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Record 1 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coils and Windings (Electrical Components)
DEF

... a wiring feature found on some electrical transformers, inductors and coil pickups, all of which are sets of wire coils.

CONT

The coil tap(s) are points in a wire coil where a conductive patch has been exposed(usually on a loop of wire that extends out of the main coil body).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bobines et bobinage (Composants électrotechniques)

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-10-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
  • Viticulture
CONT

Spring (March to June). ... Replacement of the dead vine plants. Tying down of the branches before budburst.

CONT

Northern Spy, Yellow Transparent, Delicious, and other upright growing varieties are sometimes difficult to train because almost every main limb tends to grow upright. A special practice sometimes used is to train these branches into outward-growing laterals by bending or tying them down. This is done by driving a staple into the trunk near the ground and tying a piece of heavy cord or binder twine(not wire) from the staple to the end of the limb, using a loose loop on the branch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arboriculture fruitière
  • Viticulture
CONT

Les travaux de la vigne peuvent être regroupés en 7 étapes qui s’étalent et se succèdent tout au long de l’année. [...] Le liage de la vigne est une étape à réaliser de février à avril. Cela consiste à attacher les sarments taillés de part et d’autre d’un fil support, de courber les bois porteurs des bourgeons qui produisent le raisin et de les y attacher. Le liage demande précision et rapidité [...] Son but est de préserver les brins des coups de vent mais aussi de donner un sens et une stabilité à chaque pied de vigne. Après la taille et le liage, les viticulteurs passeront à l'ébourgeonnage et le relevage de la vigne.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Papermaking Machines
OBS

An English invention, the Inverform was developed in the late 1950's to overcome the quality and speed limitations of the cylinder former in manufacturing multiply paperboards. Basically, this system consists of a fourdrinier wire upon which are located a number of secondary headboxes with top-wire formers.... The top liner is formed onto the fourdrinier wire in the usual manner, and subsequent plies are laid down between the main wire and the top wire formers. Dewatering takes place mainly upwards, thus avoiding the problems of water removal through an increasingly thick base web.

OBS

Inverform: A trademark of St. Anne’s Board Mill Co.

Key term(s)
  • Inverform

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Machines à papier
OBS

Inventé en Angleterre, l'Inverform a été mis au point pour apporter une solution aux problèmes de la fabrication des cartons multicouches liés aux limitations de qualité et de vitesse des machines à formes rondes. Ce matériel consiste en une toile de machine à table plate sur laquelle sont installées des caisses d'arrivée secondaires et des formeurs superposés, l'égouttage se produisant vers le haut et vers le bas à chaque équipement. Le recto est déposé de manière traditionnelle sur la toile de la table plate. Au fur et à mesure que la toile principale avance, les couches successives sont prises en sandwich entre la toile principale et les formeurs superposés. Un système d'écope particulier (appelé «lèvre automatique») élimine l'eau qui traverse la toile supérieure. Les caisses aspirantes placées sous la toile principale et au-dessus de la toile supérieure achèvent l'égouttage du matelas.

OBS

On trouvera le terme «Inverform» sous l'article 8.6.4.3. dans le Cours de formation papetière de Jean Vilars (code : CTD-1).

OBS

InverformMC : Marque de commerce de la société St. Anne's Board Mill Co.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chains and Cables (Mechanical Components)
  • Supports and Reinforcement (Construction)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Wind Energy
DEF

A wire line attached to a mast or derrick to provide stability.

DEF

A supporting rope, cable, or wire which is anchored at one end and tied to a mast, shear legs, derrick, or other in order to stabilize it.

OBS

The lines that provide the main support for the structure are called load guys; the wire lines attached to ground anchors to give lateral support to the structure are termed wind guys.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et chaînes (Composants mécaniques)
  • Étayage et consolidation (Construction)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Câble tendu entre un élément à stabiliser (édifice haut et étroit, mât, passerelle, grue, etc.) et un point fixe auquel il est solidement ancré.

OBS

hauban : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cadenas y cables (Componentes mecánicos)
  • Soportes y refuerzos (Construcción)
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
  • Energía eólica
DEF

Cable, soga, cadena o similar, que sirve para atirantar una estructura o parte de ella.

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Record 5 2010-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Facilities
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

Providing transfer rates comparable to a T1 line at about 1.5 Mbps, HDSL receives information and sends information at the same high Internet speed through a modem or wireless connection, but it requires two different lines that are separate from your phone line. So if you are not uploading a lot you have no need for this.

CONT

HDSL(High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line), one of the earliest forms of DSL, is used for wideband digital transmission within a corporate site and between the telephone company and a customer. The main characteristic of HDSL is that it is symmetrical : an equal amount of bandwidth is available in both directions. HDSL can carry as much on a single wire of twisted-pair cable as can be carried on a T1 line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations de télécommunications
  • Internet et télématique
OBS

Première technologie DSL [ligne d'abonné numérique] à avoir vu le jour en 1990.

