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Record 1 2021-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Techniques
  • Forage Crops
DEF

[A] large pile of hay built in the open air, of regular form and finished off with a pointed or ridged top.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques de récolte
  • Culture des plantes fourragères

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marine Biology
  • Fish
  • Aquaculture
DEF

Applied to fish that undertake regular migrations in large freshwater systems.

PHR

potamodromous migration

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie marine
  • Poissons
  • Aquaculture
DEF

Relatif aux poissons qui migrent uniquement en eau douce, dans les cours d'eau.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología Marina
  • Peces
  • Acuicultura
DEF

Nombre que recibe el pez que solo migra en aguas dulces.

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Record 3 2019-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Waste Management
CONT

Bulky waste or bulky refuse is a technical term taken from waste management to describe waste types that are too large to be accepted by the regular waste collection. It is usually picked up regularly in many countries from the streets or pavements of the area.

OBS

Waste is considered to be an uncountable noun. However, it is often found in the plural form (wastes), particularly when speaking of different types of waste.

PHR

bulky waste collection, bulky waste disposal

Key term(s)
  • bulky wastes
  • bulk wastes
  • large-volume wastes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des déchets
PHR

collecte de déchets encombrants, ramassage de déchets encombrants

Key term(s)
  • déchet encombrant
  • déchet volumineux
  • gros déchet

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión de los desechos
Key term(s)
  • desechos voluminosos
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Record 4 2014-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plumbing Fixtures
CONT

Combination sink and tray. Large deep bowl with movable cover and regular sink. Used as laundry-sink combination. Most frequent in apartments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils sanitaires
CONT

Les appareils de cuisine comprennent les éviers courants (...) les tables-éviers et les tables-timbres (égouttoir et évier forment un ensemble d'un seul bloc).

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

In geology, the assemblage of structural features that together with the rock substances make up the rock mass with the emphasis being on the structural features.

CONT

Structure refers to [large] scale features displayed by the rock. Most sedimentary rocks show bedding or layering, expressed by variations in texture and mineralogy.... Four main forms of bedding may be recognized :Regular bedding... Graded bedding... Current bedding... Slump bedding.

OBS

Not to be confused with "texture."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

En géologie, l'ensemble des caractéristiques structurales qui constitue avec les substances rocheuses, la masse rocheuse avec l'accentuation sur les caractéristiques structurales.

OBS

Les termes «texture» et «structure» n'ont pas toujours un sens défini et sont fréquemment [et à tort] employés l'un pour l'autre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
DEF

Modo como están dispuestos los elementos que constituyen [una roca].

CONT

[...] la estructura de las rocas basálticas puede ser prismática, columnaria o cilíndrica.

OBS

estructura: no confundir con "textura".

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Record 6 2013-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dentistry
DEF

A dento-alveolar disharmony where the size of the teeth is too large, relative to the dental arches, to permit their regular arrangement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dentisterie
DEF

Disharmonie dento-alvéolaire dans laquelle la dimension des dents est trop grande, par rapport aux arcades dentaires, pour permettre un alignement régulier.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Odontología
DEF

Falta de armonía dento-alveolar, en la cual el tamaño de los dientes es demasiado grande con relación a los arcos dentales, para permitir su alineación regular.

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Record 7 2011-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
  • Biotechnology
CONT

Immobilization of enzymes by crystallization and subsequent cross-linking provides structures which have a regular three-dimensional molecular arrangement, and a high packing density. Such structures are useful for both X-ray diffraction analysis, and also physico-chemical studies of enzymes in the solid state. An important feature of the enzyme crystals is that they have large liquid-filled channels surrounding the individual protein molecules, therefore, as in dilute solution, most of the surface of the enzyme is in contact with the surrounding solvent. Since the channels are permeable to low molecular weight solutes, it is possible to study the properties of enzymes in crystals in much the same way as when in solution. Lysosyme is an... enzyme whose catalytic mechanism is being studied. X-ray analysis of the crystalline enzyme shows that it contains a long cleft as its active site, which can accommodate its normal substrate, the long-chain peptidoglycan of bacterial cell walls.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
  • Biotechnologie
CONT

