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MOVING BLOCK [13 records]

Record 1 2019-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transportation Equipment (General)
  • Railroad Safety
  • Air Safety
  • Trucking (Road Transport)
DEF

... a wedge of sturdy, durable material that is used to prevent the accidental movement of a vehicle.

OBS

[Wheel chocks] are placed snugly against the wheels of the vehicle, thin-edge forward, in order to block the vehicle from moving in the direction of the chock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipements de transport
  • Sécurité (Transport par rail)
  • Sécurité (Transport aérien)
  • Camionnage
OBS

cale de roue : terme uniformisé par le CUTA - Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Variety Shows and Circuses
DEF

Gymnastics performed on a moving horse going on a circle line, in full harmony.

CONT

The term "horse vaulting" is a bit misleading. It brings to mind the aerial leaps performed in gymnastic competitions on a padded stationary block. But the actual sport of horse vaulting is one of the three classic disciplines of horseback riding, the other two being dressage and jumping.... While vaulting does include jumping onto and off of a moving horse, it also involves much more, as I learned on a visit to watch the Great Falls Vaulting Team practice. Led by coach Jennifer Williams, the team's members ride bareback, kneel and stand on a moving horse, and perform the sort of riding tricks you might see in a circus.

CONT

Vaulting is the art of gymnastics on horse back and is an extremely popular sport with young riders in Europe and is now growing in stature here in Australia.

CONT

For those who liked horses, the daily ride, although strenuous, was lot of fun where, in addition to cavalry drill, there was jumping, vaulting and tentpegging.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Spectacles de variétés et Cirque
DEF

Gymnastique sur le dos d'un cheval au galop, en parfaite harmonie avec lui.

CONT

La voltige à cheval est un sport d'une puissance élégante et virile.

PHR

Saut en voltige.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geophysics
  • Vulcanology and Seismology
CONT

Bruns(1983) considered that [the Yakutat Block] is currently moving with the Pacific Plate so that the Fairweather Fault represents the Pacific-America Plate boundary. However, Perez and Jacob(1980) calculated seismic slip vectors which suggest 5 to 20 mm/a 030° convergence between the Pacific Plate and the Yakutat Block.

OBS

seismic slip vector: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géophysique
  • Volcanologie et sismologie
OBS

vecteur de glissement sismique : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 4 2009-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiological Physics (Theory and Application)
  • Properties of Fuels
DEF

The scanning of a fuel rod in a nuclear reactor for gamma activity by moving the rod past a slit in a lead block; photons emerging from the slit are detected by a scintillation spectrometer and recorded as a function of rod position.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique radiologique et applications
  • Propriétés des combustibles
CONT

Le banc de scrutation gamma [...] Tous les crayons combustibles irradiés dans un dispositif expérimental à OSIRIS subissent une neutronographie avant et après irradiation ce qui permet de voir les modifications de l'état du combustible et l'effet de l'irradiation.

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
DEF

To place a block or a wedge under a wheel to keep it from moving.

CONT

The chief pilot was standing by with chocks to chock the wheels upon landing as was previously arranged due to the inoperative brakes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
DEF

Immobiliser avec une ou plusieurs cales.

OBS

caler les roues : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

PHR

Caler les roues des avions.

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Volleyball
DEF

A spike stopped by the opponents by a block.

OBS

... the opposing team's defence tries to anticipate the offensive movements by moving into position to block the spike.

OBS

A block is a defensive play made close to the net by one or more players.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volleyball
DEF

Smash bloqué par l'adversaire au moyen d'un contre.

OBS

Pluriel : des smashs, des smashes.

OBS

smashs (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

OBS

Le smash contré est un smash bloqué au moyen d'un «contre» (ou d'un «bloc»), laquelle est une tactique défensive exécutée à un ou plusieurs joueurs et qui consiste à former un écran tout près du filet pour empêcher le smash de toucher le sol.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vóleibol
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Record 7 2004-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Launchers (Astronautics)
CONT

The pulsed plasma thruster(PPT) with solid propellant is used for low power propulsion systems; typically with an average power less than thirty watts. Capacitor stored electrical energy is used to create a pulsed arc discharge across the face of a block of propellant, teflon in most implementations to date. The combination of thermal flux, particle bombardment and surface reactions ablates and ionises a small amount of the solid material... The peak discharge current is high, in the region of tens of kA. The self-induced magnetic field acts on the ions moving in the electric field creating the discharge to create a Lorentz body force that accelerates the plasma. Teflon PPTs have enjoyed limited use in east-west station keeping and sun pointing applications. PPTs do not produce sufficient thrust to be considered as candidates to provide primary propulsion of future out of Earth orbit missions and were not considered for SMART-1.

