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CODE SWITCH [17 records]

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Record 1 2019-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
CONT

Code 31 is an alarm code intended to have priority. It should switch the receiver to the station transmitting the alarm message, no matter what mode the receiver was left in.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
CONT

Le Service d'alertes sans fil au public (SASFP) vise à diffuser des messages d'avertissement en cas d'urgence pouvant sauver des vies, transmis aux Canadiens par différents moyens, notamment à leurs téléphones mobiles.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

Text-only versions of web pages used in an effort to secure high search engine rankings.

OBS

bait and switch web page; code swapping web page : The Translation Bureau recommends in its revised 2013 Linguistic Recommendation that “web” not be capitalized when it is part of a compound, whether the compound is written as two words or one, with or without a hyphen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Circuits and Circuit Breakers
CONT

The National Electrical Code defines a switching device as, "A device designed to close, open, or both, one or more electrical circuits. "The devices that fall under this classifcation are circuit breakers, cutouts, disconnecting means, disconnecting(or isolating) switch(disconnector; isolator), interrupter switch, oil cutout(oil-filled cutout), oil switch, or a regulator bypass switch.

OBS

switching device: term standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

PHR

semiconductor switching device

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits électriques et coupe-circuits
OBS

appareil de connexion : terme normalisé par la Commission électrotechnique internationale (CEI).

PHR

appareil de connexion à semiconducteur

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
OBS

An augmentative communication device with synthesized speech output that can be accessed directly by means of an optical head pointer, or by scanning, using a single switch, joystick or morse code.

OBS

A trademark of Prentke Romich Co.

Key term(s)
  • Light Talker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
OBS

Light TalkerMC : Marque de commerce de Prentke Romich Co.

Spanish

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Record 5 - external organization data 2009-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
02.01.23 (19762)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

symbology character which is used to switch from one code set to another for a single character, or in the case of "double shift" or "triple shift" characters, for two or three characters, respectively, following which data encodation reverts automatically to the code set from which the shift was invoked

OBS

shift character: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 19762-2:2008].

French

Spanish

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Record 6 - external organization data 2009-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
02.01.24 (19762)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

symbology character which is used to switch from one code set to another

OBS

The code set stays in effect until another latch or shift character is explicitly brought into use or until the end of the symbol is reached.

OBS

latch character: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 19762-2:2008].

French

Spanish

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Record 7 2004-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Video Technology
DEF

In video production, a set of nine pulses in the vertical blanking interval of a master videotape; these pulses tell the disc-mastering equipment to place a code on the disc to switch the disc player automatically to freeze-frame mode.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vidéotechnique

Spanish

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Record 8 2003-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Switching
DEF

In automatic switching, a switch developed by L.M. Ericsson as a replacement for the crossbar switch and consisting of sets of contacts operated by a coded combination of electromagnets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commutation (Télécommunications)
CONT

1961. Introduction d'un nouveau commutateur, le commutateur à code, pour les autocommutateurs privés et publics.

Spanish

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Record 9 2002-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • Computer Memories
DEF

A code which permits switching between media stations of a word processing system, allowing the system to combine such separately stored text as an address list with a repetitive letter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Códigos (Soporte lógico)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
DEF

En el procesamiento de palabras, es una instrucción de programa para la conmutación entre diferentes elementos de los medios de registro en la misma máquina, o entre diferentes secciones del almacenamiento.

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Record 10 1999-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
OBS

In 1976 AT&T installs the first digital electronic switch for phone systems. In the same year, the internationally accepted standard digital radio paging code, Post Office Code Standardization Advisory Group(POCSAG), is developed by an international group of engineers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux

Spanish

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Record 11 1999-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

Termes extraits du Lexique du CF-18 de Canadair.

Spanish

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Record 12 1997-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
DEF

An instruction to a two-station WP typewriter console to selectively play material from one medium and then switch to the second one and play.

Key term(s)
  • switch code switch

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 13 1987-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Exchanges

French

Domaine(s)
  • Centraux téléphoniques

Spanish

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Record 14 1986-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
DEF

The value contained in a variable list which replaces a variable name or a switch code in the stencil.

OBS

Terminology used in the Public Service Commission’s Course "Basic Word Processing" (Course 601).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
DEF

Valeur contenue dans une liste de variables, qui remplace un nom de variable ou un code de commutation dans le document standard.

Spanish

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Record 15 1986-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien
OBS

Terme uniformisé par le CUTA opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 16 1985-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
OBS

switch code : A code which permits switching between media stations of a word processing system, allowing the system to combine such separately stored text as an address list with a repetitive letter.

OBS

(Health and Welfare Canada, Position Description, Computer Production Operator).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
OBS

Programmation d'aiguillage : Proposition de la Terminologie.

Spanish

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Record 17 1978-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
OBS

As there is no position marked EMERGENCY on the transponder control panel, the pilot must switch his transponder to Code 77(or 7700) to indicate an emergency. The result will be two large blooming slashes(the emergency mark) displayed on all civil ground station interrogating that transponder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
OBS

Sur cette figure, nous voyons que les codes 7600 et 7700, correspondant respectivement aux messages de panne radio et de détresse, sont décodés automatiquement à l'aide de comparateurs spécialisés et, en cas de réponse sur l'un de ces deux codes, un symbole particulier (2 barres larges) remplace instantanément le symbole choisi par le contrôleur.

Spanish

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