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THICK SECTION [13 records]

Record 1 2025-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tomography
DEF

[A] tomography that has a particularly thick area of focus, resulting in thicker sections for examination.

CONT

Narrow-angle tomography... is used when localization is necessary because the exact location of a structure is unknown or when a survey is being performed... A small exposure amplitude is used to produce a thick section...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tomographie
DEF

Technique de tomographie standard qui, par un déplacement de faible amplitude du système tube-film, génère une coupe tomographique épaisse [...] d'un organe déterminé, avec peu de trainées de balayage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tomografía
DEF

Técnica radiológica similar a la tomografía, diferenciándose, únicamente, en que el grosor de corte es mayor.

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Record 2 2018-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Recipes
  • Restaurant Menus
CONT

A beef roast from the rib section between the short loin and the chuck. The three most popular styles are standing rib roast, rolled rib roast and rib-eye roast. The standing rib roast usually includes at least three ribs(less than that is really just a very thick steak). It's roasted standing upright, resting on its rack of ribs, thereby allowing the top layer of fat to melt and self-baste the meat. A rolled rib roast has had the bones removed before being rolled and tied into a cylinder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recettes de cuisine
  • Menus (Restauration)

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geological and Other Scientific Names
OBS

A same designation could refer to a geographic or a geologic entity, sometimes with a slight variant in spelling or writing. It is important to distinguish one from the other and write each correctly according to the given context.

OBS

... the Hawke Bay Formation, which is about 300 feet thick at the type section on Hawke Bay, western Newfoundland and Labrador.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géologiques ou scientifiques
OBS

La règle concernant la majuscule au générique d'un nom géologique demeure imprécise. Habituellement, les noms de divisions stratigraphiques portent la majuscule et les entités de moindre importance n'en portent pas.

OBS

Une même désignation peut se référer à une entité géographique et à une entité géologique, parfois avec une légère variante. Il importe de bien distinguer l'une de l'autre et d'utiliser la graphie correcte selon le contexte.

OBS

[...] la formation de Hawke bay, d'une épaisseur d'environ 300 pieds à la section type de la formation dans l'ouest de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Materials
DEF

A relatively thick, short section cut from a monofilament.

OBS

bristle: term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matières plastiques
DEF

Élément relativement court et épais d'un monofilament.

OBS

crin : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Materiales plásticos
DEF

Sección relativamente gruesa, corta, cortada de un monofilamento.

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Record 5 2010-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wrought Metal Items and Antique Tools
  • Metal Forging
DEF

... tool... made from a bar of soft iron forged with a raised portion at one or both ends. Most are about 6 or 8 inches long and perhaps 1-inch wide, with raised portions about 1-inch deep and the strip connecting them about 1/2-inch thick. The raised portions are pierced with a tapered square punch that starts at the bottom... and projects through its top where the cross section of the punch matches the size of the square nails to be headed.

CONT

For nailmaking, a heading tool with a square hole may have been made.... [The nail] is inserted in the heading tool, where it is twisted off at the cut.

CONT

heading plate : Thick steel plate with tapered holes to take rods on which thickened heads can be formed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Objets ouvrés et outils anciens (Métal)
  • Forgeage
DEF

Pièce métallique percée de trous dont se sert le forgeron pour faire les têtes des clous et des vis.

CONT

Les filières vont amenuiser les tiges [de métal] à la grosseur voulue et certaines serviront à l'artisan pour forger tous ces clous à tête écrasée qu'on retrouve dans nos plus vieilles charpentes ou dans les meubles anciens. Ces filières se présentent comme des barres de métal d'un pouce d'épaisseur, perforées de trous de différentes grosseurs, ronds ou carrés. Il s'agit de passer le fer chaud dans ces interstices, de tirer et couper. Puis on bat la tête.

CONT

Pour faire les têtes de boulons, de clous ou de vis, le forgeron se sert de la "cloüiere". La tige portée au rouge dont on a légèrement aplati une extrémité est enfilée dans un des trous de la "cloüiere". La partie renflée qui accroche au trou de la "cloüière" est forcée au marteau et prend la forme du trou.

CONT

Cloüiere, ou clouviere ou cloutière (le plus usité est cloüiere) [...] c'est une pièce de fer quarrée, à l'extrémité de laquelle on a pratiqué un ou plusieurs trous quarrés ou ronds dans lesquels on fait entrer la tige du clou de force; de sorte que la partie qui excède la cloüiere, se rabat et forme la tête du clou.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Objetos metálicos labrados y herramientas antiguas
  • Forjadura
DEF

Molde usado en artesanía para formar las cabezas de los clavos.

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Record 6 2008-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vulcanology and Seismology
OBS

The lower section consists of a thick pile of basaltic pillow lava and basaltic andesite breccias.... The Basalt lava is augite-phyric and contains amygdales of chlorite, zeolite, or quartz.

OBS

augite-phyric pillow lava: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volcanologie et sismologie
OBS

coulée en coussins à phénocristaux d'augite : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

OBS

coulées en coussins : Laves qui se mettent en place sur le fond océanique et se présentent comme des amoncellements en boules, variant de 10 cm à 1 m, parfois jusqu'à 10 m de diamètre.

OBS

lave en coussins : Lave qui a été émise par un volcan sous-marin [...] ou par un volcan émergé dont les coulées vont jusqu'en mer ou dans un lac. Sortant à une température de 1000 à 1200 degrés, elle se couvre d'une pellicule de verre qui, n'étant pas complètement refroidie, forme une sorte de baudruche souple, progressivement gonflée par la lave qui continue d'être émise. On aboutit ainsi à des empilements de boules en forme de coussins ou de polochons d'une taille de plusieurs mètres, sur de grandes épaisseurs.

