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TURN CONSTRUCTION [9 records]

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Record 1 2021-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
CONT

Turn construction incorporates a delay in start of turn to account for pilot reaction time and roll-in time...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
CONT

La construction du virage comprend un délai initial combinant le temps de réaction du pilote et le temps de roulis de l'avion [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Minimum VI-CF construction, turn 30 degrees or less.

OBS

VI: heading to an intercept.

OBS

CF: course to a fix.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Construction VI-CF minimale, virage de 30 degrés ou moins.

OBS

VI : cap jusqu'à une interception.

OBS

CF : direction jusqu'à un repère.

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skydiving, Paragliding and Hang Gliding
DEF

Cords or webbing of silk, nylon, cotton, rayon, or other textile materials which connect the drap surface of the parachute [and paraglider] to the harness.

CONT

A paraglider is made up of the wing, rigging(lines), small carabiner, and risers.... Lines. Commonly known as lines(a set of rigging) measuring variously between 0. 4-1. 7 mm, even 2. 2 mm, their high level of strength or weight resistance depends on their thickness and the properties of material used in its construction. They are usually concerned with a protective sheath to guard against ground friction and are made from dyneema, kevlar, spectra, superaramid and so on. The lines attach the wing to risers which in turn are attached to the pilots harness, and extend from the wings downward side in the order specified by the particular manufacturer, gradually tapering off in thickness and number via a series of quick links. Finally they end up in tiny linkages(known as small carabiner) from the risers.

OBS

Terms usually used in plural.

OBS

Terms used for paragliding equipment.

Key term(s)
  • suspension lines
  • lines
  • rigging lines

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
DEF

[...] câbles qui relient le harnais d'un parachute [et parapente] à la voilure.

CONT

Les suspentes sont des câbles en nylon/kevlar qui relient la voile aux élévateurs. On distingue 4 types de suspentage que l'on appelle aussi des lignes de suspentage : Ligne A (avant), Ligne B (intermédiaire), Ligne C (arrière), Ligne de commande (commandes de frein).

OBS

La drisse est un terme qui nous vient des marins («Hissez la drisse de grand voile!»). C'est donc un cordage. En parapente, on appelle les drisses, les suspentes.

OBS

Termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

OBS

Termes qui s'appliquent à l'équipement du parapente.

Key term(s)
  • drisses
  • suspentes
  • lignes de suspentage

Spanish

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Record 4 2007-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Weapon Systems
OBS

Imperial Munitions Board, established November 1915 in Canada by the British Ministry of munitions, with Canadian government approval. Headed by J. W. Flavelle, a prominent Toronto businessman, the board was responsible for letting contracts on behalf of the British government for the construction of war materials in Canada. It began to establish "national factories, "which it owned outright, to produce munitions that private manufacturers were unable to turn out. Under IMB direction Canada produced a wide variety of war materiel including shells, ships, explosives and training planes. The IMB was dissolved in 1919.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Systèmes d'armes
OBS

La Commission impériale des munitions (CIM) est fondée en novembre 1915 au Canada par le ministère britannique des Munitions avec l'assentiment du gouvernement canadien. Sous la direction de J.W. Flavelle, un homme d'affaires influent de Toronto, la Commission a pour but d'accorder des contrats au nom du gouvernement britannique, pour la construction de matériel de guerre au Canada. Elle commence à mettre sur pied des «usines nationales» lui appartenant totalement et qui produisent des munitions que les fabricants privés ne sont pas en mesure de livrer. Sous la direction de la CIM, le Canada produit une vaste gamme de materiel de guerre, notamment des obus, des navires, des explosifs et des avions d'entraînement. La CIM est dissoute en 1919.

Spanish

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Record 5 2006-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collection Items (Museums and Heritage)
  • Rail Transport
CONT

The model represents the steel-plate type wagon turntable, 15ft.(4, 6m.) diameter. These were found in goods yards and industrial sites where space restrictions were such that conventional pointwork could not be accommodated. Their lightweight construction meant that locomotives were prohibited from traversing them. Consequently, they were often used in locations where shunting was performed by tractors, horses or where capstan haulage of wagons was employed. The table was turned by one of two methods : a bar inserted into a socket provided a means whereby the turntable could be rotated manually, or a powered capstan was employed to turn the wagon by means of a rope attached to one of a series of bollards around the rim of the turntable plate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Objets de collection (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
  • Transport par rail
OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot; plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme pivotante de chariot

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Continuous Handling
  • Underground Mining
  • Ore Extraction and Transport
DEF

The structure used in a mine shaft for the conveyance of men and materials.

CONT

The approximate weight of a steel cage is 1 1/2 times that of the coal it carries, or about equal to the weight of the coal and the mine cars. Cages are usually designed to take one or two cars per deck and may be single or multi-decked. Where multidecked cages are used, simultaneous or consecutive discharge of decks can be employed. The modern trend is towards consecutive decking with power-operated cage unloading equipment. Cages can be either steel, composite or all-alloy construction. An all-alloy cage is about half the weight of its all-steel equivalent. The cage is suspended from bridle chains which in turn are attached to the cappel of the winding rope. Normally there are two cages in simultaneous operation in the shaft and travelling in opposite directions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manutention continue
  • Exploitation minière souterraine
  • Extraction et transport du minerai
DEF

[...] carcasse métallique, de forme parallélépipédique, suspendue à un câble d'extraction dans un puits ou dans un bure, dans laquelle prennent place des berlines ou le personnel pour être remontés ou descendus à une recette par la machine d'extraction [...]

Spanish

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Record 7 1988-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Mechanical Components
DEF

Mechanism construction in which a shaft is free to turn in all parts in which it is inserted.

CONT

This axle is not supported by bearings at either end. As the three-quarter floating axle has only one bearing at the outer end, it still takes some binding stress. It, therefore, is not quite the full-floating type.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Composants mécaniques
OBS

"Full floating axle" : "Axe entièrement flottant".

Spanish

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Record 8 1986-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Psychology
CONT

Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless, and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of past experience.... It is thus hardly ever really exact, even the most rudimentary cases of rote recapitulation, and it is not at all important that it should be so. The attitude is literally an effect of the organism's capacity to turn round up upon its own "schemata" and is directly a function of consciousness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Psychologie
DEF

Le fait de se souvenir.

Spanish

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Record 9 1981-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
OBS

Are certain so-called "leading-indicator series", such as average hours worked per week, stock prices, construction awards, and new orders, predominantly signaling a turn now?

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques

Spanish

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