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PROPAGATING MEDIUM [5 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2025-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Blasting Work (Mining)
  • Explosives and Pyrotechnical Materials (Industries)
  • Fires and Explosions
  • Weapon Systems
DEF

Combustion propagating through the initial medium at a subsonic velocity, driven by thermal conduction.

OBS

deflagration: designation and definition standardized by NATO; designation standardized by ISO and officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail aux explosifs (Exploitation minière)
  • Explosifs et artifices (Industries)
  • Feux et explosions
  • Systèmes d'armes
DEF

Combustion se propageant à une vitesse subsonique dans le milieu initial, pilotée par conduction thermique.

OBS

déflagration : désignation et définition normalisées par l'OTAN; désignation normalisée par l'ISO.

OBS

déflagration : désignation uniformisée par le Groupe d'experts en terminologie interarmées, par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des munitions, par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères et par le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trabajo con explosivos (Explotación minera)
  • Explosivos y fuegos de artificio (Industrias)
  • Fuegos y explosiones
  • Sistemas de armas
DEF

Reacción de combustión rápida, con llama y sin explosión, de una sustancia que se propaga a toda su masa con una velocidad subsónica.

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Record 2 2000-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bombs and Grenades
  • Peace-Keeping Operations
  • Arms Control
CONT

When a bomb is detonated in hard rock, the immediately surrounding medium will flow plastically, crack and deform in a non-linear way; as the stresses imposed by the propagating shock decay to a certain "critical stress" level, elastic propagation begins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bombes et grenades
  • Opérations de maintien de la paix
  • Contrôle des armements
OBS

Fascicule no 2, NY, 1990

OBS

Reproduit du lexique «Disarmament and Peace Keeping/Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Explosives and Pyrotechnical Materials (Industries)
  • Peace-Keeping Operations
  • Arms Control
DEF

Explosion detonated in close proximity to the surrounding rock and for which the propagating shock wave first cracks and deforms the surrounding medium in a non-linear way(plastically) and later(farther away from the explosion), after a certain critical stress level has been reached, causes the medium to behave elastically; the rock must be hard or water-saturated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Explosifs et artifices (Industries)
  • Opérations de maintien de la paix
  • Contrôle des armements
OBS

Fascicule no 2, New York, 1990

OBS

Reproduit du lexique «Disarmament and Peace Keeping/Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

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Record 4 1994-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematical Geography
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

A wave propagating through the ionosphere, which is a non homogeneous(in space and time) and dispersive medium, experiences delay.

OBS

phase delay depends on electron content and affects carrier signals. Group delay depends on dispersion in the ionosphere as well, and affects signal modulation (codes). The phase and group delay are of the same magnitude but opposite sign.

OBS

Term and definition provided by the Canadian Hydrographic Service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie mathématique
  • Télédétection
DEF

La propagation d'une onde dans l'ionosphère, qui est un milieu non homogène (dans l'espace et dans le temps) et dispersif, est retardée.

OBS

Le temps de propagation de phase dépend de la teneur en électrons et influence les porteuses. Le temps de propagation de groupe dépend également de la dispersion dans l'ionosphère et influence la modulation des signaux (codes). Les temps de propagation de phase et de groupe sont du même ordre de grandeur mais de signes opposés. Le retard de propagation du signal GPS est causé par la présence d'électrons chargés dans l'ionosphère.

Spanish

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Record 5 1983-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Broadcasting
  • Optical Telecommunications
DEF

Modulation of a lightwave by variation of the optical absorption of the transmission medium in which the wave is propagating. The optical absorption is usually varied by means of an applied electric field. Optical absorption takes place near the edges of the absorption band.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiodiffusion
  • Télécommunications optiques

Spanish

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