contrôle est équipé de voyants qui indiquent l'état de fonctionnement des circuits. En cas de défaillance d'un circuit, le voyant vert s'éteint et le rouge correspondant s'allume.

OBS

panneau de contrôle : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

Spanish

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Record 28 2008-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
CONT

The challenges of running your operation don’t go away just because it is no longer day-shift. An efficient multi-shift operation must have skill balance. This means that the evening, night, and weekend hours must by covered by crews that include at least a minimum number of skilled personnel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
CONT

Les systèmes d'exploitation à plusieurs équipes à la totalité desquelles le travailleur participe successivement sont soumis aux conditions suivantes : durée maximale de travail : 10 heures [...]; rotation des équipes du matin vers le soir, du soir vers la nuit et de la nuit vers le matin [...]; le travail supplémentaire n'est pas admis que les jours ouvrables ordinairement chômés [...]

Spanish

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Record 29 2005-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Proverbs and Maxims
CONT

There is absolutely no doubt that money makes the mare go, but one should not forget that money is not everything.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Proverbes et dictons

Spanish

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Record 30 2005-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
  • Political Science (General)
DEF

Making it compulsory for candidates to official posts to be bilingual.

CONT

The [linguistic] unease was enough to lead voters in three states--Florida, Arizona and Colorado--to support English-as-the-official-language propositions, bringing the total of such states to 17. It's hard to know what to make of the trend. Is it based on the fear that America will go the way of Quebec, where aspirants to public office must speak both English and French... But then I look at Miami, where the disadvantages are more likely to accrue to those who cannot speak Spanish, where it is not difficult to imagine a successful mayoral campaign being undertaken by a candidate who speaks little or no English, and I wonder if those who fear the Quebecking of sections of America may not just have a point.(The Guardian, 8 Jan. 1989, p. 19;5).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 31 2004-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

Breaking takes between 4 and 6 weeks, though longer may be required if horses have had little handling. All horses here basically go through the same breaking program, regardless of their final intended use. Your horse is tied up to the tie-up-poles, where there is minimal risk of injury if he pulls back. In the round-pen, he will be hobbled, bridled, and saddled. He will be lunged with a saddle on, carrying the bit but no reins. Next, he will de driven(long reined). This starts to develop steering on the horse, stopping and backing up. Then he will be ridden in the round-pen until he is balanced with a rider, can steer, stop and back up. Then it is outside to do the same.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cría de ganado caballar
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
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Record 32 2004-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Pregnancy
DEF

A condition in which there is bloody discharge from the uterus but the loss of blood is less than in inevitable abortion and there is no dilatation of the cervix; it may proceed to actual abortion or the symptoms may subside and the pregnancy go to full term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Grossesse
OBS

Elle se manifeste par : des métrorragies peu abondantes, brunâtres, noirâtres ou rouges, des pelvialgies à type de coliques utérines, une diminution de la tension mammaire.

Spanish

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Record 33 2003-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Mathematics
DEF

Having a branching, treelike structure or pattern.

CONT

A tip can be either unstable and go through repeated tip splittings, or stable, and lead to dendritic growth. Unstable tips result in disordered structures with no apparent symmetry. If the tips are stable, in the sense that small perturbations around their stationary shape decay relatively quickly, the obtained patterns have a symmetry of varying degree.

CONT

At about m=5, the random, tip-splitting structure for DLA clusters crosses over into a dendritic pattern with well-defined but irregularly spaced side branches having stable tips.

CONT

There are two basic types of dendritic crystallization: i) in a pure undercooled liquid and, ii) in an isothermal liquid mixture.

OBS

Term derived from crystallography.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Mathématiques
DEF

Qui présente des ramifications.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gráficos de computadora
  • Matemáticas
DEF

De figura de dendrita.