Key term(s)
  • pulsed-plasma thruster

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lanceurs (Astronautique)

Spanish

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Record 8 2004-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bearings and Bearing Systems (Mechanical Components)
  • Lubrication Technology
OBS

A bearing is a relatively inexpensive replaceable wear surface, which reduces friction between rotating shafts and fixed housings. The intent is for bearings to protect more expensive parts, of an engine such as the crankshaft and camshaft as well as the engine block and connecting rods. In addition, bearings must also support the moving parts. This requires that bearings be capable of withstanding very high loads which are constantly changing in magnitude and direction. These are commonly referred to as cyclic loads which may eventually result in bearing lining fatigue or flaking if the bearing material does not have adequate fatigue strength.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paliers, coussinets et roulements (Composants mécaniques)
  • Tribologie
OBS

coussinet : Douille cylindrique, généralement en bronze, parfois garnie de métal antifriction, qui permet, après un frottement doux, la rotation de l'axe qu'elle supporte. (Les coussinets sont souvent composés de deux ou plusieurs pièces, celles-ci pouvant éventuellement être rapprochées les unes des autres par le serrage d'écrous, afin de compenser l'usure résultant du frottement.)

OBS

palier : Organe servant à supporter et à guider un arbre tournant. [...] Le palier lisse le plus simple est constitué par un corps en fonte portant une semelle de fixation parallèle à l'axe de l'arbre; [...] Les surfaces servant d'appui à l'arbre sont constituées par deux coussinets en fonte douce ou en bronze, généralement recouverts d'alliage antifriction.

OBS

Le moteur à induit plat. [...] l'induit n'est à palier que d'un côté, ainsi le collecteur ne s'encrasse pas. le coussinet du palier est composé de métal aggloméré et de ce fait ne nécessite pas de lubrification.

Spanish

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Record 9 2003-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Armour
DEF

A block which is housed in the breech ring and holds the striker mechanism assembly. It also prevents the casing from moving during firing.

Key term(s)
  • breech block

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arme blindée
DEF

Dans une mitrailleuse ou un canon, ensemble comprenant la culasse ainsi que ses mécanismes d'actionnement et de mise de feu ou percuteur. Il empêche également la douille de bouger pendant la mise à feu.

OBS

bloc-culasse : terme et définition uniformisés par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

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Record 10 2003-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Turbines
CONT

Turbines have a certain amount of float. The adjusting block limits the amount of axial movement of the turbine to avoid contact between the fixed and moving blades(coutra DNH/mer)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Turbines

Spanish

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Record 11 1999-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
OBS

slump : The downward slipping of a mass of rock or unconsolidated debris, moving as a unit or several subsidiary units, characteristically with backward rotation on a horizontal axis parallel to the slope... The major slip surface is typically spoon-shaped and concave toward the slip block in both vertical and horizontal section.

Key term(s)
  • scoop shaped slump

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Mouvement de masse rapide, peu profond, de matériel riche en fines, suffisamment gorgé d'eau pour être peu visqueux. La partie supérieure forme une petite niche de foirage, ressemblant à un coup de cuillère dans une crème épaisse. En dessous, il n'y a pas de langue, seulement un chenal légèrement en creux, puis, à l'extrémité, un étalement des matériaux.

OBS

Dans de nombreux cas de glissements rotationnels, la forme de la cicatrice et celle de la surface de glissement sont en coups de cuillère [...]

Spanish

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Record 12 1988-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

To describe operators and actions, we first have to give them names. In what follows, we use the ternary function symbol M to designate the move operator, we use the binary function symbol U to designate the unstack operator, we use the binary function symbol S to designate the stack operator, and we use the constant Noop to designate the null action. With this vocabulary, we can name individual actions. For example, the term M(C, A, B) designates the action of moving block c from a to b. We call terms of this form action designators.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voir "désignatif" et "indicatif".

Spanish

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Record 13 1983-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Police
OBS

In theory, a moving block places a police car, or two, or three, in front of a fleeing driver, and... one or more police cars in the rear, "boxing" in the fugitive vehicle and eventually forcing the fleeing driver to stop.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Police
OBS

Barrage mobile. Si un agent, de son point d'observation stratégique, repère le fugitif, il le prendra en filature et gardera le véhicule suspect à vue... On ajoute alors un autre détachement derrière l'observateur... Les voitures qui précèdent le fugitif ralentissent pour essayer de coincer le véhicule et le forcer à s'arrêter.

Spanish

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