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Record 1 2024-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Riveting (Metals)
CONT

The invention relates to a dimpling tool or the like for forming dimples in metal sheet.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rivetage (Métallurgie)

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

dimple maker : an item in the "Medical and Psychological Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Science and Technology" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

appareil à fossettes : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement médicaux et psychologiques» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour les sciences et la technologie».

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Bones and Joints
Universal entry(ies)
spina iliaca posterior superior
Latin
A02.5.01.113
classification system code, see observation
CONT

The PSIS lies at the posterior border of the iliac crest, deep to a dimple visible on the skin of the back, at the level of the S2 vertebra.

OBS

posterior superior iliac spine: term derived from the Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

A02.5.01.113: Terminologia Anatomica identifying number.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Os et articulations
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
spina iliaca posterior superior
Latin
A02.5.01.113
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Proéminence à l'extrémité postérieure de la crête iliaque.

OBS

épine iliaque postéro-supérieure; épine iliaque postérieure et supérieure : termes dérivés de la Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

A02.5.01.113 : numéro d'identification de la Terminologia Anatomica.

Key term(s)
  • épine iliaque postérosupérieure

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Morfología y fisiología general
  • Huesos y articulaciones
Entrada(s) universal(es)
spina iliaca posterior superior
Latin
A02.5.01.113
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Ápice del borde posterior de la cresta ilíaca.

OBS

A02.5.01.113: cifra identificadora única de la Terminología Anatómica Internacional.

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Record 4 2013-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
CONT

Radiologic evaluation for jaw cysts, calcification of the falx cerebri (a nearly pathognomic sign), and skeletal abnormalities such as bifid or deformed ribs, bridging of the sella turcica, kyphoscoliosis, pectus excavatum, or a short fourth metacarpal (Albright’s sign) can help confirm the diagnosis.

OBS

When the patient makes a fist, the dentist counts the knuckles, beginning with the index finger, and observes, "knuckle, knuckle, dimple, knuckle. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lichens
Universal entry(ies)
Gyalecta friesii
Latin
OBS

A lichen of the family Gyalectaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lichens
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Gyalecta friesii
Latin
OBS

Lichen de la famille des Gyalectaceae.

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lichens
Universal entry(ies)
Gyalecta jenensis
Latin
OBS

A lichen of the family Gyalectaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lichens
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Gyalecta jenensis
Latin
OBS

Lichen de la famille des Gyalectaceae.

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lichens
Universal entry(ies)
Gyalecta truncigena
Latin
OBS

A lichen of the family Gyalectaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lichens
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Gyalecta truncigena
Latin
OBS

Lichen de la famille des Gyalectaceae.

Spanish

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Record 8 2012-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lichens
Universal entry(ies)
Gyalecta foveolaris
Latin
OBS

A lichen of the family Gyalectaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lichens
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Gyalecta foveolaris
Latin
OBS

Lichen de la famille des Gyalectaceae.

Spanish

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Record 9 2012-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lichens
Universal entry(ies)
Belonia russula
Latin
OBS

A lichen of the family Gyalectaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lichens
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Belonia russula
Latin
OBS

Lichen de la famille des Gyalectaceae.

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
DEF

A small depression.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations
DEF

Légère dépression à la surface d'une structure anatomique.

OBS

Le terme «fossette» a été privilégié par le Comité de sémiologie médicale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Huesos y articulaciones
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Record 11 2011-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Golf
DEF

The depression on the cover of a golf ball.

CONT

Dimples are aerodynamic devices, and changing the shape and depth of individual dimples(or the overall dimple pattern) has an effect on the flight of the ball.

CONT

A golf ball has dimples.

OBS

Term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • dimples

French

Domaine(s)
  • Golf
DEF

Chacune des petites cavités de l'enveloppe de la balle, permettant de stabiliser sa trajectoire en vol.

CONT

[...] toute la surface [de la balle] est recouverte de trois cent quarante-deux alvéoles minuscules [...].

OBS

Terme habituellement employé au pluriel.

OBS

alvéole : Il est à noter que la forme au masculin est vieillie.

Key term(s)
  • alvéoles

Spanish

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Record 12 2010-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
CONT

There are many tests to demonstrate rotatory instability including lateral pivot shift, flexion rotation drawer, Slocum test and the jerk test.

