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Record 1 2012-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Wind Energy
DEF

An instrument used to indicate wind direction ...

CONT

Wind vane [consists] basically of an asymmetrically shaped object mounted at its center of gravity about a vertical axis; the end which offers the greater resistance to the motion of air moves to the downwind positions, the direction of the wind is determined by reference to an attached oriented compass rose.

OBS

weathercock: weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Dispositif indiquant la direction d'où vient le vent.

CONT

La girouette est composée d'une mince plaque de métal découpée suivant des motifs divers, montée sur une tige verticale, ou verge, sur laquelle elle pivote librement; c'est parfois la tige elle-même qui pivote sur une base à roulement à billes.

CONT

La direction du vent est mesurée à l'aide d'une girouette, surface profilée mobile autour d'un axe vertical. Cette direction exprimée en degrés, est celle d'où souffle le vent et est repérée à partir du nord géographique dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
  • Energía eólica
DEF

Objeto consistente en una pieza de metal, generalmente en forma de flecha más o menos adornada, que puede girar sobre un eje vertical y se coloca en sitios altos, por ejemplo encima de una torre, para que indique la dirección del viento.

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Record 2 2011-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
CONT

... methane gas bubbling through seafloor sediments has created hundreds of low hills on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. These enigmatic features, which can grow up to 40 meters(130 feet) tall and several hundred meters across, have puzzled scientists ever since they were first discovered in the 1940s.... "Pingo-like features" are similar in shape and size to pingos on land, but are found underwater, on the continental shelf in several parts of the Arctic. Previous studies have suggested that pingo-like features are pingos that formed on land but were submerged when sea level rose following the end of the last ice age, over 10, 000 years ago.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
CONT

Au large, ont été recensés 200 pingos sous-marins, édifiés, peut-être, au maximum de la glaciation, pendant lequel le niveau des mers était inférieur de 130 m à l'actuel.

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Black Products (Petroleum)
DEF

North sea reference crude oil.

CONT

The oversupplied oil market experienced during 1998 was transformed into a much tighter market in 1999, and crude oil prices rose from $10. 75/bbl for the dated Brent marker crude in early January to $24. 54/bbl at year end.

CONT

... there have been changes in the physical base of the main markets. All three of the key world marker crude oils, WTI, Brent and, most severely, Dubai, are in long-term production decline.

OBS

Crude is priced at a particular location with reference to its source which serves as an indicator of type or grade. West Texas Intermediate, North Sea Brent and Saudi Arabia light are similar crudes and are used as the benchmark crudes for pricing other types of light crude oil.

Key term(s)
  • Brent benchmark crude
  • Brent marker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits noirs (Pétrole)
CONT

Le prix du pétrole brut de référence «brent» (mer du Nord), qui est l'un des meilleurs indicateurs de prix en Europe, s'est très légèrement repris hier en s'affichant à plus de 10 dollars le baril après avoir pour la première fois crevé, la veille, le seuil des 10 dollars.

CONT

Jusqu'en 1986, la référence était l'Arabian light Fob Ras Tanura. On utilise désormais : le brent (Mer du Nord, Europe, 38 °API); le Dubai Fateh (Golfe persique, densité 32 °API) et le WTI (West Texas Intermediate, US, 40 °API).

CONT

En 1998, la marge de raffinage sur le Brent (pétrole brut de référence de mer du Nord) s'est établie en moyenne à 110F/tonne.

OBS

Brent : Gisement découvert en 1971 au large d'Aberdeen et mis en exploitation en 1976. Champ britannique le plus productif de la mer du Nord, il a donné son nom au brut de référence de cette région. Léger, son degré API est de 37.

Spanish

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Record 4 1997-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

A Mesopotamian temple tower; from the end of the 3rd millennium B. C. on, ziggurats rose in three to seven stages, diminishing in area and often in height, square(Sumer) or rectangular(Assyria), built of mud brick and faced with baked brick laid in bitumen; had outside staircase and a shrine at the top.

DEF

An Assyrian or Babylonian temple-tower in the form of a truncated pyramid in diminishing stages, each stage being reached by ramps.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

Édifice religieux d'origine mésopotamienne, fait de la superposition de plates-formes de dimensions décroissantes, dont la plus petite, au sommet, porte une chapelle.

Spanish

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Record 5 1987-10-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boring (Machine-Tooling)
CONT

Rose reamers cut on the end only and can be used to remove material quickly and bring the hole fairly close to the size required.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alésage (Usinage)

Spanish

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