Dans les années 1930, un grand scepticisme demeurait cependant encore sur la véritable nature protéique des catalyseurs enzymatiques que certains estimaient être de simples impuretés adsorbées sur les cristaux de protéines. Ce fut donc une chance si plusieurs des premières enzymes cristallisées véritablement pures, les protéases digestives, trypsine, chymotrypsine, pepsine, isolées par Kunitz et Northrop entre 1930 et 1940, furent des protéines totalement dépourvues de coenzyme, de cofacteur ou de métal, leur nature uniquement protéique étant ainsi démontrée. [...] Dans un grand nombre de cas maintenant, on connaît non seulement la séquence des aminoacides mais également le détail de la conformation tridimensionnelle grâce à l'étude des spectres de diffraction des rayons X de cristaux d'enzymes.

Key term(s)
  • enzyme cristallin

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bioquímica
  • Biotecnología
OBS

Tradicionalmente, la Real Academia Española (RAE) admitía únicamente el género femenino para el sustantivo enzima; así fue hasta 1984, fecha en que pasó a considerarlo de género ambiguo, que puede funcionar por igual como masculino y como femenino. El uso, no obstante, parece haberse decantado claramente en español por el femenino, que hoy se emplea en el 90% de los casos [...]

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Record 8 2011-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Residential Architecture
  • Doors, Windows and Openings (Building Elements)
DEF

The amount of sunshine received by a building (or site) depending mainly on its orientation and on the visual path of the sun.

CONT

The requirements for sunlighting and ventilation can explain the prevalence of the row layout. It usually proves easier to provide all units with an equal amount of sunshine with this type of layout... three main types of project layouts have been identified : the streetfront, the court, and the row layouts. The streetfront layout, where buildings follow the orientation of the streets or lanes, results in a random ratio of north-south to east-west oriented buildings... The court arrangement consists of clusters of buildings facing inward onto a common open space... The row layout consists of regular strings of buildings, generally with a north-south orientation, arranged on large open spaces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture d'habitation
  • Ouvertures (Éléments du bâtiment)
DEF

Rayonnement solaire susceptible d'être reçu par un terrain, un immeuble et conditionné essentiellement par l'orientation de ce terrain, de cet immeuble et la trajectoire apparente du soleil.

CONT

L'ensoleillement d'un bâtiment désigne l'exposition de ses baies au rayonnement direct du soleil.

CONT

Les fenêtres d'un bâtiment étant en retrait sur ses façades, on admet que la pénétration effective du soleil dans une pièce pendant 2 h exige l'ensoleillement de la façade pendant 2 h 30 [...] L'ensoleillement d'une façade dépend de son orientation [...] et de l'implantation relative des divers bâtiments [...]

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec "éclairement".

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Law
  • Amalgamation and Partnerships (Finance)
CONT

Corporate control may be … effected by means of negotiating regular contracts for the purchase of corporate shares from the owners. Within the framework of the latter … three scenarios may exist … In the third case, the "street sweep" or "sweep", the purchase of control is effected through a series of unrelated transactions, concluded off the exchange, between the purchaser of control and a large number of shareholders who have not coordinated their positions and as a result, have not previously wielded control of the corporation.

OBS

The term is sometimes used widely to describe open market purchases as well as privately negotiated transactions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit commercial
  • Fusion, absorption et coparticipation (Finances)
DEF

Prise de contrôle réalisée en un court laps de temps au moyen de transactions privées hors bourse entre l'acquéreur et certains actionnaires ciblés tels que des actionnaires institutionnels, des spéculateurs professionnels ou des arbitragistes.

Spanish

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Record 10 2011-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vulcanology and Seismology
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
CONT

Caldera formation. - A collapse is triggered by the emptying of the magma chamber beneath the volcano, usually as the result of a large volcanic eruption. If enough magma is erupted, the emptied chamber will not be able to support the weight of the volcanic edifice (the mountain) above. Fractures will form around the edge of the chamber, usually in a roughly circular shape. These ring fractures may in fact serve as volcanic vents. As the magma chamber empties, the center of the volcano within the ring fractures begins to collapse. The collapse may occur as the result of a single massive eruption, or it may occur in stages as the result of a series of eruptions. The total area that collapses may be hundreds or thousands of square kilometers.

