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Record 1 2025-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Research Laboratories and Centres
  • Indigenous Sociology
  • Environmental Management
OBS

Mi’kmaq Environmental Learning Centre [(MELC) ] is a tribute to Mi’kmaq Elders who generously share their knowledge on... traditional values and perspectives. MELC' s objective is to keep these teachings alive [to pass them on] for the benefit of future generations.

Key term(s)
  • Mikmaq Environmental Learning Centre
  • Mikmaq Environmental Learning Center
  • Mi'kmaq Environmental Learning Center

French

Domaine(s)
  • Laboratoires et centres de recherche
  • Sociologie des Autochtones
  • Gestion environnementale
OBS

Centre d'apprentissage environnemental micmac; CAEM: bien que cette appellation et son acronyme soient utilisés, ils ne sont pas officiels.

Key term(s)
  • Mikmaq Environmental Learning Centre
  • Mikmaq Environmental Learning Center
  • Mi'kmaq Environmental Learning Center

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Furniture
CONT

[These] worksurfaces, available in high and low pressure laminates with PVC [polyvinyl chloride] edging, feature a single scoop … at the centre of the rear edge. … While scoops allow for equipment cord plugs to pass between worksurface and floor level, the gap(running between the scoops) provides freedom of placement for table mounted flat monitor arm, cords and equipment on the worksurface.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilier de bureau
CONT

Les surfaces de travail […], offertes en stratifié haute pression ou en mélamine avec un chant en PVC [polychlorure de vinyle], comportent une découpe au centre de la face arrière […] Alors que les découpes permettent d'acheminer les câbles électriques entre la surface de travail et le plancher, le dégagement (entre les découpes) permet d'installer un support d'écran monté à la table et d'y placer des câbles ou du matériel de bureau.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
CONT

The central pressure of Maria at landfall was estimated to be 985 millibars and the storm's strongest winds were to the right of its track. At landfall the highest winds were located far enough from the storm's centre that they did not pass over land.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
CONT

À l'endroit où Maria a touché terre, sa pression centrale a été estimée à 985 millibars, les vents les plus forts de la tempête se trouvant à droite de sa trajectoire. À l'arrivée à terre, les vents les plus forts se situaient suffisamment loin du centre de la tempête pour ne pas souffler sur les terres.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rail Transport
CONT

Cranbrook became the railway centre of the East Kootenay in British Columbia once the Crowsnest Pass Route was in operation in 1898 and Nelson was its counterpart to the west. As division points, they were the places where large yards, engine servicing facilities and terminal offices were located.

Key term(s)
  • railway center

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par rail
DEF

Espace géographique dénommé rassemblant une collection d'objets ferroviaires[, qui peuvent être des gares, des tunnels, des viaducs ou des dépôts].

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
CONT

A sweep ramp provides the tuning voltage for a voltage-tuned oscillator and is simultaneously applied to the horizontal-deflection system of a cathode-ray-tube display. The local-oscillator frequency is mixed with the input signal to produce an intermediate frequency (IF). The IF is detected, filtered, and applied to the vertical deflection plates of the CRT [cathode-ray-tube].

CONT

The receiver has to have suitable pass band characteristics to deal with the pulse modulation side bands, and must be free from paralysis following reception of a large signal... Its output is rectified and amplified and applied to the cathode-ray tube display, either as a deflexion or an intensity modulation. The cathode-ray tube is also supplied with a range time base..., synchronized to the pulse transmission, and suitable calibration devices... are usually also necessary. The form of the display unit depends on the particular radar application, and on what coordinate or coordinates other than range are to be presented. For example, in the plan position indicator the time base starts from the centre of the tube and goes radically outwards in a direction depending on the azimuth of the beamed aerials(which sweeps continuously), and the signal is presented as a spot intensifier.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

A lengthwise sawing method consisting of sawing logs into four parts by using perpendicular cuts that intersect at the middle, then retaking each quarter and cutting it so as to have the sawing plane pass through the centre of the tree or parallel to the medullary rays.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Mode de débitage en long qui consiste à découper des billes en quatre parties par des traits de scie perpendiculaires qui se croisent au centre, puis à reprendre chaque quartier pour le débiter en faisant passer le plan de sciage par le centre de l'arbre ou parallèlement aux rayons médullaires.

