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Record 1 2019-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Remote Sensing
  • Telecommunications
DEF

A virtual geospatial boundary that enables software to trigger a response when a mobile device enters or exits a specific area.

CONT

A virtual perimeter for the real world ... For example, you can use a geofence to automatically turn off your lights when you leave for the day.

CONT

For example, a store could erect a simple geo-fence in an area surrounding its physical location. When users pass through, receiving a location-triggered alert or deal makes them considerably more likely to stop in and shop.

OBS

geofence: designation and definition officially approved by the Army Terminology Panel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
  • Télédétection
  • Télécommunications
DEF

Limite géospatiale virtuelle permettant à un logiciel de déclencher une réponse lorsqu'un dispositif mobile entre dans une zone donnée ou sort de celle-ci.

OBS

périmètre virtuel : désignation et définition uniformisées par le Groupe d'experts en terminologie de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organization Planning
  • Urban Planning
CONT

It is foreseeable that establishing a Goleta area planning commission may trigger demands for other area planning commissions, particularly in Montecito and Orcutt. While Goleta is the largest urban area, Montecito has its own zoning ordinance and a history of strong citizen interest in fine-grained land use and design regulation. Orcutt is on its way to being a large urban area with its own unique needs. Commissioners were concerned both about the efficiency and the balkanization of planning with multiple commissions.

CONT

The general idea was that statewide working groups would develop the overarching values and chart the general directions, and implementation would be left to the regions. While this approach is appropriate for a large state, we noted our concern early on about the relationship between the statewide working groups and the regional collaboratives. We feared a balkanization of planning and in our February 1999 feedback letter on your 1998 State Plan suggested that all statewide working groups and regional collaboratives adopt the goals of an effective statewide system to assure consistency of principle and purpose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification d'organisation
  • Aménagement urbain
CONT

[L'équilibre] est donc difficile à tenir entre une conception purement nationale nivelant les problèmes locaux et une conception trop déconcentrée aboutissant à une balkanisation de la planification.

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
DEF

A circumscribed area of the body where stimulation will produce a specific sensation, such as pain.

CONT

When the pain is chronic or severe, particularly when a trigger area is found, local anesthesia with ethyl chloride spray or local injection of 0. 5 per cent lidocaine or physiologic saline sometimes affords relief.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
CONT

Parfois spontanée, la névralgie est très souvent provoquée par la stimulation d'une région cutanée ou muqueuse précise (zone gâchette).

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meteorological Forecasting, Data Measurement and Analysis
CONT

WeatherAlert is an Environment Canada weather message about impending severe weather that scrolls--or crawls--across the bottom of the television screen. Only severe weather events that are not forecast early enough for announcement on regular television broadcasts will trigger WeatherAlert messages. Test messages for WeatherAlert will be issued in the greater Toronto pilot area for these severe weather events : tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, severe winds, blizzards, heavy freezing rain, heavy snow, heavy rain and snow squalls. The Toronto area was chosen for the pilot because of its size, variety of severe weather, population and its concentration of national broadcasters.

Key term(s)
  • Weather-Alert message

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions météorologiques et mesure et analyse des données
CONT

Alerte Météo est un message météorologique d'Environnement Canada qui annonce l'imminence d'un phénomène météorologique violent. Le message défile au bas de l'écran de télévision. Seuls les phénomènes météorologiques violents qui n'ont pas été prévus suffisamment tôt pour pouvoir être annoncés dans les émissions télévisées habituelles déclencheront des messages Alerte Météo. Des messages d'essai Alerte Météo seront diffusés dans la région-pilote du Grand Toronto pour les phénomènes météorologiques violents suivants : tornades, orages violents, vents violents, blizzards, pluie verglaçante abondante, chutes de neige abondantes, pluies abondantes et bourrasques de neige. La région torontoise a été choisie pour le projet-pilote du fait de sa taille, de la variété des conditions météorologiques, de sa population et du nombre de radiodiffuseurs nationaux.

Spanish

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Record 5 1992-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
DEF

Small, shallow depression which forms mainly in winter over some high-latitude seas within a polar or arctic air mass.

CONT

When arctic-origin air in winter flows southward(northward in the southern hemisphere) across(relatively) warmer seas, strong surface heating acts both to enhance the degree of instability, and trigger vigorous moist convective towers. This is sufficient alone to give rise to heavy, wintry showers/cumulonimbus clusters etc., but often marked troughing, or even a closed circulation in the isobaric flow is found; the resultant low-level convergence/positive vorticity enhancement, plus the localised concentration of the latent heat energy released, enhances development within the system, and an intense(but synoptically small) area of rain, hail, sleet or snow & squally winds can result-a polar low(or polar depression or polar meso-cyclone in some texts).

CONT

What is a polar low? Part of a diverse group of mesoscale weather systems (polar meso-cyclones). ... [There is] three types of polar meso-cyclones: -jet streak type, -arctic front type, -cold low type.

OBS

Polar mesocyclones: a term now used to encompass the whole ’family’ of disturbances resulting from arctic air flowing equatorward over progressively warmer seas; the term ’polar low’ is now often used only for ’extreme’ systems where gale or near gale-force winds are observed.

OBS

Its motion is approximately the same as the air stream in which it is embedded.

Key term(s)
  • polar meso cyclone

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
DEF

Petite dépression peu profonde qui se forme principalement en hiver dans une masse d'air polaire ou arctique située sur certaines mers des hautes latitudes.

OBS

Son mouvement est approximativement le même que celui du courant atmosphérique dans lequel elle se situe.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fenómenos meteorológicos, climáticos y atmosféricos
DEF

Depresión pequeña y poco profunda que se forma dentro de una masa de aire polar o ártico, especialmente en invierno, sobre los mares polares.

OBS

Se mueve siguiendo, aproximadamente, la dirección de la corriente de aire en que está inserta.

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Record 6 1991-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
DEF

Ledge in the grip area of a rifle or handgun on which to rest the thumb of the trigger hand.

OBS

Term and definition officialized by the Small Arms Terminology Working Group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
DEF

Excroissance sur la poignée d'une carabine ou d'une arme de poing, sur laquelle on appuie le pouce de la main de tir.

OBS

Terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères.

Spanish

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