CONT

Calderas can become filled with pyroclastic material and even lava. In fact, it has been suggested that caldera formation is a regular process in the growth of basalt volcanoes, such as those in Hawaii. Thus, you would have a large eruption, followed by caldera formation; the caldera is then filled over hundreds or thousands of years, built up, and then a new one is formed at a later date.

OBS

caldera formation: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volcanologie et sismologie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
CONT

Les caldeiras sont d'importantes dépressions volcaniques formées d'énormes éruptions cataclysmiques. Le lien entre la formation de caldeiras et l'origine des dépôts demeure peu compris. Les scientifiques ont comme objectif de démontrer qu'il est possible de déterminer la taille et l'emplacement en fonction de la façon et du moment où les caldeiras se sont formées.

CONT

Dans le cas du Piton de la Fournaise, l'activité continue et le phénomène de formation de caldeira se produit jusqu'à nos jours, trois fois de suite, en lissant progressivement vers l'est.

OBS

formation de caldeiras : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 11 2007-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology of Communication
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
DEF

Formats other than regular print for the presentation of information that can be used by people who are blind or visually impaired, such as braille, large print, or audio recording.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie de la communication
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
DEF

[Documents imprimés accessibles] sous une forme non traditionnelle (braille, gros caractères, audio-cassette et version électronique) à l'intention des personnes ayant une basse vision ou des troubles d'apprentissage.

Spanish

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Record 12 2007-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Fitness Training and Bodybuilding
DEF

Designating or involving exercise, such as running or swimming, that conditions the heart and lungs by increasing the efficiency of oxygen intake by the body.

CONT

Aerobic exercise is any extended activity that makes you breathe hard while using the large muscle groups at a regular, even pace. Aerobic activities help make your heart stronger and more efficient. During the early part of exercise, your body uses stored carbohydrate and circulating fatty acids(the building blocks of fat molecules) for energy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conditionnement physique et culturisme
DEF

Se dit des exercices qui facilitent l'oxygénation des poumons et le bon fonctionnement du système cardio-vasculaire.

CONT

Ainsi, un exercice aérobique d'une vingtaine de minutes réduit la pression artérielle de repos de 5 à 7 mm, et ce jusqu'à 22 heures après la fin de l'exercice.

Spanish

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Record 13 2005-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Internet Pages
  • Internet and Telematics
OBS

Broadband or high-capacity Internet is used to send or view large amounts of information including live video and audio via the Internet. This can bring people in different regions closer together--from a doctor in Vancouver and a patient in Tofino, to a grade three class in Corner Brook and a science centre in Halifax. While this would be next to impossible with Internet access, over a regular dial-up phone line broadband provides the support needed to view or participate in these opportunities.

Key term(s)
  • High-capacity Internet for all Canadian Communities

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de pages Internet
  • Internet et télématique
OBS

Les services à large bande ou [...] Internet à haute capacité servent à envoyer ou à visualiser des grandes quantités de données y compris des extraits vidéo et audio en direct sur Internet. Cela peut rapprocher des gens qui vivent dans différentes régions--depuis un médecin à Vancouver avec son patient à Tofino, jusqu'à une classe de troisième année à Corner Brook et un centre de sciences à Halifax. Alors que cela est presque impossible avec l'accès à Internet, au moyen de la ligne téléphonique commutée régulière, les services à large bande offrent le soutien nécessaire pour consulter ces possibilités ou y participer.

Key term(s)
  • Internet à haute capacité pour toutes les collectivités canadiennes

Spanish

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Record 14 2004-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Equipment
  • Equipment (Chemistry)
CONT

Our selection of deep well plates will meet the needs of any busy lab. The new 1 and 2 ml half-height plates offer the same center spacing with wider wells. All plates are SBS compliant for easy use with automation and archiving systems.

CONT

The BD BioCoat [trademark] Deep-Well Plate is a novel plate designed for use with 6-well size BD BioCoat or BD Falcon [trademark] Cell Culture Inserts. This plate accommodates the large media volumes needed when culturing cells on microporous membranes. The basolateral compartment of one well of the BD BioCoat Deep-Well Plate can hold up to seven times as much medium as the basolateral compartment of a regular 6-well plate(17 ml versus 2. 5 ml). This significantly larger media volume reduces the frequency of cell feeding during extended cell culture periods or when culturing cells at the air-liquid interface. Recommended applications include the culture of Caco-2 cells, airway epithelial cells, or keratinocytes on BD BioCoat and BD Falcon [trademark] Cell Culture Inserts.

