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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A slope on the land surface, roughly determined by and approximately conforming with the direction and the angle of dip of the underlying rocks ...  2, record 1, English, - dip%20slope

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Most catastrophic rock slope failures have occurred where the dip angle of the failure plane is approximately equal or slightly less than the angle of shearing resistance, notably on sedimentary dip slopes ...  3, record 1, English, - dip%20slope

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

The term "back slope" is not always a synonym of "dip slope" and is used only where the angle of dip of the underlying rocks is somewhat divergent from the angle of the land surface.  4, record 1, English, - dip%20slope

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The shovel shear test provides information about the location where the snow could fail in shear. It is best applied for identification of buried weak layers and does not usually produce useful results in layers close to the snow surface. Soft snow near the surface is better tested with the tilt board and the shear frame or an improvised version of this tilt test.  3, record 2, English, - shovel%20shear%20test

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Shovel Shear Test. This test can be done on a flat or on a slope. With good technique, the location of weak layers, even thin weak layers, can be found. First dig a hole or pit in the snow. The vertical wall of the pit should be straight up and down, and smooth. Make a mark on the uphill portion of one corner of your pit with your shovel blade. This will mark the boundaries of your column, which should be roughly 30 cm by 30 cm or 12 inches square.(A) Now, cut both sides using a snow saw or your ski, all the way to the floor of the pit making sure that the cuts are straight.(B) The back of the column should only be cut as deep as your shovel blade is long, so measure with your shovel blade(C) and then cut the back.(D) Next, insert your shovel, blade down, in the back cut of the column and pull gently and evenly forward being careful not to lever your shovel handle.(E) Examine the shear layer where the block failed.(F) The force applied to the shovel that causes a weak layer to shear from the layers surrounding it can be rated as follows : Very easy... Easy... Moderate... Hard...  4, record 2, English, - shovel%20shear%20test

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The results of the shovel shear test were inconclusive. [Example approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.]  5, record 2, English, - shovel%20shear%20test

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Shovel test: abbreviated form of "shovel shear test." Shovel test may also refer to the shovel tilt test or the shovel compression test.  6, record 2, English, - shovel%20shear%20test

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Observers are cautioned that identification of the weak layers is the primary objective of the shovel shear test. The shovel shear test is not a stability test.  3, record 2, English, - shovel%20shear%20test

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 3 OBS

shovel shear test: term officially approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.  6, record 2, English, - shovel%20shear%20test

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Le test de la pelle consiste à isoler une tranche du manteau neigeux de base carrée (la largeur est celle de la pelle, soit une trentaine de centimètres en moyenne), puis à la tirer vers soi ou à la charger pour détecter la présence de plan(s) de glissement potentiel(s).  4, record 2, French, - test%20de%20cisaillement%20%C3%A0%20la%20pelle

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Le test de cisaillement à la pelle n'a pas donné de résultats définitifs. [Exemple entériné par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.]  5, record 2, French, - test%20de%20cisaillement%20%C3%A0%20la%20pelle

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

[Ce test n'est] pas à proprement parler un test de stabilité.  4, record 2, French, - test%20de%20cisaillement%20%C3%A0%20la%20pelle

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Test de la pelle. [...] Il existe plusieurs variantes de ce test sous la même désignation. Méthode Faarlund. [...] Méthode de Munter.  4, record 2, French, - test%20de%20cisaillement%20%C3%A0%20la%20pelle

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 3 OBS

test de cisaillement à la pelle; essai de cisaillement à la pelle : termes uniformisés par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.  6, record 2, French, - test%20de%20cisaillement%20%C3%A0%20la%20pelle

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[Transceiver Search.] The grid search method. The traditional search pattern is a grid based on perpendicular lines crossing the points of maximum signal strength.  1, record 3, English, - grid%20search%20method

