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Record 1 2025-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Household Cleaning and Maintenance
  • Applications of Automation
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Robot vacuums work best in smaller homes and normal-sized apartments... They handle hard floors and short carpets best, though they can get stuck now and then. Robot vacuums need a good motor for powerful suction, decent battery life, a brush roll, and enough smarts to be self-sufficient.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de nettoyage et d'entretien (Arts ménagers)
  • Automatisation et applications
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Un aspirateur robot se compose de deux composants indispensables et complémentaires : l'aspirateur d'un côté, sa base de chargement de l'autre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aparatos domésticos de limpieza y mantenimiento
  • Automatización y aplicaciones
  • Inteligencia artificial
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Record 2 2020-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taps and Plumbing Accessories
DEF

A porous or screen medium used ahead of equipment to filter out harmful solid objects and particles from a fluid stream ...

CONT

Intake strainers are devices attached to the drafting end of a hard intake(suction) to keep debris from entering the fire pump. Such debris can either damage the pump or pass through it to plug the nozzle.

OBS

strainer: designation officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Robinetterie et accessoires
DEF

Filtre métallique de forme sphérique ou cylindrique placé à l'extrémité d'un tuyau d'aspiration (pour y arrêter les corps étrangers).

CONT

Les crépines sont des dispositifs assujettis aux tuyaux d'aspiration semi-rigides qui servent à empêcher les débris de se rendre à l'autopompe. Ces débris peuvent endommager la pompe ou engorger les lances.

OBS

crépine : désignation uniformisée par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Grifos y accesorios de fontanería
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Record 3 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pipes and Fittings
  • Fire-Fighting and Rescue Equipment
DEF

Hose reinforced against collapse due to atmospheric pressure and used for drafting water into fire pumps where a partial vacuum is created in the pump, causing atmospheric pressure to push water through the hose upward into the pump.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tuyauterie et raccords
  • Matériel de secours et de lutte (incendies)
DEF

tuyau d'incendie semi-rigide servant à alimenter par dépression en eau les pompes à incendie.

CONT

Les tuyaux d'aspiration conduisent l'eau de la nappe d'eau (exceptionnellement, d'une bouche ou d'un poteau à débit insuffisant) à l'engin-pompe.

OBS

aspiral, pluriel aspiraux.

OBS

Cahier Plomb tétraéthyle, 9.1.3.3. (coll. Enviroguide); Dictionnaire de la prévention des incendies.

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fixed Rescue Facilities (fire)
CONT

To speed the process of getting the water into the apparatus, a dry hydrant is installed so that the engine company can connect to it and rapidly draft water through it, rather than connecting and deploying several sections of hard suction hose into the water for the draft operation...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations fixes de secours (incendies)

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire-Fighting and Rescue Equipment
  • Fire Prevention
  • Search and Rescue (Paramilitary)
DEF

A flexible rubber hose reinforced with a steel core to prevent collapse from atmospheric pressure when drafting ...

OBS

[A hard intake hose is] connected between the intake of a fire pump and a water supply and must be used when drafting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de secours et de lutte (incendies)
  • Prévention des incendies
  • Recherche et sauvetage (Paramilitaire)
DEF

Tuyau en caoutchouc souple qui contient un renforcement en acier pour prévenir tout effondrement du tuyau dû à la pression atmosphérique lors de l'aspiration [...]

OBS

[Un tuyau semi-rigide] relie une prise d'une pompe à incendie et l'alimentation en eau et doit être utilisé lors de l'aspiration.

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dredging
DEF

Mechanical unit mounted at the end of a suction pipe. The unit rotates and breaks up material to facilitate removal by a suction dredge.

CONT

This is the cutterhead, and it breaks up hard and cohesive material so it can be pumped up the suction intake.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dragage
DEF

Unité mécanique qui est montée sur le tuyau d'aspiration, avec comme fonction de désagréger le sol par un mouvement rotatoire, ce qui permet ainsi l'aspiration des produits de dragage.

CONT

Le désagrégateur fragmente les matériaux durs et cohésifs en morceaux qui sont pompés par la tête aspiratrice.

Spanish

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Record 7 1997-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
CONT

Back-up pads for double action and rotary sanders are manufactured in hard, medium and soft types, with or without suction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
CONT

Les tampons d'appoint pour les ponceuses à mouvement alternatif et rotatif existent en version dure, demi-dure et douce, avec ou sans orifices d'aspiration.

OBS

Ces tampons pour ponceuses sont fabriqués par la société Dualflex Company Limited, Oldcastle, Ontario.

Spanish

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