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WELL WALL [45 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2024-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Tools
  • Concrete Facilities and Equipment
  • Masonry Practice
CONT

... a wide range of premium quality diamond blades for wall sawing [are available]. Typical applications include sawing large openings in soft, medium and hard reinforced concrete walls, as well as sawing in walls built with bricks or concrete blocks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outils (Construction)
  • Outillage et installations (Bétonnage)
  • Maçonnerie

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Petroleum Technology - Maintenance
CONT

[A] casing scraper [is] used to scrape the cement film off a well wall so that a packer can be inserted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Entretien (Technologie pétrolière)
DEF

Aléseur permettant de gratter la paroi d'un puits et d'éliminer la pellicule de ciment qui pourrait gêner la pose [d'une garniture d'étanchéité].

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Oil Production
DEF

An expanding plug used in a well to seal off certain sections of the tubing or casing when cementing, acidizing, or when a production formation is to be isolated.

CONT

Packers are run through the tubing or casing, and when in position can be expanded mechanically or hydraulically against the pipe wall or the wall of the well bore.

CONT

Packers are classified according to their configuration, use, and method of setting and whether they are retrievable or permanent ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Production pétrolière
DEF

Dispositif expansible servant à obturer un trou de forage ou à isoler un espace annulaire et qui permet une production, une injection ou un traitement contrôlés.

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
CONT

An armoured collar known as the "avant-cuirasse"(or "forward armour") surrounded the turret to prevent enemy artillery rounds from penetrating the ground adjacent to the turret and reaching the wall of the turret well.

CONT

When closed hatches are jammed so that they cannot be pried open, rotate the gun approximately [90°] left and pull [the] casualty into the turret well. The opening between the driver’s compartment and the turret well of the 76-mm gun motor carriage is so small that this method [of casualty retrieval] is used only as an emergency expedient.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
CONT

Surmonté par une avant-cuirasse circulaire en forme de gencive, le puits de tourelle en béton armé abritait en son centre la partie mobile du cuirassement.

Spanish

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Record 5 2021-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Beekeeping
CONT

Honey bees have a defined flight path when they leave the entrance of their hive. We can manipulate this path by facing the entrance toward a wall, fence or hedge which will force the bees to fly up and out-adjusting their trajectory well above human height.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
  • Élevage des abeilles
DEF

Trajectoire suivie par les abeilles en vol, notamment à proximité de la ruche.

Spanish

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Record 6 2019-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Interior Decorations
  • Chimneys (Building Elements)
CONT

Both wall hangings-and the depicted scenes-and other tapestries(hassocks, chair upholstery, table cloths, bed panelling, mantlepiece runners) are mentioned as well as the rooms in which they were placed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décoration intérieure
  • Cheminées (Éléments du bâtiment)

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
  • Collaborative and Social Communications
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

A statistic that quantifies a specific aspect of the online social reach, performance or return on investment of a business, entity, organization, person, group, etc. within a ... widget or any social media [platform].

CONT

The first – and easiest – social media metric to measure is volume... Volume is a great initial indicator of interest. People tend to talk about things they either love or hate... While volume can seem like a simple counting metric, there's more to it than just counting tweets [or] wall posts. It's important to measure the number of messages about your brand, as well as the number of people talking about your brand, and track how both of those numbers change over time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
  • Communications collaboratives et sociales
  • Internet et télématique

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Geological Research and Exploration
DEF

... a procedure adopted in special circumstances when the circulating fluid is pumped down the annular space between the well wall and the drill pipe and is returned through the drill string.

OBS

For special problems, normal circulation is sometimes reversed, and the fluid returns to the surface through the drill stem, or tubing, after being pumped down the annulus.

OBS

In reverse circulation methods, the fluid is introduced at the annulus and returns inside the drill string.

OBS

As opposed to "normal circulation."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
DEF

[Circulation du fluide de forage] de l'annulaire vers le tube de production.

CONT

«Circulation inverse» [...] on peut, en renversant le sens de circulation, c'est-à-dire en injectant la boue dans l'espace annulaire du forage éventuellement obturé à sa partie supérieure par un presse-étoupe laissant passer les tiges, profiter de la vitesse ascensionnelle de la boue dans les tiges pour remonter au jour les morceaux de carottes au fur et à mesure de leur extraction.

