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SEA PASSAGE [11 records]

Record 1 2024-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Locks (Canals)
  • Water Transport
CONT

Sea locks are used in coastal areas where canals or waterways meet the ocean. These locks are designed to protect the inland waterways from the tidal variations and ensure a controlled passage for vessels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écluses
  • Transport par eau
CONT

Le port est constitué de deux parties : la partie amont du port maintenue à flot dans laquelle sont localisées l'aire de réparation navale et l'aire de carénage plaisance, le plan d'eau étant maintenu à un niveau constant par une écluse maritime et un déversoir [...] La partie aval, soumise au jeu des marées et vouée à l'échouage des navires en stationnement.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marine Biology
  • Zoology
CONT

Amphidromy is a distinctive form of diadromy that involves some fish, decapod crustaceans and gastropod molluscs. Characteristic elements in amphidromy are : reproduction in fresh water, passage to sea by newly hatched larvae, a period of feeding and growing at sea usually a few months long, return to fresh water of well‐grown juveniles, a further period of feeding and growing in fresh water, followed by reproduction there.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie marine
  • Zoologie
CONT

[L'un des types de diadromie observée est] l'amphidromie : la reproduction se déroule en eau douce. Les larves à éclosion doivent rejoindre l'océan pour se développer. Après une période de développement en mer, les post-larves ou juvéniles colonisent les bassins versants par l'embouchure. En rivière, les juvéniles vont achever leur maturation pour devenir géniteurs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología Marina
  • Zoología
DEF

Comportamiento migratorio de peces y camarones que viven en los ríos y que penetran las zonas de agua salobre o salada (estuarios) para completar su ciclo de vida antes de regresar a los ríos para vivir como adultos.

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Record 3 2019-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

... a sea passage in the Northern Territory of Australia located between Melville Island and the Cobourg Peninsula.

Key term(s)
  • Strait of Dundas

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

[...] détroit reliant la mer d'Arafura et le golfe de Van Diemen, dans le nord de l'Australie.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
OBS

A passage near Cartwright, between the Labrador Sea and Sandwich Bay.

OBS

Coordinates: 53° 42’ 2" N, 57° 10’ 33" W (Newfoundland and Labrador).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Passage près de Cartwright, entre la mer du Labrador et la baie Sandwich.

OBS

Coordonnées : 53° 42' 2" N, 57° 10' 33" O (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador).

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • River and Sea Navigation
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Glaciology
DEF

A relatively large area of free navigable water in an ice-encumbered sea.

CONT

... there is insufficient knowledge or experience to predict... what the effects will be of the areas of open water left by the ships’ passage in an otherwise ice-covered sea.

CONT

Ice is melting so fast in the Arctic that the North Pole will be in the open sea in 30 years, according to a team of leading climatologists.

OBS

open water; open water area; open sea: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Navigation fluviale et maritime
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Glaciologie
DEF

Zone relativement vaste d'eau libre et navigable dans une mer encombrée de glaces.

OBS

Aux États-Unis, zone de mer ayant une concentration de glace inférieure à 1/10.

OBS

mer libre; eaux libres : termes uniformisés par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie navale.

OBS

mer libre; eau libre; zone d'eau libre; étendue d'eau libre : termes en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Navegación fluvial y marítima
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
  • Glaciología
OBS

aguas abiertas: término proveniente del Código Sanitario Internacional para los Animales Acuáticos, 2002.

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Record 6 2015-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of the Sea
  • International Public Law
CONT

Right of innocent passage.... Article 14. 1. Subject to the provisions of these articles, ships of all States, whether coastal or not, shall enjoy the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea. 2. Passage means navigation through the territorial sea... 4. Passage is innocent so long as it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State. Such passage shall take place in conformity with these articles and with other rules of international law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la mer
  • Droit international public
DEF

passage innocent : Expression employée, notamment quand on parle de droit de passage innocent ou inoffensif, pour désigner le fait par un navire étranger de traverser la mer territoriale d'un État sans rien faire qui porte atteinte aux droits de l'État riverain ou les menace.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho del mar
  • Derecho internacional público
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Record 7 2011-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Insulation and Acoustical Design
  • Thermal Insulation
CONT

Cork Insulation. Cork is the outer bark of an oak tree that flourishes only in the area surrounding the western Mediterranean Sea. Instead of being fibrous in structure, the bark of the cork oak is composed of tiny cells, so small that there are 200 million of them to every cubic inch of cork bark. These tiny cells give cork a high resistance to the passage of heat. Each cell is filled with still air, and next to a vacuum, still air is the best insulation known. Because the cells are so tiny, no convection currents in the air can be established to reduce its insulation properties. The cellular structure gives the material its high degree of natural moisture resistance. Each tiny cork cell is a perfect geometric shape, having 14 sides. The volume of cork includes more than 75% air. Its thermal conductivity is 0. 26 Btu per square foot per hour per degree temperature difference at 60 degrees F.(metric), and 0. 30 Btu per square foot per degree temperature difference at 180 degrees F(metric).