Spanish

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Record 7 2006-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Stars (Astronomy)
DEF

two stars revolving about their common centre of mass in an orbit whose plane passes through or very near the Earth. An observer on the Earth thus sees one star pass periodically over the face of another and diminish its light through an eclipse. The star Algol was the first eclipsing binary to be discovered.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Étoiles (Astronomie)
DEF

Étoile qui se révèle double par l'existence d'une courbe de lumière périodique particulière due à des effets géométriques.

CONT

La plupart des binaires, telle Algol, dites à éclipse ont de courtes périodes de révolution, souvent moins de dix jours. On connaît cependant des exceptions: il existe des systèmes dont les périodes sont supérieures à un an. La binaire à éclipse VV Cephei a quant à elle une période de plus de vingt ans.

Key term(s)
  • binaire à éclipses
  • étoile double à éclipses
  • système binaire à éclipses

Spanish

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Record 8 2000-12-21

English

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

Steel cable-braced bridges... The first monocable bridge was built over the Elbe at Hamburg(1961). The 564-foot... span was braced by cables only on the longitudinal centre line of the bridge. The towers over which they pass consist of single posts with roadways on either side... Monocables have only about 70 percent of the weight of dual cables, because they are less affected by asymmetric live load.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
OBS

Dans le domaine des interventions en sites exceptionnels, l'année 1998 a été pour les équipes de la société ELITE l'occasion de relever un défi technique particulièrement audacieux : la pose de la passerelle provisoire pour le déroulage du câble porteur du pont suspendu au Viaduc de Chavanon sur l'Autoroute A.89.

OBS

Voir la fiche «pont à câbles porteurs / cable supported bridge».

Spanish

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Record 9 2000-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
OBS

Park is open year-round and the Rogers Pass Information Centre is open 5 days a week. There are 2 campgrounds in the park containing 77 campsites. Glacier also has some designated backcountry camping areas as well as areas where random camping is allowed. Backcountry campers are not required to register, however there is a voluntary registration program. Visitors should check with the park in advance of their trip to find out what services are provided. Visitors overnighting in the backcountry are required to purchase Wilderness Passes(based on the number of nights stayed), this in addition to a daily park pass. The Rogers Pass Information Centre is the main interpretive and general information centre for Glacier National Park. The Rogers Pass Information Centre is located in the heart of the park. It is 70 kms east of Revelstoke, B. C. and 80 kms west of Golden, B. C. The Centre is open daily, mid-May through September and December through March, the remainder of the year the Centre is open 5 days a week.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
Key term(s)
  • Centre de renseignements du Col-Rogers

Spanish

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Record 10 2000-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geographical Names
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
OBS

Rails Trail from the Rogers Pass Centre to the Summit Monument. Along the way you pass by the remains of several old snowsheds. Nearby, the Tractor Sheds picnic area commemorates the historic route of the railway, and the completion of the Trans-Canada Highway.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géographiques
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
Key term(s)
  • terrain de pique-nique des Hangars

Spanish

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Record 11 1988-06-28

English

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

Swing bridge or pivot bridge or turn bridge. A movable bridge that swings on a vertical pivot at its centre, to allow vessels to pass.

OBS

See records swing bridge and railroad bridge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
OBS

Les ponts tournants (...) Le plus long du monde est un pont-rail (...)

Spanish

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Record 12 1979-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
OBS

The puck is passed from a player over the blue line to player over the centre red line. Legal pass.

OBS

See section VII no (b) 1 in ACHA-10E level 1.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
OBS

La rondelle est passée d'un joueur qui a dépassé la ligne bleue vers un joueur qui a dépassé la ligne centrale. Passe permise.

OBS

«passe réglementaire» : Selon le comité d'uniformisation de hockey, cet équivalent est un synonyme exact.

Spanish

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