CONT

96-well deep-well plate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel et équipement (Recherche scientifique)
  • Équipement (Chimie)
OBS

plaque à cupules profondes : terme proposé à partir de «plaque à 96 cupules» et de «plaques de microtitrage à 96 cupules à fond rond», relevés dans un catalogue de matériel de laboratoire et dans l'Internet.

Spanish

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Record 15 2002-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Telecommunications
  • Conferences and Colloquia: Organization
DEF

One-way videoconferencing, or one-way video with two-way audio, used by large organizations on a regular or ad hoc basis for such purposes as broadcasting special events(press releases, new product announcements, etc.) or training sessions to remote locations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
  • Télécommunications
  • Organisation de congrès et de conférences
DEF

Vidéoconférence unidirectionnelle, avec ou sans retour son, qui permet aux grandes entreprises de retransmettre des événements spéciaux (conférences de presse, lancements de produits, etc.) vers une ou plusieurs salles de réception éloignées ou de diffuser régulièrement des cours de formation ou toute autre information à des employés travaillant dans des établissements distants.

Spanish

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Record 16 2001-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fences and Enclosures
CONT

In Costa Rica, 95% of the farmers fence with living trees instead of dead posts... Farmers establish living fences by planting large cuttings about 2. 5 m long and 8-20 cm in diameter, attaching several strands of barbed wire to them... Living fences are usually pruned once a year to keep them in good shape and to avoid damage to the wire... Living fences are comparatively cost-effective, need careful establishment and regular maintenance, are long-lived, provide numerous products and benefits besides fencing, are difficult to remove, and are very popular among poor farmers. Dead fences, by contrast, are expensive, require much labor to establish, need some maintenance, are of limited durability, are easy to remove, provide no other products, but are more prestigious than living fences.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Enceintes et clôtures
DEF

Clôture faite de plantes vivantes, d'arbres, etc., et non pas de poteaux. Source : Pierre Bolduc, Agence canadienne de développement international (foresterie).

OBS

Noter que la «clôture vive» peut être fabriquée uniquement de matériaux vivants, ou d'un mélange de ceux-ci et de matériaux inertes : par exemple, des barbelés fixés à des arbres vivants.

Spanish

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Record 17 2000-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Blasting Work (Mining)
DEF

A term applied to the method of blasting in which large charges are fired in small adits or tunnels driven, at the level of the floor, in the face of a quarry or slope of an open-pit mine.

OBS

Coyote blasting is best adapted to faces from 80 to 175 ft. high, where the surface is irregular and where a large tonnage of rock is to be broken at one blast. In high banks, the use of supplementary churn drill holes, about one-third the depth of the face, gives a more regular line of break.

OBS

coyote-hole blasting: American term for quarry blasting in chambers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail aux explosifs (Exploitation minière)
DEF

Méthode de sautage qui consiste à creuser une galerie à flanc de montagne, à y placer des explosifs et à procéder au sautage.

CONT

Abattage par grands fourneaux.- Cette méthode consiste à creuser au pied de la carrière normalement à la paroi d'une galerie de 1 à 2 m² de section et d'une profondeur égale au moins à la moitié de la hauteur du front, et ensuite à l'extrémité de celle-ci et à angle droit, deux galeries de même section au fond desquelles on place des charges importantes d'explosif qu'on isole par des bourrages soignés [...]

Key term(s)
  • abatage par grands fourneaux

Spanish

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Record 18 2000-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Blasting Work (Mining)
CONT

Long-hole blasting. This method of blasting, employing diamond drills or extension steel drills with tungsten carbide bits, is being applied increasingly to ore winning operations where conditions are suitable. The essential requirements from the practical and economic point of view are :(1) a large ore body or wide regular vein;(2) a strong country rock;(3) a good parting between the ore and the rock to avoid undue contamination of the ore. Holes to take up to 2-inch diameter cartridges may be drilled. Since the drilling of long holes is relatively expensive, high-strength, high-density gelatinous explosives are usually employed so that the maximum burden can be placed on each hole. For this reason also, the largest diameter of explosive cartridge that can be loaded into the holes should be used to obtain the greatest possible loading density.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail aux explosifs (Exploitation minière)
CONT

L'abattage par longs trous et, en particulier, avec des charges concentrées [...] permet l'utilisation de gros diamètres de foration et de toute la technique des exploitations à ciel ouvert.