Spanish

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Record 9 2014-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
CONT

An educational program is not necessarily limited to classroom lectures but may also include use of an eye lane — in which a pilot stands at one side of a dark room and looks through NVGs at an eye chart on the opposite wall to learn to focus the goggles; a terrain board — a miniature layout of the type of terrain where the pilot will operate; or a simulator, as well as computer-based or Web-based training.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)

Spanish

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Record 10 2013-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
  • Structural Framework
DEF

A tie beam in a roof truss connecting the rafters well above the wall plate.

Key term(s)
  • span piece

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
  • Charpentes
DEF

Entrait placé au-dessus de l'entrait principal et délimitant un espace habitable. (Dans les éléments intermédiaires d'une charpente à fermette, l'entrait inférieur est supprimé.)

DEF

[...] entrait dont l'emplacement a été placé plus haut que le pied des arbalétriers pour dégager l'espace du comble; de même que l'entrait qu'il remplace, il a pour fonction d'empêcher l'écartement des arbalétriers; son assemblage avec ceux-ci est donc conçu pour travailler à la traction : de ce fait l'entrait retroussé est souvent en moise.

OBS

Ne pas confondre l'entrait retroussé avec le faux-entrait, qui est un petit entrait travaillant à la compression [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Techos (Elementos de edificios)
  • Estructuras (Construcción)
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Record 11 2012-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Walls and Partitions
  • Thermal Insulation
DEF

A wall of offset 2x4s (interior then exterior) with a thick cavity filled with cellulose insulation.

OBS

This wall system uses less wood than conventional framing and when filled with cellulose is non-toxic, has low air-infiltration, is resistant to insects and rodents, can be very well insulated(12 inches or more) with no thermal bridging.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Murs et cloisons
  • Isolation thermique
CONT

Le mur double ossature : il est constitué de deux murs de 2"x 4" espacés au 24", et isolés à la cellulose. De plus, la largeur entre les deux rangées de colombagesn’est pas fixe comme dans le cas d’un mur en 2" x 6" ce qui permet de faire varier l’épaisseur de l’isolant en vrac et donc le facteur R du mur. Ce système réduit lesrisques d’infiltration d’air et les ponts thermiques.

Key term(s)
  • mur à ossature double

Spanish

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Record 12 2012-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Practice
  • Walls and Partitions
CONT

... Clay Wall Coping protects the mortar and top masonry material as well as the inside wall by keeping water from penetrating the top and running down the inside structure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maçonnerie
  • Murs et cloisons

Spanish

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Record 13 2012-04-05

English

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

A shell-shaped or concave recess of reflecting material should be built behind the performers to act as a mirror to throw out the sound on a more or less plane wave-front... If this reflector consists of wood sheathing against the wall, it is well to leave a space by supporting the wood on studs away from the wall.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale
DEF

Type de matériau qui comme une plaque métallique réfléchit les ondes sonores plutôt que de les absorber comme, par exemple, la laine minérale.

Spanish

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Record 14 2012-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports Facilities and Venues
  • Diving
DEF

A stationary rigid diving surface covered with a nonslip material attached permanently to the wall of a diving pool and extending well over the body of water, from which divers leap for dives performed ten(10) metres from the surface of the water.

OBS

Usually, a diving tower will also have 5- and 7.5-meter platforms.

OBS

The term "platform" usually refers to the 10-meter stationary diving platform; for swimming events, the term refers to the table of the starting block. Do not confuse them. The "tower" is the structure on which platforms are attached; the term is also used to mean the 10-meter platform.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et sites (Sports)
  • Plongeon
CONT

La tour est une installation en vue des plongeons de haut vol; elle comprend un socle auquel sont attachées une plate-forme supérieure à 10 mètres du plan d'eau, des plates-formes intermédiaires à 7,5 et 5 mètres, et parfois, une plate-forme inférieure à 3 mètres du plan d'eau.

CONT

Plongeoir : Bassin aménagé pour les plongeons, dont les limites et profondeurs d'eau varient selon le réglage des tremplins [...] On distingue : le tremplin à planche souple [...]; la plate-forme de haut vol, rigide, (6 m x 1,50 ou 2 m) fixée à 5 ou 7,50 ou 10 m au-dessus de l'eau et dépassant de 1,50 m le bord du bassin, à laquelle on accède par un escalier.

