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Record 1 2017-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drainage and Irrigation (Agric.)
DEF

A method of flood irrigation on steep land by which water is applied to a slope from a channel that follows the contour.

CONT

Contour ditch irrigation is also known as wild flooding. It consists of a series of ditches spaced 25 to 100 m apart. There is a slight slope along these ditches and usually, the downslope bank is lower so that the water, when checked, is not restrained from flowing into the field along the entire ditch. Sometimes, water release into the field is accomplished by making cuts through the down-slope bank or using siphons. Theoretically, in contour ditch irrigation the water moves down the slope as a uniform sheet. Successive ditches located down the slope pick up the surface runoff and redistribute it to lower portions of the field.

OBS

Contour. A line of constant elevation.

Key term(s)
  • wild flooding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drainage et irrigation (Agriculture)
CONT

Irrigation par rigoles de niveau. Cette méthode consiste à inonder abondamment le sol à partir de fossés disposés à peu près selon la courbe de niveau et espacés de 75 à 300 pi (23 à 90 m) l'un de l'autre. Comme cette méthode exige beaucoup de main-d'œuvre pour n'assurer qu'une faible efficacité, elle ne devrait être utilisée qu'en attendant de terminer le nivellement du terrain pour adopter une méthode plus efficace.

CONT

L'irrigation par rigoles de niveau ou par rases : les rigoles de niveau s'utilisent en régions de montagnes sur des terrains à forte pente (jusqu'à 25 %) ou accidentés. Les rases constituent une variante pour les terrains à faible pente. On doit donner de la pente aux rigoles qui ne sont plus parallèles mais légèrement obliques par rapport aux courbes de niveau.

Key term(s)
  • irrigation par rases

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Drenaje y riego (Agricultura)
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Record 2 2013-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
CONT

In order to obtain first matches between AM [ante-mortem] and PM [post-mortem] findings, it is often helpful to prepare a list of special AM and PM key markers for bodies... In the subsequent individual comparison process, the matches obtained during first matching are collated and checked through individual comparison of the individual AM missing persons file with the corresponding findings in the PM file.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences
CONT

Pour obtenir des premières correspondances entre les données AM [ante mortem] et PM [post mortem], il est souvent utile d'établir une liste des signes particuliers AM et PM observés sur les corps. [...] Dans le processus suivant, dit de comparaison individuelle, les concordances obtenues au cours du premier rapprochement sont rassemblées et vérifiées grâce à la comparaison du dossier contenant les données AM des personnes disparues avec les données figurant dans le dossier PM correspondant.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
CONT

In order to obtain first matches between AM [ante-mortem] and PM [post-mortem] findings, it is often helpful to prepare a list of special AM and PM key markers for bodies... In the subsequent individual comparison process, the matches obtained during first matching are collated and checked through individual comparison of the individual AM missing persons file with the corresponding findings in the PM file.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences
CONT

Pour obtenir des premières correspondances entre les données AM [ante mortem] et PM [post mortem], il est souvent utile d'établir une liste des signes particuliers AM et PM observés sur les corps. [...] Dans le processus suivant, dit de comparaison individuelle, les concordances obtenues au cours du premier rapprochement sont rassemblées et vérifiées grâce à la comparaison du dossier contenant les données AM des personnes disparues avec les données figurant dans le dossier PM correspondant.

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
  • Radiation Protection
DEF

The containment formed by the building walls, designed to confine the radioactive materials and kept permanently at lower pressure than the atmosphere outside, by extractor ventilators.

OBS

This arrangement prevents the transfer of any contamination in the buildings to the outside except via the flow of extracted air, and this air is collected, filtered and checked before release through the stack.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
  • Radioprotection
CONT

[Réacteur Superphénix.] […] l’enceinte primaire est formée de la cuve principale du réacteur et de ses fermetures supérieures (dalles et bouchons tournants); — l’enceinte secondaire est constituée de la cuve de sécurité et du dôme qui confine de manière étanche l’atmosphère située au-dessus des fermetures supérieures; — le bâtiment lui-même est une enceinte à fuites contrôlées.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Meteorology
CONT

The avalanche ran through the monitored site entirely, affecting the ski run below for a track of 50 m where it stopped its run leaving a deposit consisting of round-shaped blocks behind.... through a survey after the event, a series of very detailed nivologic information were collected... In particular strata profiles in proximity to the release zone and in correspondence to the major deposits along the gliding zone and the accumulation zone were carried out. Along the whole avalanche site a series of transverse sections were considered. In correspondence to these, values of the snow cover height were checked and analyses of stratigraphy of the snow cover able to single out snow masses which had been drifted by wind and deposited by the progressing avalanche.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Météorologie
CONT

Lorsque l'on examine les plaques sélectionnées, il semble qu'un certain nombre de conditions nivologiques sont nécessaires pour qu'un déclenchement [d'une avalanche] se produise. Pour les tester, nous avons retenu les critères se rapportant au type de grains (neige fraîche à l'exception des couches comprenant surtout des étoiles, ou particules reconnaissables), à l'épaisseur de neige nouvelle (plus de 9 cm au cours des 5 journées précédentes) et à la masse volumique (plus de 75 kg/m3).

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drainage and Irrigation (Agric.)
CONT

Contour ditch irrigation is also known as wild flooding. It consists of a series of ditches spaced 25 to 100 m apart. There is a slight slope along these ditches and usually, the downslope bank is lower so that the water, when checked, is not restrained from flowing into the field along the entire ditch. Sometimes, water release into the field is accomplished by making cuts through the downslope bank or using siphons. Theoretically, in contour ditch irrigation the water moves down the slope as a uniform sheet. Successive ditches located down the slope pick up the surface runoff and redistribute it to lower portions of the field.

Key term(s)
  • contour-ditch irrigation
  • wild flooding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drainage et irrigation (Agriculture)
CONT

L'irrigation par rigoles de niveau ou par rases : les rigoles de niveau s'utilisent en régions de montagnes sur des terrains à forte pente (jusqu'à 25 %) ou accidentés. Les rases constituent une variante pour les terrains à faible pente. On doit donner de la pente aux rigoles qui ne sont plus parallèles mais légèrement obliques par rapport aux courbes de niveau.

OBS

rase : Régional (Provence). Fossé, rigole

Key term(s)
  • irrigation par rigoles de niveau

Spanish

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Record 7 1987-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landing Gear (Aeroindustry)
CONT

Landing gear visual indicators provide the flight crew with definite reference markings that can be physically checked to ascertain the position of the landing gear overcenter links while the airplane is airborne.... The main gear downlock visual indicators... are two red anodize stripes applied to each main gear downlock hinge.... The nosegear downlock visual indicators... consists of red anodize stripe applied to the upper and lower lock link assemblies at the breakover hinge point. When the nosegear is down and locked, a straight red anodize stripe is visible on the top side of the overcenter link when viewed through the peephole in flight compartment floor. When the nosegear is up and locked, a straight line of scotchlite tape is visible on the right side of the overcenter linkage extending across both upper and lower links, when viewed through the peephole in the flight compartment floor.

Key term(s)
  • downlock stripe
  • visual indicator stripe

French

Domaine(s)
  • Atterrisseur (Constructions aéronautiques)
OBS

repère visuel de verrouillage du train d'atterrissage : terme accepté par le Comité d'étude de la terminologie des cartes de travail du DC-9.

Spanish

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Record 8 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications
OBS

Baggage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications

Spanish

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