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Record 34 2003-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The trial judge determines as a matter of law whether an occasion is privileged. If so found, and there is no evidence of malice, the action must be dismissed. If there is no privilege, or if there is evidence of malice, or if the privilege has been exceeded, the case must then go to the jury. The distinction has been said to be between what is a "privileged occasion" and what is a "privileged communication"-the judge decides the former, the jury the latter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Le juge du procès décide, puisqu'il s'agit d'une question de droit, si l'immunité joue dans une situation donnée. Dans l'affirmative, l'action doit être rejetée s'il n'y a pas de preuve d'une intention de nuire. Dans la négative, ou si on apporte cette preuve, ou si l'on a outrepassé l'immunité, le jury doit être saisi de l'affaire. Il a été déclaré qu'on doit faire la distinction entre « une situation privilégiée » et « une communication privilégiée » : la première relève de la décision du juge et la deuxième du jury.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
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Record 35 2003-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Networks
  • Underground Planning (Urban Studies)
CONT

Following the uproar that greeted proposals in the sixties and seventies to build a freeway along the left bank of the Seine, Paris found its solution in going underground. Paris now has built or is building over 100 kilometers of high speed limited access underground roads that speed traffic under Paris along routes traffic could never follow above ground.

CONT

... speed limits will be 45 miles per hour... as opoosed to the 55-and 65-mile-per-hour limits on other parts of the interstate highway system. Also, traffic will go in only one direction in each tube, reducing the risk of head-on collisions. And a system of height detectors and cameras will help highway operators to spot trucks that are too large or carrying hazardous materials before they reach the tunnels. No hazardous materials will be allowed in the subterranean roads.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réseaux routiers
  • Aménagement souterrain (Urbanisme)
CONT

Alors que la solution permettant la diminution des transits consiste d'abord en une politique nouvelle d'infrastructure, le désencombrement de la zone centrale ne peut être traité de la même manière. Si chacun est convaincu de l'impossibilité d'ouvrir de nouvelles voies de surface en zone dense, d'aucuns imaginent qu'il suffit de créer des voies souterraines. Des projets ont existé pour Paris; [...]. Outre le coût gigantesque de tels ouvrages, conduisant à des péages prohibitifs et donc à une rentabilité incertaine, le simple bon sens montre que l'on ne ferait ainsi que déplacer l'encombrement, puisqu'il faut bien utiliser la voirie de surface pour entrer et sortir des tunnels.

Spanish

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Record 36 2003-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

A law firm that cannot litigate is like a fighter with a glass jaw. The first time the opponent makes contact, the fighter will go down for a "ten count"... We have no "glass jaws" and, when you case warrants, we eagerly "step into the ring. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 37 2002-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
CONT

The solar wind particles flowing directly from the Sun toward the Earth encounter the magnetosphere much as water in a swift stream comes upon a large rock. The solar wind particles must go around the magnetosphere obstacle, but at their high speed there is no time for an orderly detour. Instead, their direction is changed abruptly in the bow shock region just outside the Sunward magnetic field.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
  • Rayonnements électromagnétiques
DEF

Zone de rencontre du vent solaire avec le champ magnétique de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 38 2001-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial and Economic Psychology
DEF

Theory which compares naked self-interest with cooperation.

OBS

You and a friend have been caught by the police with a stolen car. They rightly suspect both of you of another, more serious offence, but have no proof. You are being held in separate cells and cannot communicate. The police offer you a deal : if you tell them about your friend's other crime you will not be charged with stealing the car. You surmise that they have offered your friend the same deal. What do you do? If you both stay silent, both of you will be charged with the lesser crime-a good result. If both of you talk, both will go to jail for a more serious offence, on evidence of each other's testimony-a bad result. But the dilemma is : if you alone stay silent, you will be punished for both offences while your accomplice walks free.