OBS

La «tour» est la structure à laquelle les plates-formes sont fixées; dans l'usage, le terme sert également à désigner le tremplin de 10 mètres. Un «plongeoir» est un bassin de plongeon; le terme ne doit pas servir à désigner un tremplin ou une plate-forme.

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

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).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instalaciones y sedes deportivas
  • Salto (Deportes acuáticos y náuticos)
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Record 15 2011-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Geothermal Energy
CONT

Rotary speeds are of the order of 90 to 100 rev/min and penetration rates range from 23 to 40 ft/h (the lower limit applying to the larger diameter surface casing holes, and the upper limit to the deep small diameter holes in the production zone).

OBS

casing : Steel pipe placed in an oil or gas well to prevent the wall of the hole from caving in, to prevent movement of fluids from one formation to another, and to improve the efficiency of extracting petroleum if the well is productive.

PHR

surface casing hole

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Énergie géothermique
CONT

Les vitesses de rotation sont de l'ordre de 90 à 100 tours par minute et les vitesses d'avancement varient de 7 à 12 m/h (la limite inférieure s'appliquant aux trous de tubage superficiels à diamètre plus large, et la limite supérieure aux trous profonds à petit diamètre dans la zone de production).

OBS

tubage : Éléments tubulaires dont on revêt la paroi interne d'un trou de forage pour la maintenir. Le tubage est fixé par cimentation.

PHR

trou de tubage superficiel

Spanish

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Record 16 2011-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scaffolding
DEF

A scaffold which stands free of the wall, is supported on two rows of standards, and built of baulks or steel sections, well braced. Mason's scaffolds cannot(like bricklayer's scaffolds) be partly supported on the wall because the putlog holes would disfigure the stonework.

CONT

When it is not possible to build in the ends of putlogs, ... independent or mason’s scaffolding is used. This incorporates another line of standards and ledgers which is erected near the wall. ... Both putlog and independent scaffolds ... must have a guard rail on each working platform.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Échafaudage
OBS

un échafaudage de pied est composé d'échasses ou montants, pièces verticales, réunis par des longrines sur lesquelles prennent appui les boulins supportant le plancher protégé par un garde-corps et une plinthe.

OBS

un échafaudage de pied ou échafaudage vertical peut comporter une seule rangée d'échasses ou écoperches (on parle alors en anglais de "putlog or bricklayer's scaffold") ou en comporter deux rangées, la deuxième placée à proximité du mur (et on parle alors, en anglais, de "independent or mason's scaffold").

Spanish

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Record 17 2011-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

The space between the wall of the hole and the well casing or between the casing and the drill pipe.

CONT

The space around a pipe suspended in a wellbore is often termed the annulus, and its outer wall may be either the wall of the borehole or the casing.

CONT

After the landing flange has engaged bottom with the conductor pipe attached and extending into the borehole, cement is supplied to the annular space between the conductor pipe and the borehole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Espace compris entre la paroi intérieure du puits de forage ou du tubage et la paroi extérieure du train de sonde.

CONT

Pendant le forage, de la boue spécialement préparée [...] est envoyée sous pression à travers le train de tiges jusqu'à un orifice dans le trépan et refoulée à la surface dans l'espace annulaire entre le train de tiges et la paroi du trou. Cet espace existe car le diamètre du trépan est toujours supérieur à celui des tiges.

CONT

La remontée de la boue de forage se fait par l'annulaire.

Spanish

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Record 18 2009-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Geology
DEF

A concrete wall around well for sanitary protection.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Géologie

Spanish

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Record 19 2008-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chimneys (Building Elements)
CONT

The assembly of claim 1 wherein the firebox of the fireplace unit has an interior volume of a first shape, and the fireplace unit further includes a surround contained in the firebox and shaped to define a second volume that has a second shape different from the first shape. ... The assembly of claim 2 wherein the firebox of the fireplace unit is defined by a plurality of interconnected walls, and the fireplace unit further includes a firebox surround in the firebox and spaced apart from the interconnected walls.

