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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2019-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
CONT

Deviation Scale-when tuned to a VOR [VHF omnidirectional radio range] frequency, each white dot represents 2° of deviation left or right of course. When tuned to a localizer, the deviation is 1/2° per dot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
OBS

échelle d'écart : terme uniformisé par le Comité de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Pilotaje y navegación aérea
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Record 2 2004-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
CONT

Cleveland is, of course, a bay horse, typically blood bay, and with no white markings whatsoever and occasionally with and atavistic tendency to develop a black stripe in the back and on the legs thus attesting to its early origins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
  • The Stars (Astronomy)
DEF

The smaller body in a co-orbiting star or planet binary.

CONT

During the course of its evolution the primary expands, and its atmosphere may be gravitationally attracted to the secondary, the gas streaming from one star to the other.... So much gas may flow from the primary to the secondary that the secondary eventually becomes the new primary. Sirius, which has a companion that has evolved into a white dwarf, has now reached this state.

OBS

"Partner" and "mate" may be encountered as stylistic variants of the more technical term "companion".

Key term(s)
  • partner
  • mate

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronomie
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
  • Étoiles (Astronomie)
DEF

Le plus petit élément d'une étoile double.

CONT

[...] alors que l'évolution des étoiles simples a lieu sans contrainte, l'expansion d'une des composantes des étoiles doubles serrées est gênée par son compagnon, au point que ce voisin gourmand peut pendant cette expansion s'approprier une fraction de la masse qui appartenait à son partenaire.

OBS

Le terme technique "compagnon" peut se remplacer parfois par la variante stylistique "partenaire".

Key term(s)
  • partenaire

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Astronomía
  • Astrofísica y cosmografía
  • Estrellas (Astronomía)
DEF

Astro oscuro o insuficientemente brillante cuya presencia en torno de una estrella nos es revelada por métodos indirectos y no por su observación telescópica.

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Record 4 1988-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Visual Disorders
CONT

A highway study of clear, tinted and photochronic prescription spectacles was conducted using a 58-mile driving course marked with 130 randomly spaced transverse white stripes. The data of 29 subjects totaling more than 21, 000 stripe detection events showed that coated photochromic prescription lenses performed better by day and poorer by night compared to uncoated white crown prescription lenses....(Source : Journal of the American Optometry Association, 1979, volume 50, no. 9, pp. 1023-1027).

OBS

The term "prescription lens" may also refer to contact lenses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles de la vision
CONT

Un atelier de surfaçage S pour les double-foyers et les verres de prescription. (Source : L'Optique française et l'opticien lunetier, 1970, no. 207, p. XXI).

Spanish

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