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HARD COVERING [11 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 - external organization data 2025-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)
Key term(s)
  • hard wood floor covering installer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)
Key term(s)
  • poseur de revêtement de sol en bois franc
  • poseuse de revêtement de sol en bois franc

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
CONT

Glaze and rime ice are names given to the ice that forms on an airplane’s windshield, its propeller and other aerodynamic surfaces as an airplane flies through supercooled rain droplets.

CONT

The rain droplets fall through the cold layer and reach the ground as supercooled liquid (water droplets at a temperature below 0°C), or, as a mixture of liquid and ice. As they land on cold objects such as tree branches, hydro lines, etc. the supercooled rain droplets spread out and freeze almost immediately, forming a smooth thin layer of ice ...

CONT

So supercooled raindrops stay liquid until they hit something hard, when they turn into a dangerous and beautiful layer of clear ice, covering roads, wires, trees, and buildings.

OBS

supercooled raindrops; supercooled rain droplets: terms rarely used in the singular (supercooled raindrop; supercooled rain droplet).

Key term(s)
  • supercooled rain drops
  • supercooled raindrop
  • supercooled rain drop
  • supercooled rain droplet

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
CONT

[Le] verglas [est un] dépôt de glace, généralement homogène et transparent, provenant de la congélation de gouttelettes de bruine ou de gouttes de pluie en surfusion, sur les objets dont la surface est à une température inférieure à zéro degré Celsius.

OBS

gouttes de pluie en surfusion : terme inusité au singulier (goutte de pluie en surfusion).

Key term(s)
  • goutte de pluie en surfusion

Spanish

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Record 4 - external organization data 2001-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Waste Management
  • Nuclear Waste Materials
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

The third category of waste, that with hazardous lifetimes greater than 500 years, will continue to be stored until a suitable repository can be justified economically.

CONT

The selection of an appropriate repository will depend primarily on local geological, hydrological, topographic and climatic conditions at the site. In general above-ground structures will be preferred where there is groundwater close to the earth surface or where excavation of pits or trenches would be difficult owing to hard bedrock close to the surface. On the other hand, in terrains with favourable properties, preference should be given to subsurface modules because of better shielding, easier handling during emplacement, simpler backfilling and covering with earth materials, and reduced potential for erosion.

CONT

Underground repository for radioactive waste.

OBS

See also "disposal site", and "final repository (or disposal site)".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des déchets
  • Déchets nucléaires
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

[...] au 1er janvier 1957, on avait déjà emmagasiné aux États-Unis environ 280 000 m3 de déchets liquides à haut niveau de radioactivité dans 170 dépôts.

CONT

Déchets solides. [...] La méthode de stockage généralement employée consiste à enfouir les substances dans des zones où le sol peut retenir les radionuclides et où le danger d'une contamination des eaux souterraines est minimal. Le danger potentiel de ces dépôts et les précautions nécessaires pour sélectionner, utiliser et contrôler les zones d'enfouissement dépendent naturellement des radionuclides présents et des niveaux d'activité.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión de los desechos
  • Desechos nucleares
  • Compartimiento - Comisión Canadiense de Seguridad Nuclear
Key term(s)
  • depósito de desechos radioactivos
  • repositorio de desechos radioactivos
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Record 5 1998-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Textiles
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
CONT

Light and rigid sunroofs... a composite for producing very light moulded parts with a high rigidity and bending strength. The parts are based on a polyurethane sandwich panel made of paper alveolar plate covered with a glass or natural fibres mat on both sides and pressed in heated moulds... These materials are currently used in the automotive industry for covering elements, hard tops and sunroofs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Textiles techniques
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
CONT

Toits ouvrants légers et rigides. [Ces toits sont faits] de pièces moulées très légères possédant une extrême rigidité et résistance à la flexion. La base de ces pièces est un panneau-sandwich en polyuréthanne constitué d'une plaque alvéolaire en papier recouverte de chaque côté d'un mat de fibres de verre ou de fibres naturelles [...] Ces matériaux sont actuellement utilisés dans l'industrie automobile pour les éléments d'habillage, les hard tops et les panneaux de toits ouvrants.

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
DEF

The use of lye to remove the skin of fruits for canning or for the removal of the hard outer covering of the corn kernel in the preparation of hominy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

Spanish

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Record 7 1983-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Crops
OBS

shell : the covering or outside part of a fruit or seed especially when hard or fibrous.

OBS

When the fruit is dried, the "shell" and "inner shell" look the same.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des plantes industrielles
DEF

Enveloppe charnue des fruits à noyau.

CONT

Dans la pratique, on n'appelle "brou" que le péricarpe charnu du fruit du noyer, enveloppe épaisse, dure, glabre et verte en dehors, blanche en dedans; mais, de blanche, elle devient noire quand elle subit l'influence de l'air.

Spanish

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Record 8 1983-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

thin, flat, horny or hard plates that form the covering of fishes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 9 1981-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Freezing and Refrigerating
  • Food Industries
OBS

The top covering of a floor providing high mechanical resistance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Congélation, surgélation et réfrigération
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
OBS

Couche superficielle d'un plancher de forte résistance mécanique.

Spanish

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Record 10 1977-06-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A lorica is a] hard, protective commonly tubular or vase-like external organic covering, case or shell secreted or built with agglutinated foreign material by tintinnids, thecamoebians, certain algae and other protists, and having a calcareous or siliceous composition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

La coquille [des Amphineures est] nommée aussi lorica (...)

Spanish

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Record 11 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol

Spanish

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