CONT

A direct vent fireplace installation assembly is provided that includes a furniture unit having an enlarged receptacle well above the ground, and a direct vent fireplace unit positioned in the receptacle of the furniture unit. The fireplace unit ahs a firebox contained in an outer housing, a burner assembly in the firebox, and a contoured surround, surrounding the burner positioned in and spaced apart from walls of the firebox. A chimney is coupled to the firebox. In one embodiement, the fireplace unit is mounted in a receptacle in a wall structure positioned above the floor, at approximately eye level. There may be a heat exchange passageway between the outer housing and the firebox, and a blower for circulating air therethrough.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cheminées (Éléments du bâtiment)
OBS

enceinte pour âtre de cheminée : terme proposé (sous toutes réserves) par inférence à partir de la justification complémentaire reproduite ci-après.

OBS

Une enceinte 31 encastrée dans l'âtre de la cheminée.

Spanish

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Record 20 2008-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Walls and Partitions
  • Prefabrication
CONT

Prefabricated wall panels, roof assemblies, and stairs, as well as prehung doors and windows can be installed very quickly. Instead of having to be built on the worksite, prefabricated walls, partitions, and stairs can be lifted into place in one operation; beams and, in some cases, entire roof assemblies, are lifted into place using a crane.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Murs et cloisons
  • Préfabrication
CONT

Il existe quatre types de panneaux muraux préfabriqués à ossature de bois dans le marché résidentiel, soit le panneau ouvert, le panneau semi-ouvert, le panneau fermé et le panneau isolant structural (SIP).

Spanish

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Record 21 2008-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics (Physics)
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
  • Aircraft Systems
DEF

The force per unit area that is exerted on a surface(as that exerted against the inner wall of a container or piping system by a fluid or that exerted on a wellhead by a column of gas in the well).

CONT

The most popular pressure indicating instruments (gauges) register in pounds per square inch above the atmospheric pressure (psig) or (psi).

CONT

The term pressure is applied particularly to stresses exerted uniformly in all directions, as distinguished from unidirectional compressive stresses.

OBS

In the United States, pressure is usually expressed in pounds per square inch (psi).

OBS

pressure: term standardized by ISO.

PHR

Development of pressure.

PHR

Longitudinal pressure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique des fluides et hydraulique (Physique)
  • Mécanique des sols
  • Circuits des aéronefs
DEF

Force par unité de surface.

CONT

[...] la pression étant une grandeur repérable, on la définit comme étant une force exercée sur l'unité de surface. [...] L'unité de pression (SI) est le pascal (Pa); c'est la «pression uniforme qui, agissant sur une surface plane de 1 mètre carré, exerce perpendiculairement à cette surface une force totale de 1 newton». [...] on utilise généralement dans l'industrie son multiple qui est le bar.

OBS

pression : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

OBS

pression : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

PHR

Évolution de la pression.

PHR

Pression longitudinale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mecánica de fluidos e hidráulica (Física)
  • Mecánica del suelo
  • Circuitos de las aeronaves
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Record 22 2006-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Events
  • Finance
OBS

The Société de Relations d’Affaires HEC Montréal(SRA) is proud to invite you to HEC Montreal Undergraduate Stock Exchange simulation 2006. This year is the ninth edition of the event and we are continuously aiming to recreate the atmosphere and environment of Wall Street's old fashioned trading floor involving shouted negotiation(stocks and options). This year, our principal objective is the magnification of the activity through the welcoming of students from many more universities across Canada and the United States, as well as allowing a large audience to attend to the event and increasing our sponsors’ implication. Therefore, we are expecting more than 400 participants to register that will have the opportunity to experiment the broker profession and that will, this year, have the chance to face expert teams throughout the event.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de manifestations et d'activités diverses
  • Finances
OBS

La Société de Relations d'Affaires (SRA) est fière de vous inviter à la Simulation Boursière Inter-Universitaire 2006 (SBIU). Nous en sommes à la neuvième édition de l'activité cette année et visons toujours à recréer l'ambiance et l'environnement d'un parquet à la criée comme à la belle époque de Wall Street où les étudiants y échangent des titres virtuels (actions et options). Notre objectif principal cette année est de donner à l'activité une envergure jamais vue. Ainsi, nous comptons recevoir des étudiants d'un plus grand nombre d'universités du Canada et des États-Unis, tout en présentant l'événement devant public et en impliquant de plus près nos commanditaires. Nous attendons donc 400 étudiants en finance principalement qui s'initieront à la profession de courtier et qui, cette année, auront la chance de se mesurer à des professionnels tout en vivant l'atmosphère d'une grande place financière.