CONT

The lateral pivot shift performed in that manner results in subluxation of the radius and ulna off the humerus which causes a prominence posterolaterally over the radial head and a dimple between the radial head and the capitellum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations
CONT

La recherche des mouvements de latéralité est pratiquée sur le genou en extension, puis en flexion à 30 degrés, ce qui détend les ligaments latéraux et permet de tester les croisés.

Spanish

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Record 13 2009-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
CONT

In the fabrication of a nuclear fuel assembly, the fuel rods are loaded into a fuel assembly skeleton. The fuel assembly skeleton consists of the guide thimbles attached to the grids. Each grid cell has springs and dimples which laterally support the fuel rod to be loaded therein.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission

Spanish

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Record 14 2007-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wheels and Tires (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
CONT

Dimples are the indentations in the tread, normally towards the outer edge of the tyre. They improve cooling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Roues et pneus (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
CONT

Ces pneus portent également des petites empreintes que l'on appelle fossettes. Lorsque la bande de roulement est usée et que les fossettes [ne sont plus visibles], il est temps de changer le pneu.

Spanish

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Record 15 2006-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Golf
  • Sports Facilities and Venues
DEF

The outside surface of a golf ball.

CONT

The final piece to the golf ball design puzzle is aerodynamics, or the dimple pattern on the cover. The number of dimples, their shapes, depths and sizes, and even the way they are grouped have profound influence over the way a ball flies and how it performs in the air.

OBS

The cover may be one of any number of materials, Surlyn™ and balata being most common.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Golf
  • Installations et sites (Sports)
DEF

Partie externe de la balle, creusée d'alvéoles.

CONT

Chaque type d'enveloppe aura un impact sur les performances de la balle.

Spanish

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Record 16 2005-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
DEF

Dépression d'origine hydrodynamique à la périphérie d'un film liquide en cours d'amincissement.

Spanish

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Record 17 2001-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[Chez un Trilobite, le] «condyle» [...] s'emboîte dans une «fossette articulaire» creusée dans le bord postérieur de l'anneau précédent [...]

Spanish

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Record 18 2001-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

L'allongement [du ligament d'un Lamellibranche] se fait en arrière de surfaces d'insertions saillantes ou nymphes ligamentaires; la position terminale postérieure du ligament est alors insérée dans un sillon creusé dans le plancher cardinal, appelé «fossette secondaire», qui est conservée chez les fossiles [...]

Spanish

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Record 19 1999-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Riveting (Metals)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

Thermo-dimpling. This type of dimpling consists of two processes, radius dimpling and coin dimpling. The major difference between radius and coin dimpling is in the construction of the female die. In radius dimpling a solid female die is used. Coin dimpling uses a sliding ram female die that makes this process superior. During the coin dimpling process, the metal is coined(made to flow) into the contours of the dies so that the dimple assumes the true shape of the die. The pressure exerted by the coining ram prevents the metal from compressing and thereby assures uniform cross sectional thickness of the sides of the dimple and a true conical shape.

OBS

In coin dimpling, the inner and outer cones are formed to the same angle. ... Coin dimpling is done with either ram-type or non-ram type dies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rivetage (Métallurgie)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
CONT

Embrèvement à chaud. Ce mode d'embrèvement s'effectue suivant deux méthodes : embrèvement embouti et embrèvement frappé. La différence essentielle entre ces deux méthodes consiste dans la construction de la matrice. Dans l'embrèvement embouti, on utilise une matrice monobloc. Dans l'embrèvement frappé, on emploie une matrice à coulisseau, qui fait la supériorité de ce dernier procédé. Au cours de l'exécution d'un embrèvement frappé, le métal est matricé (on l'oblige à s'écouler) dans les contours des outils, de sorte que l'embrèvement prend la forme exacte donnée par les outils. La pression exercée par le coulisseau de frappe empêche le métal de se comprimer, et il assure donc la formation d'une section uniforme des côtés de l'embrèvement, et d'une configuration véritablement tronconique.

Spanish

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Record 20 1999-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Riveting (Metals)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

In coin dimpling, the inner and outer cones are formed to the same angle. ... Coin dimpling is done with either ram-type or non-ram type dies.

