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HAVE SOME CALL [11 records]

Record 1 2020-07-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

In the case of traditional securitisations, [a clean-up call] is generally accomplished by repurchasing the remaining securitisation exposures once the pool balance or outstanding securities have fallen below some specified level.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

Dans les titrisations classiques, [une option de terminaison anticipée] est généralement réalisée en rachetant les expositions de titrisation encore en vie lorsque l'encours du portefeuille de créances sous-jacent ou des titres est tombé en-deçà d'un seuil prédéterminé.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
DEF

[A zone of strong] winds, caused by rapidly descending cool, dry air in contact with warm, moist air.

CONT

... what makes some extratropical cyclones produce catastrophically damaging winds.... [Keith Browning and Pete Clark] have identified a mesoscale flow which they call the Sting Jet. It originates in the cloud head of a rapidly deepening cyclone and gathers speed as it descends towards the tip of the cloud head when it begins to hook around the cyclone centre... The Sting Jet was first identified observationally from a reanalysis of the Great Storm of October 1987 where the damaging winds were shown to be emanating from the evaporating tip of the hooked cloud head. It has since been reproduced in high-resolution runs with the mesoscale version of the Unified Model. The Sting Jet is distinct from the usual strong-wind region associated with the warm conveyor belt and main cold front. There are indications that conditional symmetric instability and evaporation both play a role in its formation but the importance of these processes remains to be quantified.

CONT

Sting jets occur in cyclones when there is a dramatic fall in the barometric pressure. ... The sting jet is born at an altitude of three miles, within layers of ascending moist air. As the jet descends, it passes through ice crystals that cool it, increase its density and cause it to accelerate to more than 100 mph at ground level.

OBS

... Keith Browning, Peter Clark, and Tim Hewson coined the word, based upon the scorpion-tail-like shape of the weather formation when viewed from above.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
DEF

Zone de vent très fort et turbulent près de la surface, marquée par un renforcement du gradient de pression, qui se forme juste à l'arrière et au sud d'un minimum dépressionnaire des latitudes tempérées dans un système actif en phase de développement rapide. [Définition proposée par un météorologue de Météo-France.]

OBS

Cette zone de vent très fort résulterait d'une interaction complexe entre des processus dynamiques et microphysiques à l'extrémité nord-ouest du système nuageux alors qu'il boucle vers le sud-est pour revenir vers le centre de la dépression («retour d'est»). [Commentaire d'un météorologue de Météo-France.]

OBS

Le «retour d'Est» a des conséquences précises suite à l'interaction du jet avec la topographie de certaines régions d'Europe, ainsi les conséquences seront différentes d'une région à l'autre (même à l'intérieur d'un continent); toutefois, la configuration générale des dépressions et des circulations atmosphériques qui leur sont associées étant similaires dans toutes les latitudes moyennes de l'hémisphère Nord, la notion de retour d'Est devrait aussi s'appliquer au Canada. [Philippe-Alain Bergeron, météorologue, Environnement Canada.]

OBS

occlusion : zone nuageuse et pluvieuse caractérisée par le rejet en altitude de l'air chaud d'une perturbation. Cette limite de masses d'air résulte de la jonction du front chaud et du front froid d'une même perturbation (front chaud rattrapé par le front froid), ce qui donne naissance à une zone nuageuse et à des précipitations, assez intenses près du centre de la dépression associée, et de moins en moins marquées dans la partie la plus éloignée.

OBS

jet d'occlusion : type de courant-jet de basses couches.

OBS

courants-jets de basses couches; jets de basses couches : [...] zones de vent très fort qui naissent parfois dans les couches de l'atmosphère proches du sol [...]

OBS

courant-jet d'occlusion; jet d'occlusion : termes descriptifs, proposés par des météorologues d'Environnement Canada et de Météo-France.

OBS

courant-jet de basses couches : terme plus général, proposé par des météorologues d'Environnement Canada et de Météo-France.

Key term(s)
  • courant jet d'occlusion

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
OBS

The VOF consists of merchant ships of Indian registry, some foreign merchant vessels and a few ships of the Indian Navy, totalling 203. These ships have meteorological instruments supplied by the Indian Meteorological Department. The observations are transmitted by the ships to the nearest coastal radio stations for onward transmission to the storm warning centres. Records of observations are passed on to the Department when the ships call at port.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
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Record 4 2008-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Social Services and Social Work
OBS

[The assisted referrals] are identical to the self referrals except that the individuals accessing the program will have been assisted by someone else(e. g. supervisor, colleague, family member). Such assistance may involve simply informing the individual that the program is available or suggesting that they call the program. In some cases, whoever is concerned about a fellow employee may call the EAP(Emloyee Assistance Program) for a consultation about how to assist the employee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Services sociaux et travail social

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advertising Techniques
  • Merchandising Techniques
CONT

Direct marketing refers to any marketing activity aimed at a consumer which can be accurately measured. Direct marketing campaigns usually have a strong call to action and ask prospective customers to take some very clear measurable action immediately. The opposite of direct marketing is brand marketing, which seeks only to establish or reinforce a brand identity for the purpose of influencing future sales.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques publicitaires
  • Techniques marchandes
DEF

Techniques de promotion et de vente qui vise à établir une communication directe et interactive avec le client potentiel : la vente par correspondance, par téléphone, par catalogue, par publipostage, par Internet, par télévision interactive, etc.

