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MICROSPHERIC [4 records]

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Record 1 2015-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
DEF

A cellular plastic in which hollow microspheric fillers are used as the low-density element.

OBS

syntactic cellular plastic : term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
DEF

Plastique alvéolaire dont la faible masse volumique est obtenue par l'incorporation de microsphères creuses.

OBS

plastique allégé composite; plastique à billes creusés : termes et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fabricación de plásticos
DEF

Plástico celular en el cual se usan microesferas huecas como elemento de baja densidad.

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Record 2 1977-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Foraminifers of the family Miogypsinidae have a] Test trigonal, suborbicular, or digitate, evenly or modified lenticular, composed of [an] equatorial layer either with well-developed lateral chambers or with appressed laminae on each side; megalospheric generation with bilocular embryonic chambers with rud or well-developed spire of periembryonic chambers, situated apically, subapically, or subcentrally; microspheric generation with spire of chambers situated apically; spiral canal and intraseptal canal [are] present; well-developed arcuate, rhombic, or elongate hexagonal equatorial chambers [are] interconnected by stolons... "M. Oligo.-L. Mio".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Foraminifères de la famille des Miogypsinidae ont un] Test de grande taille, en éventail, ovale ou subcirculaire, lenticulaire et plus ou moins dissymétrique. Le juvénarium est excentrique (sauf un genre), parfois périphérique : planispiralé ou légèrement trochospiralé, il se distingue dans la forme A par un embryon biloculin suivi d'un népionte uni-, bi- ou quadrisérié [...]; le stade néanique comporte des loges arquées, losangiques, en spatule ou hexagonales, reliées par deux stolons (distal, proximal) ou quatre (diagonaux) ou par des stolons diagonaux et concentriques. Des logettes latérales dans certains genres. Un système de canaux : canal spiral, canaux radiaux puis intraseptaux, ni corde ni plexus marginal. [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Foraminifers of the family Discocyclinidae have a] Test circular or stellate, thin or inflated, composed of equatorial layer with lateral chambers on each side; [the] megalospheric generation with [a] subspherical initial chamber partly or completely embraced by [a] larger second chamber; microspheric generation with initial coil of small chambers; equatorial chambers [are] rectangular to faintly hexagonal in plan; radial chamber walls, when present, [are] arranged in annuli; equatorial chambers [are] connected by annular and radial stolons with adjacent chambers in [the] same annulus and with adjacent chambers in [the] next inner and next outer annulus; intraseptal and intramural canal system present... "Paleoc.-Eoc. ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Foraminifères de la famille des Discocyclinidae ont un] Test mince ou discoïde, circulaire ou en étoile; [un] embryon constitué par une protoconque subsphérique entourée partiellement à totalement par la deutéroconque; juvenarium B planispiralé; une couche de loges équatoriales disposées en cercles concentriques, arquées ou bien annulaires divisées en logettes rectangulaires ou légèrement hexagonales; loges reliées par des stolons radiaux et annulaires; logettes latérales petites et nombreuses. Il existe un système de canaux intraseptaux fins et simples, radiaux et annulaires, peut-être aussi entre des logettes latérales [...]

Spanish

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Record 4 1977-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[The term microspheric means] having [a] small proloculus, commonly [an] agamont(schizont) generation, adult test large.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

(...) des formes microsphériques en particulier (...)

Spanish

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