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HAMMER-HEAD [8 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2025-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cranes (Hoisting and Lifting)
  • Cranes (Construction Sites)
DEF

A jib crane with a load-handling device suspended either from a rigidly secured cantilever (a jib) or from a crab travelling along the cantilever.

CONT

Hammerhead cranes. These cranes are very large tower cranes. ... They are generally provided with a load trolley and various supplementary lifting units such as auxiliary trolleys and independent jib cranes, which run along the slewing cantilever (boom) at the top of a square tower.

OBS

cantilever crane: standardized by the British Standards Institution and ISO.

OBS

cantilever crane: term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grues (Levage)
  • Grues (Chantiers)
DEF

Grue sur pylône avec une flèche horizontale, sur laquelle se déplace le chariot porte-charge, et une contre-flèche plus courte supportant un contrepoids, qui équilibre la flèche et une partie de la charge.

OBS

grue à potence : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
Universal entry(ies)
Sphyrna gilberti
Latin
CONT

A fish of the family Sphyrnidae.

Key term(s)
  • Carolina hammer-head

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Sphyrna gilberti
Latin
CONT

Sphyrna gilberti, nommée de la sorte en l’honneur de Carter Gilbert est une espèce à part entière, dont la seule distinction morphologique par rapport au requin-marteau halicorne est [...] dix vertèbres en moins. L’espèce est rare, mais il est difficile à ce jour de donner sa répartition géographique.

OBS

Poisson de la famille des Sphyrnidae.

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
Universal entry(ies)
Sphyrna lewini
Latin
OBS

A fish of the family Sphyrnidae.

Key term(s)
  • scalloped hammer-head shark
  • scalloped hammer-head

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Sphyrna lewini
Latin
OBS

Poisson de la famille des Sphyrnidae.

Spanish

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Record 4 2020-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
Universal entry(ies)
Sphyrna zygaena
Latin
OBS

A fish of the family Sphyrnidae.

Key term(s)
  • smooth hammer-head shark
  • smooth hammer-head

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Sphyrna zygaena
Latin
OBS

Poisson de la famille des Sphyrnidae.

Spanish

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Record 5 2020-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
Universal entry(ies)
Sphyrna mokarran
Latin
OBS

A fish of the family Sphyrnidae.

Key term(s)
  • great hammer-head shark
  • great hammer-head

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Sphyrna mokarran
Latin
OBS

Poisson de la famille des Sphyrnidae.

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Maneuvers
CONT

¼ loop (pull or push) to vertical, as momentum/airspeed decreases, rudder is applied and the aircraft rotates around its yaw axis, the nose falls through the horizon and points towards the ground, a momentary pause is made to draw the vertical down line, and ¼ loop to level flight. This figure is sometimes called a stall turn which is a misnomer because the aircraft never actually stalls.

Key term(s)
  • hammer-head
  • hammer-head stall

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manœuvres d'aéronefs
OBS

C'est un moyen rapide de changer de direction de 180 °. L'avion monte verticalement et pivote autour d'un axe horizontal et retombe en piqué à la verticale.

Spanish

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Record 7 2006-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Track and Field
Key term(s)
  • hammer-head

French

Domaine(s)
  • Athlétisme

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Atletismo
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Record 8 1995-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
CONT

The small hammers... consist of a shaft,... at one end of which is the hammer-head covered at first with leather but now with felt....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
CONT

La tête de marteau frappe les cordes.

OBS

[...] [elle] est recouverte d'une, 2 ou 3 épaisseurs de feutre (autrefois de cuir) solide, résistant et très souple à la fois [...]

Spanish

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