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Record 1 2019-07-23

English

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

An internal puncture marked by two small holes caused by the tube being squeezed against the rim.

OBS

It results from riding into an object too hard for the air pressure in the tube. Also called a snakebite.

French

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

La crevaison par pincement consiste à venir pincer la chambre entre le sol et la jante. La jante fait alors 2 trous caractéristiques dans la chambre, que l'on appelle parfois "morsure de serpent" [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ruedas y neumáticos (Vehículos automotores y bicicletas)
  • Ciclismo
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Record 2 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
  • Facilities and Equipment (Rubber)
DEF

A cylindrical steel tube, either nitrided to resist wear or fitted with a special hard alloy liner, which forms the housing around the extruder screw and contains the plastic material as it is conveyed through the extruder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
  • Installations et équipement (Caoutchouc)
CONT

Le fourreau de l'extrudeuse est l'enceinte cylindrique à l'intérieur de laquelle tournent la ou les vis. La partie arrière du fourreau comporte une ouverture de chargement [...] Dans la solution la plus ancienne, un corps en acier Martin ou en fonte sphéroïdale comporte un chemisage intérieur en acier allié nickel-chrome trempé ou en acier nitruré. [...] Aujourd'hui, le système du corps monobloc est à peu près universel. On utilise soit un acier de nitruration [...], soit un acier allié de construction nickel-chrome revêtu, par centrifugation, d'un alliage à haute résistance à l'usure [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Worms and Related Organisms
Universal entry(ies)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vers et organismes apparentés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

D'après GDEL.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Illumination Engineering
CONT

Light produced by an electronic display has to be of adequate intensity, often vaguely described as its "brightness". A more scientific term is luminance in candels per square metre(cd/m2). Visual perception of a pattern depends crucially on contrast. This becomes very noticeable when the controls are adjusted on a CRT [cathode-ray tube] display. Characters may become hard to distinguish and may be lost in the background luminance when the controls are wrongly set.

OBS

cd/m2: cd/m2

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éclairagisme

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Luminotecnia
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Record 5 2007-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Effects of Heat (Energy Transfer)
  • Water Heaters and Softeners (Household)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
CONT

The problem of boiler scale. Practically all equipment coming in contact with hard water is affected by scale. Scale causes damage, inconvenience and serious maintenance problems. Scale reduces heat transfer, causes overheating of the tube metal which results in rupture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Effets de la chaleur (Transfert de l'énergie)
  • Chauffe-eau et adoucisseurs d'eau
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)
DEF

Dépôt calcaire à l'intérieur des chaudières à vapeur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Efectos del calor (Traspaso de energía)
  • Calentadores y suavizadores de agua
  • Hornos y calderas (Calefacción)
DEF

Costra calcárea que se forma en las calderas de vapor.

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Record 6 2003-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
DEF

A passage for conveying flame and hot gases around or through water in a steam boiler.

CONT

Steel boilers are fabricated into one assembly of a given size and rating, usually by welding. The heat exchange surface past the firebox usually is an assembly of vertical, horizontal, or slanted tubes. The tubes may be firetube (flue gas inside, heated fluid outside) or watertube (fluid inside).

CONT

The firing tubes are copper clad on the water side. The 2 in. OD by number 13 gauge tubes are formed by telescoping a. 030 in. hard phosphorized copper tube over a. 065 in. seamless steel tube and drawing over a mandrel and through a die for a tight bond. Long tube life is positively assured under the most aggressive conditions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)
DEF

Chacun des tubes dans lesquels circulent les gaz chauds dans une chaudière.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hornos y calderas (Calefacción)
DEF

Tubería que une un horno a una caldera con su chimenea.

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Record 7 2002-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
  • Infantry
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

High resolution image transfer from the launcher sights to the cupola is by hard glass optics via a sight path protected by a flexible tube of Kevlar nylon armour...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
  • Infanterie
  • Missiles et roquettes
CONT

Le transfert de l'image des viseurs à la coupole, sans dégradation notable du pouvoir séparateur, s'effectue par un système optique classique; le canal de transmission de l'image est protégé par un tube souple en nylon balistique Kevlar [...]

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pipes and Fittings
CONT

Assemble the joint by inserting the tube into the fitting making sure that the tube is hard up against the stop of the socket.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tuyauterie et raccords
CONT

Pour faire le joint, insérer l'extrémité du tube dans le raccord, jusqu'à l'épaulement du manchon.

Spanish

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Record 9 1993-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pipes and Fittings
  • Metal Quenching
CONT

Hard temper and semi hard temper copper tube is furnished in 12 and 20 foot lengths.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tuyauterie et raccords
  • Trempe (Métal)
CONT

Les tubes écrouis durs et écrouis demi-durs sont fabriqués en longueurs de 12 et 20 pi.

Spanish

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Record 10 1993-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Quenching
  • Pipes and Fittings
OBS

Various types of copper tubing are available to the plumbing trade in three different tempers: (i) hard temper (hard drawn), (ii) semi hard temper (light drawn), and (iii) soft temper (annealed).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Trempe (Métal)
  • Tuyauterie et raccords
CONT

Il existe plusieurs types de tubes en cuivre utilisés en plomberie, qui peuvent être trempés de trois façons différentes : (i) trempe dure (tube écroui dur), (ii) trempe demi-dure (tube écroui demi-dur), (iii) trempe douce (tube recuit).

Spanish

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Record 11 1982-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copper and Copper Alloys (Metallurgy)
OBS

Temper used only where there is need for a tube as hard or as strong as is commercially feasible for the size in question.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cuivre et alliages du cuivre (Métallurgie)
OBS

État des tubes possédant la plus grande dureté et la plus grande résistance à la tension possible commercialement dans les dimensions considérées.

Spanish

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Record 12 1981-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electronics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électronique

Spanish

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