Spanish

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Record 7 2007-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
DEF

A steak cut from the beef tenderloin, which is a long tapered muscle located near the spine between the rib section and the sirloin [and which] is a boneless cut one to two inches thick, very lean with little marbeling, quite tender in texture, and often very expensive.

OBS

In the United States, the Filet Mignon is usually cut from the large end of the tenderloin, between the center section (chateaubriand) and the butt end of the tenderloin. For French chefs, the Filet Mignon often refers to a steak cut from the small end of the tenderloin near the 13th rib.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
DEF

Pièce de boucherie détaillée à la pointe du filet.

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radioactive Ores (Mining)
DEF

A roll orebody of the Wyoming type, which is bounded on the concave side by oxidized altered rock typically containing hematite or limonite, and on the convex side by relatively reduced altered rock typically containing pyrite and organic matter.

CONT

roll-type uranium ore: C-shaped deposit, most commonly in sandstones, formed by advancing mineralizing fluids. Deposition takes place where groundwaters encounter reducing conditions ...

OBS

Sandstone-uranium-vanadium-base metal deposits. - These deposits are found in terrestrial sediments ... Uranium-rich examples are called Colorado Plateau-type, carnotite-type, sandstone-type, Wyoming roll-front-type ... In deposits of this type one or two metals are present in economic amounts, whilst the others may be present in minor or trace quantities.

OBS

Within carbonatites, deposits are often crescentic or rounded in form, reflecting the distribution of host intrusive phases. ... The deposits of this class are commonly groups of lenses or ore shoots of crescentic or annular form showing steep dips related to crystallization parallel to the walls of the intrusive complex, and are notable for great vertical continuity of the ore.

OBS

Orebodies of the Wyoming type are crescent-shaped in cross section and typically form in relatively thick, tabular, or elongate sandstone bodies, with the tips of the crescent thinning and becoming tangent to mudstone layers above and below.

PHR

Roll-front uranium deposit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais radioactifs (Mines métalliques)
CONT

Au Sud Texas, le gisement uranifère de Panna Maria, de type «roll», se serait formé selon ces processus biogéniques [...]

OBS

Sous-type rolls [...]. - Il est bien représenté au Wyoming. [...] Une des principales caractéristiques du sous-type est le caractère sécant de la minéralisation sur la roche-hôte, les gisements ayant une forme de croissant.

Spanish

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Record 9 2003-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Glass
CONT

Dr. Stookey [chemist] continued to find new uses for glass. Among them, the discovery of machinable glass, and polychromatic glass that produced full-color images when exposed to light and heat.

CONT

There are two layers of glass mounted in each wall section. The outer layer is thick glass onto which text and graphics have been etched. The inner layer of glass is specially manufactured polychromatic glass, also known as LCD glass due to the layer of liquid crystal diode film that is laminated between two sheets of standard glass. When a small amount of electrical current is applied to the LCD film, it changes instantly from opaque to transparent, a feature that has been used to great effect in a number of other installations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de verre

Spanish

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Record 10 1998-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

Opaque attritus consists of three common types of organic matter all of which are opaque to transmitted light in thin section : 1. Opaque matter consisting of fusain less than 30 microns thick. 2. Amorphous opaque matter... 3. Granular opaque matter...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie

Spanish

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Record 11 1992-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atomic Physics
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems
DEF

An effective cross section ascribed to a material inserted between a fission neutron source and a thick hydrogenous medium. It is used in the calculation of the relaxation length of the fast neutron flux density in a thick shield.

OBS

Term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique atomique
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
  • Propulsion des aéronefs
DEF

section efficace effective attribuée à un matériaux interposé entre une source de neutrons de fission et un milieu hydrogéné de grande épaisseur.

OBS

Terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 12 1990-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Concrete
CONT

Fiber- and Fabric-Reinforced Concrete. Historically fibers have been used to reinforce many different types of building materials. Some classic uses are straw in bricks, animal hair in plaster, and asbestos in cement. More recently, however, fiber-reinforced concrete has concentrated on steel, glass, and plastic fibers being placed in mortars and concretes to improve their material characteristics ....

OBS

In another case, rather than use separated discrete sized fibers for reinforcement, duPont has experimented with their nonwoven fabric Typar as a reinforcement material for concrete. Placing a sheet of fabric one-third of the distance up from the bottom of a 12 by 12 by 3/4 inch thick concrete tile, impact strengths were measured against control tiles. It was found that 5 foot-pounds were required to break the unreinforced section, while 20 foot-pounds were required for 2 once per square yard Typar-reinforced tiles....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de béton
OBS

Béton armé : Béton dans lequel est incorporée une armature en vue de constituer un matériau capable de résister à des efforts donnés.

Spanish

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Record 13 1977-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Cephalopods of the family ruedemannoceratidae have] conchs consisting of medium-to large-sized endogastric cyrtocones and near orthocones with unconstricted apertures bearing [a] shallow hyponomic sinus. [The] Siphuncle [is] located slightly adventrally from [the] center, with siphuncular bulbs in early stages, that in later stages change to broadly expanded segments with strongly recurved septal necks; [the] connecting rings [are] thick, with [a] vinculum, granular and conchiolinous zones, 2 amorphous bands and 2 layers of bullettes well differentiated; [the] bullette [is] uniform in thickness with [the] remainder of [the] ring. Sutures [are] either straight, tending to slope forward from venter to dorsum, or with faint sinuate lobes on [the] venter. In cross section, [the] venter [is] either broadly flattened or more broadly rounded than [the] dorsum "M. Ord".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les céphalopodes de la famille des ruedemannoceratidae ont un] siphon subcentral largement dilaté, [des] anneaux épaissis, [et des] dépôts caméraux massifs (...)

Spanish

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