OBS

Selon le Dictionnaire des industries, il y aurait deux méthodes d'abattage par longs trous, l'abattage par longs trous horizontaux et l'abattage par longs trous verticaux.

Key term(s)
  • abattage par trous de mine profonds

Spanish

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Record 19 2000-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

The regular decrease in diameter of a log from its large to small end, exclusive of butt swell.

OBS

normal taper: term and definition reproduced with the permission of the copyright holder, CSA International, 178 Rexdale Blvd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M9W 1R3. However, CSA International shall not be responsible for the manner in which the information is presented, nor for any interpretations thereof. This CSA International material may not have been updated to reflect amendments subsequently made to the original content. For further information, contact CSA International.

OBS

normal taper: term and definition standardized by CSA International.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Diminution régulière du diamètre d'une grume, depuis le gros bout vers le fin bout, sans tenir compte du pattu.

OBS

défilement normal : terme et définition reproduits avec l'autorisation de la CSA International, 178, boul. Rexdale, Toronto (Ontario), Canada M9W 1R3 (détentrice des droits d'auteur). La CSA International décline toute responsabilité quant à la façon dont la matière est présentée et quant à toute interprétation pouvant en découler. L'information reproduite pourrait ne pas être à jour. Pour plus de renseignements, communiquer avec la CSA International.

OBS

défilement normal : terme et définition normalisés par la CSA International.

Spanish

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Record 20 1999-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
CONT

Trees up to five inches in trunk diameter are normally supported by guying with the wires attached to stakes, these guy wires spaced at 120-degree angles. Wires may be fastened to the tree in the same manners already discussed, although in this instance all attachment point should be at least six inches apart. Attachment should be as high in the tree as practical and certainly at or above the lowest branches. Again, guy wires should be attached to stakes driven 18 inches into undisturbed soil. The axis of the stake should be in line with the axis of the pull on the guy wire.

CONT

Most large trees and shrubs require support staking or guying to hold them erect against buffeting winds. Wood or metal stakes are usual for single-trunked trees up to 3 inches in caliper and provide better support if used in pairs. Guy wiring with turnbuckles is used for anchoring large plant materials, and guy placement ordinarily follows either a triangular or rectangular pattern around the main stem. Both types of support require regular inspection for proper tauntness--up to a year for woody plants....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture
CONT

Le haubanage. Lorsque l'arbre planté est d'une circonférence supérieure à 16-18 ou d'une morphologie interdisant la pose d'un tuteur (conifères, par exemple), utilisons trois haubans. Un hauban est un fil de fer, avec tendeur au besoin, qui relie un piquet fermement enfoncé dans le sol à une attache protégée par un tampon sur le tronc. Le point de fixation de cette attache se trouve environ entre la moitié et la base du tiers supérieur du tronc et les fils de fer sont posés approximativement à 45 °. Le jeu réciproque des trois haubans disposés à 120 ° l'un de l'autre, immobilise l'arbre. La raideur des haubans est réglée par les tendeurs et révisée régulièrement les premières semaines après la plantation, pour tenir compte du tassement des terres.

Spanish

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Record 21 1998-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Management (General)
  • Corporate Economics
DEF

Entrepreneurship within a large company. Sometimes staff develop products in addition to their regular jobs. In other cases, a small unit, or several of them, are created within the company as virtual stand-alone "cells", duplicating as closely as possible the environment of the small enterprise.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion de l'entreprise (Généralités)
  • Économie de l'entreprise
DEF

Entreprise créée à l'intérieur d'une autre entreprise.

CONT

Il s'est avéré qu'il était plus intéressant pour l'entreprise mère de racheter l'unité qui commercialisait un produit à peu près similaire plutôt que de lancer un fromage concurrent en intra-prise.