Spanish

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Record 23 2005-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Erosion and Weathering (Geol.)
  • Geochemistry
DEF

Introduction of, or replacement by, tourmaline.

CONT

Tourmalinisation. When boron-rich volatiles react with pre-existing minerals, various different types of tourmaline are formed. Because tourmaline can have a wide range of cations in its structure, progressive tourmalinisation may take place, affecting almost the entire rock.

CONT

Tourmalinization... is associated with medium, to high temperature deposits, e. g. many tin and some gold veins have a strong development of tourmaline in the wall rocks and often actually in the veins as well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Érosion et corrosion (Géologie)
  • Géochimie
CONT

La tourmalinisation est la formation d'une roche à quartz et tourmaline, ce dernier silicate se développant aux dépens des micas et des feldspaths primitifs, en prismes isolés ou en aiguilles rayonnantes [...]

Spanish

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Record 24 2004-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

Sclerites are calcareous bodies of diverse shape and form. They are highly modified paedomorphic structures, comparable in the adult holothurian to the larval spicules of its presumably fully plated ancestors. Nevertheless, they are of functional as well as phyletic importance. Some sclerites serve to reinforce the body wall, preventing its collapse,... Curved rods surround the podia, overlapping to construct a flexible but semirigid appendage, and a sieve plate at the end of each tube foot supports its suction disk.... A holothurian may have a single kind of sclerite or none, but an association of several types is usual.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[Un] tissu conjonctif sous-cuticulaire [...] [de la paroi du corps d'un Holothuride] contient le squelette resté à l'état embryonnaire sous forme de plaques éparses, les sclérites, lesquels présentent une variété de formes extraordinaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Paleontología
DEF

Corpúsculo calcáreo dérmico, de forma variable, que constituye el esqueleto de las holoturias y es lo único que se suele conservar fósil de estos esquinodermos.

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Record 25 2004-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
DEF

An aldohexose sugar that is a constituent of the disaccharide lactose found in milk, as well as occurring in glycolipids, glycoproteins and plant cell wall components.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
DEF

Aldohexose, de formule CH2OH-(CHOH)4-CHO, épimère du glucose.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bioquímica
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Record 26 2003-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Geological Research and Exploration
DEF

Conical-shaped cloth device used in cementing a drill column through perforations and preventing the cement from falling any lower.

CONT

... a cement basket is a funnel shaped rubber bucket which is provided with spring type fingers to hold the upper rim against the well wall. A basket is run on a string of casing... when it is desirable, for reasons such as protecting a formation from contamination, to cement the casing only above the point at which the basket is set.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
DEF

Écran conique en toile employé dans la cimentation d'une colonne de forage à travers les perforations, et empêchant le ciment de descendre au-dessous de son point de sortie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
  • Investigaciones y prospecciones geológicas
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Record 27 2003-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Sites
  • Regulations (Urban Studies)
  • Architectural Design
CONT

The breach in the Leonin Wall that appeared during this work constitutes a danger to the integrity of this fortified ensemble. Moreover, because of its co-visibility with the dome of Saint-Pierre, the height of the planned building would cause irreparable damage to the urban landscape of Rome, as well as to the Vatican City.

Key term(s)
  • covisibility

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sites (Urbanisme)
  • Réglementation (Urbanisme)
  • Conception architecturale
DEF

Pour un immeuble ou un monument classé, fait d'être vu en même temps qu'un site ou une construction susceptible d'altérer la qualité esthétique de la vue qu'on peut avoir sur lui.

CONT

Les monuments sont indissociables de l'espace qui les entoure : toute modification sur celui-ci rejaillit sur la perception de ceux-là. Aussi la loi impose-t-elle un droit de regard sur toute intervention envisagée à l'intérieur d'un périmètre de protection de 500 mètres de rayon autour des monuments historiques. [...] Protéger la relation entre un édifice et son environnement consiste, selon les cas, à veiller à la qualité des interventions (façades, toitures, matériaux), à prendre soin du traitement des sols, du mobilier urbain et de l'éclairage, voire à prohiber toute construction nouvelle aux abords du monument. [...] La notion de covisibilité avec le monument est ici déterminante; il s'agit donc pour l'ABF [Architectes des bâtiments de France] de déterminer si le projet et le monument sont visibles ensemble d'un point quelconque, ou l'un depuis l'autre. S'il y a covisibilité, l'ABF dispose d'un avis conforme. Dans le cas contraire, cet avis est simple.