CONT

The "prisoner’s dilemma" has been a favourite story of economists for many years, for it illustrates a much more widespread problem: how individual ambition can lead to collective misery. Traffic jams are prisoner’s dilemmas: the more people take individual steps to alleviate congestion (by using public transport) the more they benefit others who do not share their public-spiritedness. Price wars in the airline industry are another example.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie industrielle et économique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología económica e industrial
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Record 39 1999-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special Rail Transport
  • Freezing and Refrigerating
  • Food Industries
CONT

Trucking has always been the mode of choice for shipping refrigerated product. But with recent developments in technology, the railways are becoming more confident they can measure up as a viable service alternative... A few weeks ago, US-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway(BNSF), ran its first all-refrigerated train from Illinois to California. It carried frozen product at a constant temperature for the entire 69-hour trip. There were no re-fuelling stops and so far, no cases of food spoilage... When you put a trailer on a train, there's nobody really looking after it, so if loads go bad or(the units) run out of fuel they don’t notice until it's too late. The difference with the BNSF service is the whole train is refrigerated and therefore gets constant attention.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transports ferroviaires spéciaux
  • Congélation, surgélation et réfrigération
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
CONT

L'offre «FrigoRail» pour les transports en wagons frigorifiques et isothermes ICF ainsi qu'en trains frigorifiques russes se caractérise par : des prix ferroviaires de bout en bout compétitifs, un interlocuteur unique, des durées d'acheminement remarquables, un transbordement sans faille à Brest [...]

Spanish

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Record 40 1999-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
DEF

While delivering, the moment the curler opens his or her hand and lets the rock go, the fingers no longer having a grip on the handle.

OBS

The point of release is part of a delivery, the exact moment where the hand of a curler stops having a hold on the handle of a rock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
DEF

En lançant une pierre, le moment où le curleur, la curleuse, ouvre la main pour laisser la pierre glisser sur le jeu, ses doigts cessant d'avoir prise sur la poignée.

OBS

Le moment du lâcher est partie du lancer, celui où cesse le contact entre la poignée de la pierre et la main du curleur, de la curleuse.

Spanish

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Record 41 1998-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
CONT

There will be no need to go back on the principle of independent taxation even though the tax credit element in an individual' s assessment is likely to be based on the household position.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité
CONT

Il ne sera pas nécessaire de revenir sur le principe d'imposition individuelle, même si dans le cadre de cette évaluation fiscale, l'élément de crédit d'impôt est appelé à se fonder sur la situation du ménage.

Spanish

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Record 42 1998-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
DEF

Eurodollar issue where interest rates have been set too low to attract investors. Called Star Trek because they were priced where no man dared to go(a reference to the Star Trek TV show).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inversiones
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Record 43 1997-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
CONT

The remainder were released and were given "No Go" to the area of 100 East Hastings. The conditions for release were on their own recognizance, a small cash bail or with one surety. In each instance, a "No Go" order was issued for the area encompassed by Main on the east, Pender on the south, Cambie on the west, and Cordova on the north.

OBS

an order given to an accused person upon release from custody to stay away from a certain area known for drug-trafficking or other illegal activities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal

Spanish

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Record 44 1994-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

In the second half of the nineteenth century... mathematicians began to find all kinds of monster curves that had no unique tangent at any point [...] [Giuseppe Peano] showed how a single point, moving continuously over a square, could(in a finite time) pass at least once through every point on the square and its boundary!(Actually any such curve must go through an infinity of points at least three times.) At the limit, the curve becomes a solid square.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
CONT

Ces courbes scandaleuses sans pente à la dimension ambiguë étaient extrêmement troublantes [....] Le grand Poincaré [les qualifia de] "galerie des monstres" [....] Néanmoins, soixante-dix ans après Peano, Mandelbrot démontra avec conviction qu'il était faux de penser que les courbes monstrueuses n'avaient que peu de rapport avec la géométrie de l'univers [....] Il prouva qu'en elles résidait le secret de la mesure de l'irrégularité du monde réel. Le secret des fractales.

Spanish

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Record 45 1993-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
OBS

Title of a quadrant (section) of a table or grid found in Albert Ellis’ "Rational-Emotive Theory".

