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MNEMONICS [5 records]

Record 1 2012-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Programming Languages
DEF

A programming language, the simple statements of which have the same or similar structure as the machine instructions of a specific computer or of a class of computers.

DEF

A language having mnemonics that correspond directly to machine language instructions.

OBS

computer-oriented language; machine-oriented language: terms standardized by ISO/IEC.

OBS

computer-oriented language: term officially approved by the Government EDP (Electronic Data Processing) Standards Committee (GESC).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Langages de programmation
DEF

Langage de programmation dont les instructions simples ont une structure identique ou semblable à celle des instructions-machine d'un ordinateur particulier ou d'une classe d'ordinateurs. [Définition normalisée par l'ISO/CEI.]

DEF

Langage composé des codes mnémoniques qui correspondent directement aux instructions du langage-machine. [Définition normalisée par le CNGI.]

OBS

langage orienté machine : terme normalisé par l'ISO/CEI.

OBS

langage orienté machine; langage lié à l'ordinateur : termes uniformisés par le Comité des normes gouvernementales en informatique (CNGI).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Lenguaje de programación
DEF

Lenguaje de programación en el que las instrucciones del programa fuente, corresponden estrechamente con las instrucciones de máquina reconocidas y ejecutadas por la computadora (ordenador).

OBS

Es opuesto a lenguaje orientado hacia los problemas y a lenguaje orientado a los procedimientos.

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Record 2 2004-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
DEF

A skill which can be applied across a variety of subject domains, and takes longer to acquire than domain-dependent (subject-area) skills.

CONT

The major kinds of generic skills include thinking skills(such as problem solving techniques), learning strategies(such as creating mnemonics to help you remember things), and metacognitive skills(such as monitoring and revising your problem solving techniques or mnemonic-creating techniques).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
CONT

Une compétence est générique lorsqu'elle est requise par la plupart des gestionnaires et des superviseurs. Par exemple, la résolution créative de problèmes, la communication interpersonnelle, le travail en équipe, la conduite de réunions, etc.

CONT

La compétence transversale regroupe tout ce qui n'est pas de la compétence technique (liée au métier).

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Programming Languages
DEF

A programming language based on the use of mnemonics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Langages de programmation
DEF

Langage de programmation utilisant des abréviations faciles à retenir.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Lenguaje de programación
DEF

Lenguaje de programación basado en símbolos fáciles de recordar que pueden ensamblarse por la computadora (ordenador) en lenguaje de máquina.

Key term(s)
  • lenguaje mnemotécnico
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Record 4 1994-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
CONT

By giving a cognitive enhancer, with minimal side effects, to people without a mental deficit, they may end up with cognitive credit, i. e. smarter. Some elements within the scientific establishment continue to deny the potential of cognitive enhancers. They believe that the optimal brain cannot be improved upon by throwing in, a "chemical spanner". But optimal memory can be improved, for example, by employing "mnemonics", which is as "artificial" as a chemical lift from a pill. Would they also resist cognitive enhancement by other artificial methods such as food-a "chemical spanner" if ever there was one-and education? The United States Congress has declared the 1990s the "Decade of the Brain". Smart drugs will, if regulated, treat a recently officially recognized disease, the Age-Associated Memory Impairment(AAMI)-a noticeable mental decline due to the normal ageing process. A futures analyst, Decision Resources, predicts that smart drugs could benefit 600 million people this decade, including 60 million people with AAMI, 20 million students who want to improve scholastic performance, and 270 million people hoping to improve their efficiency at work(Suppl. The World in 1994).

OBS

See "cognitive enhancer".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
OBS

amélioration: fait de devenir meilleur, plus satisfaisant. Voir améliorant.

Spanish

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Record 5 1985-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
OBS

Tekelec announces the production of a new software for its TE 92 traffic analyser-simulator : SITREX 25, a simulation language with the same structure as BASIC but using the mnemonics of the X. 25 protocol, can be readily assimilated by any teleprocessing engineer.

OBS

traffic analysis: The obtaining of information from a study of communications traffic. Includes statistical study of message headings, receipts, acknowledgements, routing, and so on, plus a tabulation of volumes and types of messages with respect to time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
OBS

Tekelec annonce la disponibilité d'un nouveau logiciel pour son analyseur-simulateur de trafic TE 92, le SITREX 25 qui est un langage de simulation ayant la structure du BASIC, mais utilisant la mnémonique du protocole X.25. Il est donc immédiatement assimilable par tout technicien de la téléinformatique.

Spanish

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