Spanish

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Record 28 2002-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Underground Mining
CONT

The objective was to observe and subsequently to reduce ore dilution by monitoring the performance of blasts, the hanging wall movement, as well as the open stopes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation minière souterraine
CONT

Détection des mouvements des parois des excavations souterraines par imagerie numérique.

OBS

Source : bulletin R&D p. 14.13a et 14.14f.

Spanish

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Record 29 2001-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plumbing
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

A method of severing steel pipe in a well by applying high-pressure jets of very corrosive substance against the wall of the pipe.

OBS

The resulting cut is very smooth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plomberie
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

[Coupe] des tubes dans un puits par des jets de solution corrosive.

Spanish

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Record 30 2000-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Drilling and Boring (Construction)
DEF

A tool employed in drilling and used for smoothing the wall of a well, enlarging the hole to the desired size, stabilizing the bit, straightening the wellbore where kinks or doglegs are encountered, and drilling directionally.

CONT

The outside surface of the reaming shell is provided with inset diamonds or other cutting media set to a diameter to cut a specific clearance for the core barrel.

CONT

Reaming shells maintain the desired diameter of the [bore] hole. These make it unnecessary to ream with new bits to the bottom, reduce wear on the core barrel, and prevent sticking of bits due to loss of gauge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Sondage et forage (Construction)
DEF

Outil muni de lames ou de rouleaux qu'on utilise généralement pour régulariser et calibrer les parois d'un puits avant le tubage.

CONT

Construits avec des lames ou avec des molettes, les aléseurs [...] sont destinés à calibrer le trou [de forage] [...]

Spanish

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Record 31 2000-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

... A tool that is designed to measure the amount of stretch in a string of stuck pipe and to indicate the deepest point at which the pipe is free.

CONT

The free-point indicator is lowered into the well on a conducting cable. Each end of a strain-gauge element is anchored to the pipe wall by friction springs or magnets, and, as strain is put on the pipe, a very accurate measurement of its stretch is transmitted to the surface. By interpreting the stretch measurements, the depth at which the pipe is stuck is determined.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Appareil permettant de déterminer l'endroit où les tiges de forage sont coincées.

Spanish

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Record 32 1998-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
CONT

Nitrifying Bacteria : These bacteria are chemolitotrophic Gram(-) rods up to 2 microns on length. This is important because most of your pathogenic bacteria are Gram(-). The chemical treatments used to help eliminate harmful bacteria designed to compromise the Gram(-) bacteria's cell wall structure eliminate the nitrifying bacteria as well, since there is no way for it to tell the difference in the harmful bacteria and the nitrifying bacteria.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
CONT

Un organisme chimiolitotrophe utilise le gaz carbonique comme seule source de carbone en tirant son énergie de l'oxydation d'un substrat non organique.

Spanish

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Record 33 1998-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Materials
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The adherence of casing to cement and cement to formation; when casing is run in a well, it is set, or bonded, to the formation wall by means of cement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de construction
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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Record 34 1993-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Thermal Insulation
  • Pipes and Fittings
CONT

Flex rubber insulation is a tough, flexible rubber material. It has good insulating qualities, good cementing qualities, excellent weather-aging qualities, and prevents sweating of cold-water lines. It is also water and fire resistant. Flexible rubber insulation is well suited for covering tubing used in refrigeration and cold-water lines. It comes in a variety of lengths with a wall thickness of 3/8 to 3/4 inch and fits pipe up to 4 inches in diameter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation thermique
  • Tuyauterie et raccords
OBS

Le caoutchouc souple est un matériau résistant, qui possède de bonnes propriétés d'isolation ainsi qu'une excellente tenue aux intempéries; de plus, il se colle bien, il empêche la formation d'eau de condensation sur les canalisations d'eau froide, il est hydrofuge et ignifuge. Ce type de calorifuge convient bien au revêtement des canalisations utilisées dans les réseaux de réfrigération/refroidissement et de distribution d'eau froide. Il est fabriqué en diverses longueurs, il a une épaisseur de paroi allant de 3/8 à 3/4 pouce, et il convient à des tuyaux d'au plus 4 pouces de diamètre.

Spanish

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Record 35 1992-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
DEF

Descent of a precipitous cliff by means of a double rope passed under one thigh, diagonally across the body and over the opposite shoulder.