OBS

cork insulation: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale
  • Isolation thermique
OBS

Les isolants peuvent être classés, selon leur origine, en 3 catégories : 1er les matériaux d'origine minérale [...]; 2e les matériaux d'origine végétale (liège, balsa, paille, varech); 3e les matériaux plastiques alvéolaires [...]

OBS

Le tronc du chêne-liège est recouvert d'une écorce épaisse, récoltée pour fabriquer des bouchons ou des matériaux isolants.

OBS

Cahier Enviroguide chlore, chap. 4.1.4.

OBS

isolant de liège : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Demolition (Military)
  • Naval Mines
DEF

That part of the operating circuit of a sea mine which distinguishes between the response of the detecting circuit to the passage of a ship and the response to other disturbances(e. g. influence sweep, countermining, etc.).

OBS

discriminating circuit: term and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Destruction (Militaire)
  • Mines marines
DEF

Partie d'un circuit de mise de feu qui fait la distinction entre la réponse du détecteur à une cible et la réponse à d'autres perturbations (par exemple dragues à influence, contre-minage, etc).

OBS

circuit d'analyse : terme uniformisé par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie navale; terme et définition normalisés par l'OTAN.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Destrucción (Militar)
  • Minas marinas
DEF

Parte del circuito de toma de fuego de una mina naval que distingue entre la señal que recibe el detector de un blanco y las señales producidas por otras perturbaciones (por ejemplo: dragados de influencia; contraminados, etc.).

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Record 9 2002-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

Part of Mediterranean Sea constituting the passage between Southeast Sicily and Malta.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)

Spanish

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Record 10 2002-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
CONT

There are at least three distinct types of cold pool : 1. Large(in areal extent), slow-moving vortices at latitudes poleward of roughly 50deg N & S. They are often over, or immediately downwind of the source regions of polar or arctic air masses, in such areas as the Canadian Arctic or Siberian Russia.... 2. Once cold air from the source region as detailed in(1.) above is caught up in the circulation of mid-latitude depressions, the characteristics of the air mass are altered. Warming from below(over relatively warmer sea surfaces for example), leads to instability developing, and with an accompanying injection of moisture(after a reasonable length of passage over the sea), cloudy convection(showers, thunderstorms) is triggered. Cold pools in these situations are often maxima of such activity, with surface charts showing west or northwesterly airflow, often with cyclonically curved isobars. The cold pool will move in the general synoptic flow, and will eventually warm out(disappear) due to sensible & latent heat exchanges within the environment of the cold pool. However,... sometimes the cold pool will transform into a slow-moving, longer-lasting entity, particularly if the feed of ex-polar air on its western flank is maintained-this occurs in highly meridional situations. 3. A pool of cold air can also become ’detached’ at lower latitudes...

Key term(s)
  • pool of cold air
  • pool of cold-air

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
DEF

Invasion d'un air froid d'origine polaire aux latitudes moyennes.

CONT

En 1992, deux auteurs anglais, Price et Vaughan, publièrent une étude statistique des gouttes froides, en séparant 3 types : les gouttes froides de type arctique, de type polaire et de type subtropicale, en fonction du courant-jet au voisinage duquel eut lieu le détachement stratosphérique. Ces auteurs montrèrent que les gouttes froides de type subtropical sont plus petite, et durent moins longtemps, que les gouttes froides qui se forment aux latitudes moyennes et polaires.

CONT

Goutte froide [...] dont l'arrivée aux latitudes plus basses équivaut à une aggravation du temps par activation du front polaire.

CONT

La Goutte Froide et le cordon qui l'alimente en air stratosphérique polaire sont bordés par un fort jet-stream dont le maximum d'intensité se situe vers 9 km d'altitude.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Física de la atmósfera
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Record 11 1981-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
CONT

... précipitation of chlorine ions in sea water by passage over a cation exchanger saturated with silver ions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
CONT

[...] la précipitation de l'ion chlore contenu dans l'eau de mer par passage sur un échangeur de cations saturé d'ions argent.

Spanish

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