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HAVE MEANING ASSIGNED [3 records]

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Record 1 2016-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

A password may be chosen by the user, or it may be assigned. User-selected passwords are far from secure, since most people tend to pick up words or numbers that have some personal meaning... and consequently are easy to guess.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Un mot de passe peut être choisi par l'utilisateur ou [...] attribué. Les mots de passe choisis par l'utilisateur sont loin d'être sûrs, puisque la plupart des gens ont tendance à choisir des mots ou nombres qui ont une certaine signification personnelle [...] et qu'en conséquence ils sont faciles à deviner.

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

... all other words and expressions have the same meanings as in Part I.

CONT

have the meaning assigned by the regulation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

[...] les autres mots et expressions s'entendent au sens de la partie I.

CONT

s'entendre au sens des règlements.

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Sewers and Drainage
CONT

To eliminate the problems associated with the collection, removal, storage and handling of the screenings, devices are installed for the continuous intercepting, shredding and grinding into small pieces of the large floating material in the waste flow. These cutting and shredding devices are called comminutors.

OBS

The term "comminutor" is strictly speaking used to designate only a specific type of shredding device. In a larger sense it is used to designate all types of shredders. A few authors have assigned a third, even larger, sense to the term. They use "comminutor" to mean any type of grinding as well as shredding device. It is this third meaning which is the object of this record. In French, "dilacérateur" refers to cutting and shredding devices only.

OBS

"communitor": although used in some sources (e.g. Internet), the right spelling is "comminutor" and not "communitor".

Key term(s)
  • comminuter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
  • Traitement des eaux usées
  • Égouts et drainage
CONT

Dilacération. Cette opération de traitement [...] a pour but de désintégrer les matières solides charriées par l'eau. Au lieu d'être extraites de l'effluent brut ces matières sont déchiquetées au passage et poursuivent le circuit de l'eau vers les stades de traitement suivants. [...] On distingue les dilacérateurs au fil de l'eau et les dilacérateurs associés (sous-entendu avec une grille mécanique).

OBS

Il n'existe pas en français d'équivalent parfait pour la notion anglaise. Les Français utilisent, soit des dilacérateurs (cutting and shredding), soit des broyeurs (grinding), mais aucun appareil ne fait les trois opérations.

Spanish

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