CONT

There are two things to remember when rappelling. One is to keep the legs well spread in the "sitting" position. This will prevent the body from pirouetting and "slamming" into the wall. The other is to remember that equipment will become hot while descending....

OBS

"Abseil" comes from German; "ab" meaning down and the verb "seilen" meaning to rope.

OBS

A distinction must be made between rappelling, the verb or action, and rappelling, the technique. Here we are describing the technique.

OBS

The synonyms, context, and above observations were taken from Kudlas, John, "The Rock Climbing Teaching Guide", 1979, p. 50, and Seghers, Conroll II, "The Peak Experience; Hiking and Climbing for Women", 1979, p. 218.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
DEF

Technique permettant de descendre une paroi verticale ou surplombante sur une corde mise en double, fixée en son milieu à un piton, un anneau de corde ou une saillie du rocher.

CONT

L'emplacement du rappel sera à l'abri des chutes de pierres et le plus confortable possible, l'amarrage étant placé de préférence assez haut pour que l'on puisse prendre le rappel en étant debout.

OBS

Le contexte ci-dessus est tiré de "L'escalade, connaissance et technique", par David Belten, 1987, pae 172.

Spanish

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Record 36 1990-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Semiconductors (Electronics)
CONT

A preliminary theory is developed for the static losses in ferromagnetic materials due to independent Barkhausen jumps. A linear relation between the area swept by the wall and the corresponding duration of the jump is obtained both on the basis of considerations of the pressure acting on the wall and by direct calculation of the energy loss.(...) As is well known, the static losses in ferromagnetic materials are mainly due to discontinuous movements of Bloch walls.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Semi-conducteurs (Électronique)
DEF

Perte de puissance électrique qui se produit lors de la conduction d'une jonction semiconducteur (diode, transistor, etc.).

CONT

Les pertes statiques (ou pertes de conduction) par contre, sont égales à 1,4 V/tension redressée. Pour les faibles tensions, elles sont donc très importantes et on comprend la déception des industriels devant se résigner à perdre plusieurs pourcents de leur puissance disponible dans des composants aussi simples que les diodes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Semiconductores (Electrónica)
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Record 37 1988-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings
CONT

Floor/wall scraper. Works equally well for all kinds of stripping on floors and walls, including wallpaper. Features a full 10 cm angled replaceable blade and soft comfortable grip.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol
CONT

Grattoir de plancher/mur. Convient aussi bien pour le grattage des murs et des planchers et l'enlèvement de papier peint. Appareil muni d'une lame remplaçable biseautée de 10 cm de largeur et poignée confortable.

Spanish

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Record 38 1987-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Walls and Partitions
  • Prefabrication
CONT

Modular units include complete window walls, kitchen units complete with installations, as well as masonry, wall panels, and most of the other components of a house.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Murs et cloisons
  • Préfabrication
OBS

Le système [de préfabrication] consiste à découper la façade en éléments correspondant (...) à une pièce d'habitation (...) à l'intérieur desquels la fenêtre est (...) intégrée.

Spanish

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Record 39 1986-05-23

English

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

A shell-shaped or concave recess of reflecting material should be build behind the performers to act as a mirror to throw out the sound on a more or less plane wave-front... If this reflector consists of wood sheathing against the wall, it is well to leave a space by supporting the wood on studs away from the wall. The system then acts like the sounding-board of a pianoforte, being set into forced vibration....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale
DEF

Forme semi-circulaire d'une abside (...)

CONT

Pour assurer une bonne audition on utilisera des grands réflecteurs de sons pour diriger ceux-ci vers l'auditoire. On pourra (...) utiliser des «conques» (...) Toutefois, il existe un grave inconvénient aux conques, relativement à l'orchestre ou aux exécutants; ceux-ci (...) ne s'entendent pas, les rayons sonores étant pour la plupart réfléchis vers l'auditoire.

Spanish

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Record 40 1986-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Prefabrication
CONT

Modular units include complete window walls, kitchen units complete with installations, as well as masonry, wall panels, and most of the other components of a house.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préfabrication
DEF

éléments préfabriqués permettant l'installation rapide d'une cuisine.

OBS

PL. des blocs-cuisines.

