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WRITE BACK [5 records]

Record 1 2013-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
  • Financial Accounting
DEF

To write one's signature on the back of(a check, for example) as evidence of the legal transfer of its ownership, especially in return for the cash or credit indicated on its face.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
  • Comptabilité générale
DEF

Procéder à l'endossement de (un effet, chèque).

CONT

Signer. Revêtir de sa signature. Signer une lettre, un chèque, une pétition, un contrat, un acte, un traite.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • History (General)
OBS

In Canada, October is the Women’s History Month.

OBS

Women's History Month(WHM) was created in 1992 to encourage greater awareness among Canadians of the historical contributions of women to our society, and to recognize the achievements of women as a vital part of our Canadian heritage. The goal of WHM is to write women back into Canadian history and to develop a better understanding of the diverse roles women play in contemporary society.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Histoire (Généralités)
OBS

Au Canada, le mois d'octobre est le Mois de l'histoire des femmes.

OBS

Le Mois de l'histoire des femmes (MHF) a été créé en 1992 pour sensibiliser davantage les Canadiennes et les Canadiens aux contributions historiques des femmes à notre société et souligner les réalisations des femmes, élément déterminant de notre patrimoine canadien. L'objectif du MHF est de redonner aux femmes la place qui leur revient dans l'histoire du Canada et de mieux faire comprendre les rôles divers joués par les femmes dans la société contemporaine.

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
OBS

Magnetic drums and disk storage devices have a section that has a faster access than that provided by a complete revolution of that drum or disk, i. e., a read head and a write head spaced some distance apart on the same track so that data written by one head is read by another head a short time later and sent back to the write head.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
CONT

En un tambor magnético, estas pistas están asociadas con las cabezas de lectura/escritura o grabación y están situadas de tal forma, que las señales se regeneran en cada vuelta del tambor para conservar los datos en él registrados. Por tanto, cada pista regenerativa y sus cabezas de lectura/escritura actúan como un almacenamiento regenerativo.

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Record 4 1986-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

A cache management technique in which data from a write operation is copied in both cache and main memory. Cache and main memory data are always consistent. Contrast with write back.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
DEF

A cache management technique in which cache is allocated on a write miss as well as on the usual read miss.

OBS

Contrast with "write through" and "write back".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
OBS

Comparer à "recopie intégrale" et à "réinscrire".

Spanish

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