OBS

Technologie de transport sur trois paires de fils torsadés. Débit symétrique en émission et réception à 2.048 Mbits/s.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instalaciones de telecomunicaciones
  • Internet y telemática
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Record 6 2008-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Systems
CONT

When the landing gear was DOWN, the shock strut air fitting was not visible through the inspection hole in the top of the main gear well. The nose gear wire indicator was not protruding above the nose cap.

PHR

Strut air fitting.

PHR

Universal air fitting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits des aéronefs
CONT

Lorsque le train d'atterrissage était en position DOWN, le raccord pneumatique de la jambe à amortisseur n'était pas visible par l'orifice se trouvant au sommet du logement du train principal et le câble indicateur du train avant ne dépassait pas de la coiffe du nez.

OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 7 2005-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
DEF

A part of the feed mechanism of the card.

CONT

[The lickerin, which] consists of a hollow, metal roll with a spirally grooved surface containing a special saw-toothed wire... opens up the tufts of the picker lap as it is fed to the card and transfers the fibres to the main cylinder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
  • Filature (Textiles)
DEF

Partie du mécanisme d'alimentation de la carde.

CONT

[Le briseur en gros qui consiste] en un rouleau (tambour) creux en métal dont la surface est garnie de rayures en spirale et d'un fil métallique spécial en forme de dents de scie [...] sert à ouvrir les touffes de la nappe produite par le batteur qui alimente la carde et à transférer les fibres vers le cylindre principal.

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
CONT

The US Navy’s Fleet Satellite Communications System (FLTSATCOM) is a constellation of five operational satellites used by both the Navy and Air Force as well as the presidential command network. The system with a design life of five years, serves as a secure communications link between the three users. Each satellite has 23 communications channels, 10 of which are used by the Navy for communication between its land forces, ships and aircraft. The Air Force uses 12 of the channels as part of its satellite communications system for command and control of nuclear forces. One channel is reserved for US national command authorities.

CONT

FLTSATCOM systems feature a main transmitting antenna that is 11 feet in diameter and surrounded by wire mesh screen. The body itself is hexagonal and is 8 inches wide and 4 feet tall. Two improved satellites recently joined four FLTSATCOM originals in orbit to extend the operation of the system well into the 1990s. The new systems carry an experimental extra-high-frequency package as a testbed for terminals being developed for the Milstar communications system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
CONT

[...] un système de transmissions par satellite Fleetsatcom.

Spanish

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Record 9 2001-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Materials Storage
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
  • Grain Growing
CONT

There are two main types of primary cleaners : indent cylinder machines and screen machines. Most indent cylinder machines are equipped with a scalper-aspirator which combines a rotating cylindrical wire mesh with an air stream which passes through the falling grain stream. The former removes large foreign material such as wood, large straws, etc. while the air stream removes dust, leaves and other light objects. Thus the grain is cleaned partially before it reaches the indent cylinders.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stockage
  • Minoterie et céréales
  • Culture des céréales

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transport of Wood
  • Forestry Operations
  • Overhead Cableways
DEF

A wire rope used in cable logging to haul the main line with carriage, butt rigging, or chokers back to the point where the logs are to be attached.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport du bois
  • Exploitation forestière
  • Transporteurs aériens sur câbles
DEF

Petit câble servant à retourner le câble de traction.

Spanish

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Record 11 2001-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
CONT

The vertical-lift bridge has a span similar to that of a fixed bridge, and is lifted by steel ropes running over large sheaves at the tops of its towers to the counterweights, which fall as the lift span rises and rise as it falls. If the bridge is operated by machinery on each tower, it is known as a tower drive. If it is driven by machinery located on the lift span, it is known as a span drive.

CONT

The Roosevelt Island Bridge is a tower drive vertical lift movable bridge... The structural steel lift span of this bridge is suspended at each corner from twelve wire ropes which are draped over a main counterweight sheave located atop the corresponding corner of a tower. The other ends of the ropes are connected to counterweights. There is one span counterweight at each tower. Raising and lowering the bridge is accomplished by rotating the main sheaves using tower drive systems. As the span is raised the two counterweights descend. The lift span is raised and lowered by two identical tower drives, one located in a machinery room atop each tower.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts

Spanish

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Record 12 1998-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Mechanics)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A U-shaped steel rod with threaded ends and a bar with nuts, provided to clamp over two or more cylindrical pieces to bind them together, as the overlapped ends of two wire ropes.

CONT

A wire-line clamp is used to hold the end of a wire rope against the main rope and so form a loop or sling...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Mécanique)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Pièce en U boulonnée servant à assembler deux brins de câble.