Spanish

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Record 41 1986-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
DEF

A simpleton. An early robot-building contest that involved running a maze was won by a mechanism that sensed and followed the right-hand wall. It was called Harvey Wallbanger. Robots that tried to learn as they travelled the maze did not do as well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique

Spanish

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Record 42 1985-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport
CONT

Leading Edge Flap and Slat System. At the forward wall of the right wheel well the input rod from the flap system follow-up drum to the leading edge flap and slat control valve was attached to both devices and bent.

PHR

Flap drive follow-up drum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien
OBS

tambour asservi : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de le terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 43 1985-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Paper
  • Construction Finishing
  • Wallpapering and Painting
OBS

also available is pre-pasted in washable vinyl for every room, as well as velvet finish wall paper which goes up as easily as ordinary pre-pasted.//--a finish suggesting the feel of velvet. It has a dull surface [APAPE 65]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de papier
  • Finitions (Construction)
  • Papiers peints et peintures (application)
OBS

les divers papiers peints fabriqués actuellement comprennent (...) les papiers veloutés 1) -- flockés à la main, (...) 2) --flockés à la machine

Spanish

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Record 44 1979-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Zoology
CONT

Electrolocating fish can be exquisitely sensitive in detecting objects, and preliminary experimements suggest that they are better than nonelectric fish in escaping through holes in a transparent wall dividing an aquarium. More of this kind of study is required to demonstrate that electrolocation really is useful, for many fish do very well indeed with the ordinary mechanoreceptors of the lateral line system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zoologie
DEF

Localisation d'un objet par émission de signaux électriques.

CONT

Outre les Torpilles qui possèdent en effet des organes électrogènes (muscles modifiés) capables d'électrocuter leurs proies [...], les Raies possèdent des organes identiques, mais plus faibles, [...] créant autour d'elles un champ électrique qu'obstacles, proies ou prédateurs viennent modifier : c'est de l'électrolocation.

Spanish

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Record 45 1977-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

[Bivalves of the Family Desertellidae have a shell that is] medium-sized, equivalve subequilateral, subtrigonal, but with [a] posterior end [that] is high and subtruncate; length and height [are] almost equal; [they have a] blunt diagonal ridge delimiting [a] relatively narrow posterior area; [the] shell wall [is] thick; [the] unbones [are] moderately well inflated and incurved, slightly opisthogyrous; [they have] no lunule or esiutcheon; [the] ligament [is] external, opisthodetic; [the] nymph [is] short and thick. Each valve [has] two teeth diverging from [the] beak, LV anterior and RV posterior almost equal in size, very stout and prominent, bluntly pointed, received in deep recesses; LV posterior and RV anterior [are] also almost equal, less prominent than [the] other two, each elongated and close to [the] margin, and each received in [a] recess between [the] major tooth of [the] opposite valve and [the] margin adjacent to it; [the] dentition of [the] valves thus [appears] identical when [the] interior of [the] shell is viewed; [the] adductor scars [are] subequal, placed rather dorsally, [the] posterior ones [are] almost superficial, each with [a] small accessory scar above it, [the] anterior ones [are] slightly impressed, each with [a] low buttress-like thickening of [the] shell wall on its posterior side in some specimens, and [a] small accessory scar on its posteroventral side; [the] pallial line [is] entire. [The] surface [has] fine concentric striae. [The] original shell structure(whether nacreous or not [is] unknown. [The] habitat [is] nonmarine.) "L Cret.(?ALB.) ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[Les damellibranles de la famille des Desortellidae ont une] coquille équivalve, inéquilatérale, [au] bord antérieur allongé [et au] bord postérieur court. [Les] crochets [sont] opposés. [Ils ont une] carène limitant du côté postérieur une aréa plus petite que le flanc. [L'] ornementation [est] faite de fines stries concentriques et de quelques stries rayonnantes. [Ils ont une] charnière identique sur les deux valves et composée d'une fossette parallèle au bord de la coquille, d'une dent triangulaire très saillante, d'une fossette triangulaire de même forme que cette dent, d'une dent lamellaire. Ces quatre éléments sont disposés en allant du bord postérieur vers le bord antérieur sur la valve droite, et du bord antérieur vers le bord postérieur sur la valve gauche. [Ils ont une] empreinte palléale entière; deux empreintes des adducteurs; [et une] trace des insertions des muscles d'attache du pied et du sac viscéral.

Spanish

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