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[Transceiver Search. ] The second method is the grid method. When you find a signal, traverse back and forth across the slope. Where you think the signal is strongest(or, better yet, midway between fade points), you simply make a perpendicular turn(90 degrees to the old direction) and follow this new line. If the signal fades, it's the wrong way, so turn around(180 degrees) and march in the other direction until you hear the strongest signal(remember to keep turning down the volume). Turn 90 degrees again and repeat the process over and over until you zero in on the buried beacon.  4, record 3, English, - grid%20search%20method

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Recherche ARVA [appareil de recherche de victime d'avalanche]. La méthode des angles droits : moins rapide [que la méthode directionnelle et] demandant moins de pratique pour être efficace. À partir du point de son maximum, trouvé dans la recherche primaire, tenir l'appareil vertical. Réduire le son au minimum audible. Partir à 90° vers le haut (pour une question d'économie dans les déplacements). Si le son diminue, revenir au signal maximum et partir à 90° jusqu'à trouver un son maximum. Réduire la réception au minimum audible. Continuer ainsi jusqu'à ce que l'intensité sonore n'augmente plus. On se situe alors, en général, à la dernière ou avant-dernière graduation du potentiomètre. Baliser le dernier point de Réception maximum. Remarque : Pour aller plus vite dans les premières graduations, on peut à chaque point de R maximum, dès que le son commence à décroître, tourner immédiatement à 90° afin d'aller plus vite.  2, record 3, French, - m%C3%A9thode%20en%20croix

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF

An extremely upright hoof with a very broken-forward pastern-hoof axis.  2, record 4, English, - club%20foot

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May be caused by flexor deformity. In extreme cases, the digit may be folded back, with the animal bearing weight on its dorsal surface. In congenital club feet, the slope of the heels is usually more upright than that of the toe.  2, record 4, English, - club%20foot

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Ranging from cases where a slight contracture of the tendons causes too much weight bearing on the toe, sometimes bearing only on the toe ("pied pinçard"), to cases where the horse walks on the front of the hoof wall ("pied bot").  3, record 4, English, - club%20foot

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

pied pinçard : Lorsque le pied appuie seulement sur la pince.  1, record 4, French, - pied%20pin%C3%A7ard

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pied rampin : Lorsque la pince est renversée.  1, record 4, French, - pied%20pin%C3%A7ard

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 3 OBS

pied bot : Lorsque, dans un cas encore plus exagéré, le cheval marche sur le devant de sa muraille.  1, record 4, French, - pied%20pin%C3%A7ard

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Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Broken foot in which the foot axis ... is less upright than the pastern axis ...  2, record 5, English, - foot%20broken%20back

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Pic 2 shows a foot broken forward. This angle creates excessive jarring as there is less spring whereas pic 3 shows the foot broken back. This applies excessive tension on the tendons.  3, record 5, English, - foot%20broken%20back

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 OBS

... the junction of the pastern axis and the foot axis forms a line that is broken (pointing) toward the back. The hoof appears sloping and the toe elongates.  4, record 5, English, - foot%20broken%20back

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 2 OBS

When the slope of the dorsal hoof wall is shallower than that of the pastern, the axis is said to be broken back.  5, record 5, English, - foot%20broken%20back

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 3 OBS

Although some studies have been done on a broken-back foot axis (hoof angle lower than the pastern angle), ... one cannot tell if the results are due to a "misalignment" or simply to a low angle.  6, record 5, English, - foot%20broken%20back

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 OBS

L'axe du paturon est plus vertical que celui du pied, les talons sont trop bas pour que l'axe pied-paturon forme une ligne droite.  1, record 5, French, - pied%20%C3%A0%20talons%20trop%20bas

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Pour être bien fait, le paturon doit être court. Trop long, il constitue un vice et le cheval est dit long-jointé. Trop court, c'est aussi un défaut et le cheval est court-jointé. S'il est trop incliné, le cheval est bas-jointé. S'il ne l'est pas assez, le cheval est haut-jointé.  2, record 5, French, - pied%20%C3%A0%20talons%20trop%20bas

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terme connexe : haut-jointé. (Le paturon n'est pas assez incliné.)  3, record 5, French, - pied%20%C3%A0%20talons%20trop%20bas

