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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2024-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
  • Government Accounting
CONT

... when an entity changes an accounting policy, it must disclose the amount of the adjustment to each financial statement line item affected for the current period.

OBS

A single line item or individual element of a financial statement(balance sheet or income statement), representing a class of transactions, account balance, or other disclosure, e. g., accounts receivable, or interest expense.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
  • Comptabilité publique
CONT

[...] lorsqu'une entité modifie une méthode comptable, elle doit fournir le montant de l'ajustement apporté à chaque poste des états financiers qui est touché pour la période considérée.

OBS

Poste unique ou élément individuel des états financiers (bilan ou état des résultats) représentant une catégorie d'opérations, le solde d'un compte ou d'autres informations à fournir (p. ex. créances ou intérêts débiteurs).

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
DEF

A correction applied to the resonance integral of an isolated fuel element or fuel assembly in order to obtain the resonance integral of the same element or assembly when near other elements or assemblies in the calculation of the neutron balance in a reactor cell.

OBS

Dancoff correction: term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique nucléaire
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
DEF

Dans les calculs du bilan neutronique d'une cellule du réacteur, correction apportée à l'intégrale de résonance d'un élément combustible isolé ou d'un assemblage combustible isolé en vue d'obtenir l'intégrale de résonance du même élément ou assemblage lorsqu'il est au voisinage d'autres éléments ou assemblages.

OBS

correction de Dancoff : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 3 - external organization data 2006-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
  • Geochemistry
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
DEF

Uranium having less than the natural content of the easily fissionable uranium-235, e.g. the residue from an enrichment plant or some reactors.

CONT

Depleted uranium consists of little else but the heavier isotope238U, and it has certain specialized applications such as for calorimetry in high-energy particle physics and for making armour-piercing shells.

OBS

Use :Balance weights for aircraft, high-speed rotors in gyro-compasses, gamma-radiation shielding, radio-isotope transportation casks, and fuel element transfer casks, in general as structural material applicable to radiation shielding.

OBS

depleted uranium: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
  • Géochimie
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
DEF

Uranium dans lequel la proportion de l'isotope 235 est inférieure à celle de l'uranium naturel, soit 0,72 %.

OBS

S'entend au sens du paragraphe 150 du Règlement de l'AIEA. [Règlement sur l'emballage et le transport des substances nucléaires]

OBS

uranium appauvri : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química
  • Geoquímica
  • Compartimiento - Comisión Canadiense de Seguridad Nuclear
DEF

Se denomina empobrecido el uranio cuya concentración en uranio 235, única materia fisible que contiene, es inferior a la existente en estado natural.

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Record 4 2000-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gymnastics and Trampoline
OBS

Artistic gymnastics term.

OBS

Rules/refereeing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gymnastique et trampoline
OBS

Terme de gymnastique artistique.

OBS

Règlements/arbitrage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gimnasia y acrobacias sobre cama elástica
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Record 5 2000-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
DEF

In the UCS, under the Intellectual Effort element, a sub-element that includes all conditions external to the problem itself that increase the mental effort required to solve it. These constraints might be interruptions, distractions, client pressures, time pressures, concurrent demands, the need to balance several intellectual tasks at once, the availability of resources or staff, or the number of team members or other interested parties whose views must be considered.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
DEF

Dans la NGC (cf. l'élément Effort intellectuel), sous-élément qui inclut toutes les conditions externes aux problèmes qui font augmenter l'effort mental requis pour les résoudre, comme les interruptions, les distractions, les exigences des clients et clientes, les délais serrés, les demandes simultanées, l'obligation de mener de front plusieurs tâches intellectuelles, la disponibilité des ressources ou du personnel, ou le nombre des membres de l'équipe ou des autres intervenants ou intervenantes dont les opinions doivent être considérées.

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-12-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Measuring Instruments
CONT

A scale incorporating a platter locking system shall be designed and constructed such that the system does not interfere with the zero balance display, and it shall be inoperative until the load receiving element is stable as in 5.

OBS

platter locking system: Weights and Measures Specifications SGM-1, 1990, p. 2.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de mesure
OBS

dispositif de blocage de l'élément peseur : Spécifications sur les poids et mesures SGM-1, 1990, page 2

Spanish

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Record 7 1991-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Recording and Control Instrumentation
CONT

Automatic means to maintain a digital zero balance condition shall be non-operator controlled and the maximum load that may be placed on the load receiving element, with the scale indicating zero and "rezero" without indicating a weight value, shall be a mass equal to 0. 6 of a minimum increment of registration.

OBS

Weights and Measures Specifications SGM-1, 1990, p. 3.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de contrôle et d'enregistrement
OBS

Spécifications sur les poids et mesures SGM-1, 1990, p. 3.

Spanish

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Record 8 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
  • Trade
CONT

The simple exchange of exported goods for imported goods does not constitute the only element of the balance of indebtedness of a country.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
  • Commerce
CONT

Le simple troc de marchandises exportées contre les marchandises importées ne constitue pas le seul élément de la balance économique d'un pays.

Spanish

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