CONT

Thermo-dimpling. This type of dimpling consists of two processes, radius dimpling and coin dimpling. The major difference between radius and coin dimpling is in the construction of the female die. In radius dimpling a solid female die is used. Coin dimpling uses a sliding ram female die that makes this process superior. During the coin dimpling process, the metal is coined(made to flow) into the contours of the dies so that the dimple assumes the true shape of the die. The pressure exerted by the coining ram prevents the metal from compressing and thereby assures uniform cross sectional thickness of the sides of the dimple and a true conical shape.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rivetage (Métallurgie)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
CONT

Embrèvement à chaud. Ce mode d'embrèvement s'effectue suivant deux méthodes : embrèvement embouti et embrèvement frappé. La différence essentielle entre ces deux méthodes consiste dans la construction de la matrice. Dans l'embrèvement embouti, on utilise une matrice monobloc. Dans l'embrèvement frappé, on emploie une matrice à coulisseau, qui fait la supériorité de ce dernier procédé. Au cours de l'exécution d'un embrèvement frappé, le métal est matricé (on l'oblige à s'écouler) dans les contours des outils, de sorte que l'embrèvement prend la forme exacte donnée par les outils. La pression exercée par le coulisseau de frappe empêche le métal de se comprimer, et il assure donc la formation d'une section uniforme des côtés de l'embrèvement, et d'une configuration véritablement tronconique.

Spanish

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Record 21 1999-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Riveting (Metals)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

Aircraft Rivets.... For dimpling heavier skins or skins of some of the harder alloys, such as 7075, hot dimpling may be used. This is usually done in the [coin dimpling] manner.... The dies are held in a special squeezer that allows electrical current to flow through the sheet for an accurately measured period of time. This current causes the metal immediately around the dies to heat up, and then air pressure is applied to force the dies together. Rather than the male die being driven into the female, the female die is forced up around the male, causing the hot metal to flow up tighter around the male die, forming a dimple with closer tolerance than that formed with the radius method.

OBS

hot dimpling: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rivetage (Métallurgie)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

embrèvement à chaud : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 22 1998-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Geology
OBS

A spring occurring in any small depression reaching below the water table.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Géologie

Spanish

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Record 23 1996-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Riveting (Metals)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
DEF

a depression or indentation on any surface ... such a depression in a building material (as for the recessing of nailheads).

OBS

dimple : term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rivetage (Métallurgie)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

embrèvement : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 24 1994-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Riveting (Metals)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

[Coin dimpling]. The coin ram dimpling dies are designed with a number of built-in features. The faces of both the male and female dies are dished(the male concave and the female convex) at an angle of 2° on the pilot. This facilitates removal of the metal after the dimple has been made.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rivetage (Métallurgie)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
CONT

Les outils d'embrèvement par frappe au coulisseau sont étudiés de manière à incorporer certaines caractéristiques particulières. Les faces des outils mâle et femelle sont incurvées (le poinçon ayant une forme concave, et la matrice une forme convexe), sous un angle de 2° par rapport à la tige-pilote. Cette incurvation facilite l'enlèvement du métal après exécution de l'embrèvement.

Spanish

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Record 25 1990-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
  • Safety Equipment (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
  • Braking Systems (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes
  • Sécurité (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
  • Freins (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)

Spanish

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Record 26 1990-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printed Circuits and Microelectronics
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
DEF

Deformation appearing in mechanically polished silicon wafers. These structures are usually attributable to poor polishing technique.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits imprimés et micro-électronique
  • Techniques industrielles

Spanish

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Record 27 1987-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale

Spanish

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Record 28 1986-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security Devices
DEF

Any recess in a machine part which is engaged by a spring plunger in order to secure the part in the positions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dispositifs de sécurité
DEF

Évidement pratiqué dans un organe de machine, où s'engage un verrou pour maintenir l'organe dans une position repérée.

Spanish

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Record 29 1986-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mechanical Components

French

Domaine(s)
  • Composants mécaniques

Spanish

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Record 30 1980-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien
OBS

terme d'usage obligatoire au Bureau des Traductions.

Spanish

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Record 31 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Joints and Connections (Construction)
  • Riveting (Metals)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Joints et assemblages (Construction)
  • Rivetage (Métallurgie)

Spanish

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