Spanish

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Record 22 1994-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
CONT

A plume is a local fluctuation in the fluid temperature... which detaches itself at more or less regular intervals from the boundaries responsible for the temperature gradient in the fluid. Plumes exist mainly in high Prandtl number fluids, for the following reason. For a fluid to have a high Prandtl number means that its kinematic viscosity is much greater than its thermal diffusivity. The effectiveness of thermal diffusion is therefore low, permitting high gradients of temperature and also of density to exist for a long time before relaxing. This causes large fluctuations in the Archimedean force which drives the plumes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Physique
DEF

Bouffée verticale provoquée par la fluctuation locale de la température d'un fluide.

PHR

La plume arrive, atteint la couche limite, crée une perturbation, déforme l'image, se déplace, se détache, s'étire, se forme, glisse en travers, infléchit des rayons, monte, meurt, naît, produit des structures, se propage, remonte.

PHR

couper, émettre une plume.

PHR

plume ascendante, canonique, chaude, descendante, fractale, froide, thermique.

Spanish

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Record 23 1992-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
DEF

A dense, irregular, usually structureless, sometimes fossiliferous diagenetic segregation of chert, ranging from regular disks up to 5 cm in diameter to large, highly irregular, tuberous bodies up to 30 cm in length, frequently occurring distributed through calcareous strata.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
OBS

Voir fiches "nodule" et "chert".

Spanish

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Record 24 1991-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

The on-floor rule provides that when in the execution of a large block purchase or sale, sufficient off-setting orders cannot be found in the regular market, the brokerage firm itself may assume a liability by taking on the tag end required to complete the transaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Le règlement relatif aux opérations en bourse stipule que s'il n'y a pas suffisamment d'ordres en contrepartie sur le marché régulier, lors de l'achat ou de la vente d'un bloc important, le courtier en valeurs mobilières peut prendre lui-même position sur le reliquat pour exécuter intégralement l'opération.

Spanish

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Record 25 1991-10-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire Prevention
CONT

The direct responsibility for museum firesafety should be vested in a high-level executive. In a large museum this executive may designate a "fire protection manager" to advise and assist him/her in the organizing and implementing of the firesafety program and to carry out its day-to-day functions. The fire protection manager, e. g., the building superintendent, chief engineer, chief security officer, should be vested with sufficient authority to perform his/her assignment effectively and should consult with and report to the responsible official at regular intervals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévention des incendies
OBS

Voir la fiche "fire protection/protection contre l'incendie".

Spanish

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Record 26 1986-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics (Physics)
DEF

A spring that has periods of relatively large continuous discharge at more or less regular and frequent intervals. Such springs may be classified as perennial or intermittent. Although the discharge of such a spring resembles somewhat that of a geyser in its rhythmic action, such discharge is due to an entirely different cause, such as siphon action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Mécanique des fluides et hydraulique (Physique)
DEF

Source ayant des périodes de débit continu, relativement grand, se produisant à des intervalles plus ou moins réguliers et fréquents.

Spanish

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Record 27 1978-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mail Pickup and Distribution
  • Postal Correspondence
  • Postal Service Operation
DEF

a processing stream which includes oversized envelopes and individual magazines.

OBS

flats : pieces of first-or third-class letter mail which are too large to be distributed in a regular letter case and are distributed in a special case or machine provided for that purpose. Mail in envelopes larger than 6X11.

OBS

processing stream: (...) a flow of mail items of like physical characteristics, generally processed on different types of equipment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Levée et distribution du courrier
  • Objets de correspondance (Postes)
  • Exploitation postale
OBS

L'une des quelques opérations importantes encore effectuées entièrement à la main dans les centres de tri postal au Canada est le traitement des grands objets plats.

OBS

Le flot du courrier peut contenir toutes sortes d'objets (...). A différentes étapes du traitement, ces objets sont écartés du flot principal pour être triés séparément.

Spanish

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Record 28 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postal Service Operation
DEF

A service provided to customers at the main post office, postal stations and certain designated sub offices to obtain personal contact mail, such as COD's and large parcels, which could not be delivered by the regular delivery service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation postale
OBS

Après tentative de livraison.

Spanish

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