OBS

Vente directe et VD : termes adoptés par la Commission générale de terminologie et de néologie du gouvernement de la France.

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
  • Reproduction (Medicine)
CONT

There are two types of emergency contraceptive pills. One type uses hormones that are the same type and dose as hormones used in some kinds of ordinary birth control pills. These hormones are called estrogen and progestin.... Some people call emergency contraceptive pills "morning after pills. "But you do not have to wait until the morning after. You can start the pills right away or up to three days after you have had unprotected sex... Therapy is more effective the earlier it is initiated within the 72 hour window.

Key term(s)
  • morning after pill

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
  • Reproduction (Médecine)
OBS

Les pharmaciens pourraient bientôt avoir le droit de prescrire la «pilule du lendemain» grâce à une modification au Règlement sur les actes visés à l'article 31 de la Loi médicale qui peuvent être posés par des classes de personnes autres que des médecins. [...] D'entrée de jeu, l'OIIQ [Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec] s'est dit favorable à ce projet, car il accroît l'accessibilité de la contraception orale d'urgence (COU).

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephony and Microwave Technology
  • Telephones
  • Telephone Services
DEF

Service available at some PABX's and Centrex offices where a station receiving an incoming call can transfer it to any other station in the same group without the assistance of an operator.(SMICO, 71 : 427) Both PBX and CENTREX lines must have "transfer capability", since it is not unusual for incoming calls to a business to reach a person other than the one wanted.(GOSWI, 77 : 15)

OBS

call transfer: officialized by Bell Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Téléphonie et techniques hyperfréquences
  • Téléphones
  • Services téléphoniques
DEF

Complément de service permettant à un usager de transférer à un tiers une communication établie avec un autre usager, qu'il ait été le demandeur ou le demandé.

CONT

Dans une installation d'abonné avec postes supplémentaires, renvoi d'un appel émanant du réseau public [...] vers un autre poste avec ou sans consultation de ce dernier. (TELKA, 78: 115) Les possibilités de transfert des communications réseau d'un poste supplémentaire sur un autre, qu'offrent les installations semi-automatiques [...], sont particulièrement avantageuses dans les grandes entreprises, pour faciliter l'aiguillage correct des communications d'arrivée du réseau. (TECHNI, E-2880: 6)

OBS

transfert d'appels : uniformisé par Bell Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Telefonía y tecnología de microondas
  • Teléfonos
  • Servicios telefónicos
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Record 8 2002-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Call made by the chair umpire or by an opposing player to one who has just served to indicate that either the ball has made contact with the net or that the point should be replayed because of some interference; server will once again have two serves at his disposal.

OBS

first service: badminton term also.

Key term(s)
  • two balls

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Annonce faite par l'arbitre quand il ordonne de rejouer le service. On dit aussi (tendance moderne) «premier service».

OBS

premier service : terme employé aussi au badminton.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
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Record 9 2000-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
CONT

Observe that, to make such computations, you do not need to know with precision the details of the wiggles of the Julia set. You just need to have some combinatorial information about the way its various parts are related to each other. J. H. Hubbard succeeded in concentrating this information in a diagram, that I [Adrien Douady] call the Hubbard tree, and when I want to talk about a specific point in M, I find it much more convenient to draw its Hubbard tree than to give its coordinates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques

Spanish

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Record 10 2000-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
OBS

API: application program interface.

OBS

Windows programs are based around a standard set of features known as the application program interface or API. All programs call on the API for most of their functions. But some of the API functions are not accessed directly from Visual Basic. Using the API is not difficult, but the API is picky. Everything must be just so, and much of what you have to add to your programs is quite detailed. The API viewer enables you to cut and paste the required declarations. It helps you avoid errors and is a great time saver.

Key term(s)
  • application program interface viewer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
OBS

Source(s) : PC EXPERT, nov. 1999, p. 242.

OBS

API : interface de programme d'application.

Key term(s)
  • visionneuse d'interface de programme d'application

Spanish

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Record 11 1985-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
OBS

Shows horizontal spacing, line length, left margin, paragraph indentation, vertical spacing between lines and paragraphs top margin, lines per page, assumed page length, and justification, etc.

CONT

Embeds format information with text. The format statement may include such parameters as margin and tab settings, decimal tab settings, centering instructions, paragraph indentations, line spacing, pitch size, etc. Some systems have an automatic or default format which is used whenever the operator fails to specify a format. Some systems allow only one format per document or per page. Other systems allow the operator to change formats and automatically call up various formats as desired. Some systems employ a Format Menu or list instead of a format statement for the document. This is generally stored separately and displayed separately from the document itself.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
CONT

Un énoncé format fournit pour chaque information à transmettre la description de son champ et l'indication de la conversion à effectuer.

Spanish

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