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WRITTEN MASTER [8 records]

Record 1 2024-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems (Land Forces)
  • Armour
DEF

During the action drill, a term used by the gunner to confirm the turret master switch has been turned on.

OBS

In the Canadian Forces, this concept is considered obsolete.

OBS

master switch on : This designation must be written in capital letters in Canadian Forces documents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes (Forces terrestres)
  • Arme blindée
DEF

Lors du drill des procédures de préparation, terme utilisé par le tireur pour confirmer que l'interrupteur principal est en circuit.

OBS

Dans les Forces canadiennes, cette notion est considérée comme désuète.

OBS

interrupteur principal en marche : Cette désignation doit être écrite en majuscules dans les documents des Forces canadiennes.

OBS

interrupteur principal en marche : désignation uniformisée par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Equipment and Supplies
DEF

A master with characters in the same plane as the non-printing areas and prepared by a typewriter or other writing medium.

OBS

written master : term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
DEF

Cliché portant des caractères situés dans le même plan que les zones de non-impression et préparé à l'aide d'une machine à écrire ou de tout autre moyen d'écriture.

OBS

cliché écrit : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Storage Media (Data Processing)
  • Lasers and Masers
DEF

... a plastic disk on which input signals are recorded as a sequence of coded holes that were originally written onto a master disk by using a high-power laser.

CONT

Laser videodiscs. Below its plastic surface, one of the grooveless platters hides billions of pits so tiny that 100 of them could fit in the diameter of an eyelash. Encoded by the indentations on each side of the platter may be music, the text of thousands of books, or 54,000 color TV images decipherable by the laser beam in a videodisc player.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Supports d'information (Informatique)
  • Masers et lasers

Spanish

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Record 4 2009-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
  • Regulations (Water Transport)
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

Written notification provided by a vessel owner, master or shipping agent to a charterer, shipper, or consignee that the vessel has arrived at port and is prepared to commence loading or discharging of cargo, as the case may be.

OBS

The charter party clause containing this provision often stipulates the particular hours and days when this notice may be tendered and how soon afterwards laytime commences. Failure by the charterer, shipper, or consignee to commence loading/discharging is apt to start laytime running.

Key term(s)
  • readiness notice

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime
  • Réglementation (Transport par eau)
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Avis que le capitaine, le propriétaire d'un navire ou son agent envoie à l'affréteur pour indiquer que le navire est prêt pour le chargement (ou le déchargement) selon les modalités stipulées par la charte-partie.

CONT

Les staries pour le chargement ne commencent à courir que lorsque le fréteur a donné un avis appelé «avis de prêt à opérer», au moment et selon les modalités stipulées par la charte-partie, que le navire est prêt à charger. Il peut le faire oralement, à moins que la charte n'exige, comme c'est habituellement le cas, que cette notice de mise à disposition du navire soit envoyée par écrit.

Key term(s)
  • avis de mise en état

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho marítimo
  • Reglamentación (Transporte por agua)
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Carta de aviso dando cuenta de que se está listo para cargar o descargar estando con póliza de fletamento.

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Record 5 2003-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
DEF

The controller program in an operating system.

CONT

Burroughs released its master control program(MCP) written in a high-level language and with facilities for multiprocessing and multiprogramming.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
DEF

Programme régissant le fonctionnement de la machine (moniteur) ou des différentes parties d'un programme.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
DEF

Programa de computadora (ordenador) para controlar la operación del sistema.

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Record 6 2002-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
  • Foreign Trade
  • Regulations (Water Transport)
CONT

Free of turn. This condition means that laydays will commence to count as soon as the vessel has arrived at the port of loading or discharge, whether a berth is available or not, provided, of course, the ship is ready to load or to discharge in every respect and written notice or readiness has been given by the master.

Key term(s)
  • free of turn clause
  • without turn clause

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Réglementation (Transport par eau)
CONT

Free of turn (franc d'attente avant le tour de rôle): clause ayant pour effet de faire entrer dans les staries le temps durant lequel le navire attend son tour de poste à quai.

OBS

La clause «free of turn» [...] a pour objet propre de permettre l'envoi de la notice (ou de faire courir les délais de staries lorsque cet envoi n'est pas imposé) alors que le navire doit attendre son tour avant d'accéder au bassin ou au quai. Cette attente peut intervenir en quelque lieu que le navire soit ancré, dans le port ou hors du port.

Key term(s)
  • clause franc d'attente avant le tour de rôle

Spanish

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Record 7 1987-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Airfields
CONT

... an airport master plan "presents the planner's conception of the ultimate development of a specific airport. It... presents the research and logic from which the plan was evolved and artfully displays the plan in a graphic and written report. Master plans are applied to the modernization and expansion of existing airports and to the construction of new airports.... "... an airport master plan is only a guide... for 1) the development of physical facilities of an airport-aviation and non-aviation use, 2) development of land uses for areas surrounding an airport, 3) determining the environmental effects of airport construction and operation, and 4) establishing access requirements of the airport.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérodromes

Spanish

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Record 8 1985-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Graphic Arts and Printing
CONT

Evolution of glyptal letters reflects the fundamental changes in the technology of letter production brought about by the invention of printing from movable type. The letter image was no longer the result of a series of strokes written "on the fly" by a scribe; instead each letter was painstakingly engraved as a single master copy onto the face of a steel punch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Imprimerie et arts graphiques

Spanish

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