Record 5,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

An asymmetrical ridge, with along gentle slope on one side conforming with the dip of the underlying strata, and a steep or clifflike face on the other side formed by the outcrop of the resistant beds.  3, record 6, English, - cuesta

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

A Spanish term that has been widely adopted... In modern usage, however, the term cuesta is thought to be a landform in which the back slope and the dip slope are virtually synonymous.  4, record 6, English, - cuesta

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 2 OBS

"Wold" is an obsolete synonym for cuesta preserved in English place names such as Cotswolds.  2, record 6, English, - cuesta

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Forme de relief dissymétrique dégagée dans une structure monoclinale de résistance contrastée, superposant une couche résistante à une couche tendre.  3, record 6, French, - cuesta

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

cuesta : [...] terme d'origine texane popularisé par W.M. Davis (1896) [...]  3, record 6, French, - cuesta

Record 6,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 7,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 DEF

The gentler slope on the opposite side of a cuesta, dipping in the direction of the strata, but at a smaller gradient.  3, record 7, English, - cuesta%20back%20slope

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

Record 7,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 8,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A slope with the stalls branching off and working the seam with back slips along the face.  2, record 8, English, - back%20slope

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

Record 8,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 9,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 DEF

In geology, the less-sloping side of a ridge.  3, record 9, English, - backslope

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Contrasted with escarpment, the steeper slope.  3, record 9, English, - backslope

Record 9,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Versant à pente plus douce d'une crête.  1, record 9, French, - revers

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS

C'est l'opposé de l'escarpement qui est le versant le plus raide.  1, record 9, French, - revers

Record 9,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 10,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A rock or ice face of a mountain with a more-than-vertical slope(more than 90 degrees) extending back to the climber.  1, record 10, English, - overhang

Record 10,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Partie d'une paroi qui fait saillie par rapport à la base.  1, record 10, French, - surplomb

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Même si ces deux termes sont équivalents de «overhang», on appelle «surplomb» une saillie fort prononcée («strong overhang») et «dévers», une saillie peu prononcée («slight overhang»).  2, record 10, French, - surplomb

Record 10,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 11,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Most people ride best with a level saddle, and some prefer the nose tilted slightly up. Too much downward slope of the saddle, either to the front or back, sometimes done to ease soreness, will have you sliding off and having to brace yourself with your arms, which can cause soreness in the arms.  3, record 11, English, - seat

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Seat or saddles as they are still called, come in a variety of sizes and shapes and vary greatly in quality and comfort  4, record 11, English, - seat

Record 11,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Petit siège de cuir pourvu d'une suspension à ressorts, et sur lequel s'assied le cycliste ou le motocycliste.  2, record 11, French, - selle

Record 11,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 12,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Meso-scale wind flows play an important part in the dispersion of pollutants. These flows(horizontal dimension of 10s of kilometers) include :(i) land and sea or lake breezes[;](ii) urban heat-island circulation[;](iii) slope and valley winds. Such flows are most noticeable when skies are clear and when the macro-scale flows(horizontal dimensions of 100s to 1 000s of kilometers) are weak. Characteristically, these meso-scale features have 24-hour cycles(diurnal variations), so that the daily mean vector wind is small and thus, pollution is moved back and forth across the region without much dilution.  1, record 12, English, - meso%2Dscale%20feature

Record 12,  Textual support,  French

Record 12,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 13,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Sanitor-vitreous china, slope front stall urinal with integral flushing rim-C-4030 3/4" top or back spud.-C. S. A. Certified.  1, record 13, English, - integral%20flushing%20rim

Record 13,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Sanitor - Stalle d'urinoir en porcelaine vitreuse, devant incliné avec bord à effet d'eau intégré - C-4030 ligature de 3/4" sur le dessus ou en arrière. - Attestation C.S.A.  1, record 13, French, - bord%20%C3%A0%20effet%20d%27eau%20int%C3%A9gr%C3%A9

Record 13,  Textual support,  Spanish