CONT

Taking ACTION where we have CONTROL or INFLUENCE seems like a logical way of living. We’ll call that MASTERY. Similarly, if we take NO ACTION in an area where we have NO CONTROL, this again seems to be rational. We’ll call this "Letting Go", since we are making a conscious decision that something is beyond our control and we "let go of it".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 46 1992-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
  • Sociology of Human Relations
DEF

reduced to one class; showing uniformity.

CONT

[My daughter] has adopted the all-purpose uni-class way of speech that all the kiddos seem to go in for now.(The Spectator, 8 Jun. 1985 in Vocable no 22, p. 14.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts
  • Sociologie des relations humaines

Spanish

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Record 47 1990-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
CONT

The film apparatus, including the screen, needs to be appropriate to the size of the room and the audience, and a perfect black-out assured.

CONT

If the room is too light and no darkening is possible, you may wish to go to a flipchart or use the overhead projector, since the room need not be darkened for either of these presentation modes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
CONT

Aides audiovisuelles. (...) Le film fixe des images et des messages qui ne peuvent pas être modifiés. (...) Il faut (...) prévoir écran, équipement électrique de la salle, occultation et accessoires de rechange.

CONT

Le rétroprojecteur est facile à manier et ne nécessite pas d'occultation.

Spanish

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Record 48 1989-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Transport
CONT

[In the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations] "home-trade voyage, Class II", means a home-trade voyage in the course of which(a) on the Atlantic Coast, a ship does not go south of the port of New York, or on the Pacific Coast, a ship does not go south of Portland, Oregon,(b) the ship is at no time more than 120 miles off shore, and(c) the distance between suitable ports of refuge on the voyage does not exceed 200 nautical miles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par eau

Spanish

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Record 49 1989-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The trial judge determines as a matter of law whether an occasion is privileged. If so found, and there is no evidence of malice, the action must be dismissed. If there is no privilege, or if there is evidence of malice, or if the privilege has been exceeded, the case must then go to the jury. The distinction has been said to be between what is a "privileged occasion" and what is a "privileged communication"-the judge decides the former, the jury the latter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Le juge du procès décide, puisqu'il s'agit d'une question de droit, si l'immunité joue dans une situation donnée. Dans l'affirmative, l'action doit être rejetée s'il n'y a pas de preuve d'une intention de nuire. Dans la négative, ou si on apporte cette preuve, ou si l'on a outrepassé l'immunité, le jury doit être saisi de l'affaire. Il a été déclaré qu'on doit faire la distinction entre "une situation privilégiée" et "une communication privilégiée" : la première relève de la décision du juge et la deuxième du jury.

Spanish

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Record 50 1987-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
OBS

PSS includes help screens that are contact-sensitive, that is they apply to the panel you are working or, with no need to go back to the main menu.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 51 1986-10-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
DEF

to drop, dismiss, let go, or get rid of as no longer useful, valuable, or pleasurable....

CONT

Replace filter element as follows: ... (A) Remove filter bowl and discard element.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
DEF

Se débarrasser d'une chose gênante, inutile [...]

OBS

jeter : terme accepté par le Comité d'étude de la terminologie des cartes de travail du DC-9.

Spanish

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Record 52 1986-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
DEF

The combination of height and speed in the takeoff profile that allows an OEI [One Engine Inoperative] go or return option. If an engine fails prior to the CDP, it is possible to return to, and land safely on, the takeoff area. If an engine fails after the CDP it is possible to accelerate to... [the Takeoff Safety Speed] by no less than 35 feet over the takeoff area and continue an OEI climb.

OBS

from Business and commercial Aviation magazine, February 1980, p.63.

OBS

Helicopters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne

Spanish

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Record 53 1986-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organization Planning
CONT

Implementation is bound to go awry if strategy formulation goes no further than defining general thrusts and end-point goals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification d'organisation

Spanish

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