Spanish

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Record 13 1998-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Welding and Soldering (Metals)
CONT

Surfacing is a term used to describe processes of depositing metal on surfaces of tools and machine parts in order to increase their dimensional sizes or to obtain some specific mechanical property.... The two main categories of surfacing are known as hardfacing and metallizing. Hardfacing is a fusion technique and includes processes which are designed to produce hard, tough overlays to resist severe abrasion, corrosion, and impact loads. Metallizing is a spray coating procedure where finely divided particles of metal are deposited on surfaces where metal has worn away or where it is necessary to build up certain contours. Hardfacing is actually a fusion weld process in which a special hardfacing rod, wire, or electrode is intermixed with the base metal.

Key term(s)
  • metallizing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soudage (Métal)
DEF

Opération consistant à recouvrir la surface d'une pièce métallique, d'une couche plus ou moins épaisse d'un autre métal ou alliage fondu (rechargement hétérogène), pour augmenter localement la résistance à l'usure, ou pour apporter du métal semblable (rechargement homogène) sur des parties usées ou corrodées.

CONT

Technologie du rechargement. (...) L'opération consiste essentiellement à rapporter, par fusion, sur les parties usées ou susceptibles de s'user, un métal de même nature ou, le plus souvent, de nature différente de celle du métal de base.

Spanish

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Record 14 1998-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Papermaking Machines
DEF

Rolls that are involved both in the removal of water after the web is formed on the paper machine and picking up the web so that it can be transferred to the wet press section.

CONT

The couch roll under the wire on a fourdrinier machine also serves as the main drive as well as a dewatering device.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines à papier
DEF

Organe, formé d'une enveloppe perforée à l'intérieur de laquelle se trouvent une ou plusieurs caisses aspirantes, qui sert à entraîner la toile et permet un dernier égouttage du matelas fibreux avant son passage dans les presses.

OBS

Pour «cylindre aspirant», voir l'article 8.3.7.2. dans CTD-1, vol. 1.

Spanish

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Record 15 1997-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
  • Wool Industry
CONT

Raising takes place when the long wires of the fancy reach into the short wires of the main cylinder, brush the wool fibers... and permit the doffer wire to transfer it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Filature (Textiles)
  • Industrie lainière
CONT

[dans une carde] la laine est repoussée sur les dents [du cylindre] 1 par les dents de 2, sans s'y accrocher: c'est le relevage.

Spanish

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Record 16 1991-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Burners and Steamfitting
DEF

Ignition of a main burner flame by an electric-ignition source such as a high-voltage spark or hot wire.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fumisterie et brûleurs

Spanish

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Record 17 1988-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
DEF

A mass of masonry in soft ground, or a fixing deep into rock, on the land side of a suspension bridge tower, to hold the ends of the suspension cables.

CONT

... the main support members of a suspension bridge are parallel cables composed of thousands of individual strands of wire.... The deck(roadway) is supported by hanger cables that are hung from the main cables. Most of the weight of the bridge is thus transferred to the cable anchors at either end of the bridge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
CONT

Dans un pont suspendu, le poids (...) est transformé en une poussée verticale exercée par les portiques (...) et en une tension des haubans (...) Les fondations des pylônes (...) sont soumises à des efforts de compression, alors que les ancrages des câbles (...) sont sollicités par des tensions.

CONT

Ponts suspendus (...) Dans ces ouvrages, les organes porteurs sont des câbles qui reportent les charges et surcharges du tablier, d'une part aux pylônes intermédiaires et, d'autre part, à des massifs d'ancrage dans lesquels ils sont ancrés (...)

Spanish

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Record 18 1986-10-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Systems
CONT

Dismantle Main Oil Filter :... Without losing positions of spacers and screen discs, transfer element assembly on to a length or safety wire.

Key term(s)
  • screen disk

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits des aéronefs
OBS

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

Spanish

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Record 19 1982-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Jewellery
DEF

[A tool] For taking finger-measurements (...)

DEF

(...) to determine the size of the ring desired.

OBS

(...) two main types(...) One is a stencil of stiff card or some other material with graduated holes marked with the sizes, the other is a series of metal rings in graduated sizes strung on a large hoop of wire.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Joaillerie et bijouterie
DEF

Jeux d'anneaux gradués de différentes dimensions permettant de mesurer la grosseur d'un doigt pour y adapter un corps de bague.

OBS

Il existe des jeux d'anneaux larges pour bagues de type chevalière et des jeux d'anneaux étroits pour bagues de type alliance.

Spanish

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Record 20 1979-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cranes (Hoisting and Lifting)
  • Cranes (Construction Sites)
OBS

Wire rope reeved from main hoist drum to control closing of clamshell bucket.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grues (Levage)
  • Grues (Chantiers)
OBS

Câble métallique du tambour du treuil principal servant à fermer la benne preneuse.

Spanish

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