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HISTORICAL USE [29 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

Interest costs incurred during the time necessary to bring an asset to the condition and location for its intended use and included as part of the historical cost of acquiring the asset.

DEF

The conversion of deferred interest payment into new debt instruments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Conversion de paiements d'intérêts différés en nouveaux titres de créance.

CONT

Des sociétés telles que les sociétés pétrolières et gazières engagées dans l'exploration capitalisent une grande partie de leurs frais d'intérêt au lieu de les imputer lorsqu'elles les occasionnent. [...] Les sociétés de services publics ont aussi recours à la capitalisation de l'intérêt pendant les périodes de construction.

OBS

Comparer avec «anatocisme».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Conversión de pagos de interés diferidos en nuevos instrumentos de deuda.

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Record 2 2018-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Investment
  • Heritage
  • Arts and Culture (General)
DEF

The Legacy Fund component [of the Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage program] provides funding for community-initiated capital projects that restore, renovate or transform an existing building or exterior space(such as a statue, community hall, monument, garden or work of art) intended for community use. Eligible capital projects are those that commemorate the 100th anniversary or greater(in increments of 25 years), of a significant local historical event or personality.

OBS

Canadian Heritage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Patrimoine
  • Arts et Culture (Généralités)
DEF

Le volet Fonds des legs [du programme Développement des communautés par le biais des arts et du patrimoine] offre une aide financière aux projets d'immobilisations communautaires qui visent la restauration, la rénovation ou la transformation d'édifices existants ou d'espaces extérieurs (par exemple une statue, un centre communautaire, un monument, un achat lié à un jardin ou à une œuvre d'art) destinés à un usage communautaire.

OBS

Patrimoine canadien.

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
CONT

Rule-based event processing is addressed in [the mentioned articles. ] Several industrial event processing products use rule engines for event processing without permanent storage of events(the storage of historical event data is only optional for other purposes).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
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Record 4 2018-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anti-pollution Measures
  • Environmental Management
  • Crop Protection
CONT

Pesticide monitoring requires highly flexible field and laboratory programs that can respond to periods of pesticide application, which can sample the most appropriate medium(water, sediment, biota), are able to apply detection levels that have meaning for human health and ecosystem protection, and which can discriminate between those pesticides which appear as artifacts of historical use versus those that are in current use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures antipollution
  • Gestion environnementale
  • Protection des végétaux
OBS

surveillance des pesticides : désignation approuvée par le Comité de terminologie d'Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medidas contra la contaminación
  • Gestión del medio ambiente
  • Protección de las plantas
CONT

Monitoreo de pesticidas. Pesticidas como el DDT, dialdrin, endrin, lindane, chlordane, heptaclor y otros, pueden entrar en contacto con la microfauna del suelo acarreando la ruptura del ecosistema microbiano, lo cual incidirá en la producción de los cultivos. Por consiguiente es necesaria la detección oportuna de estos componentes, a través de muestras del suelo, obtenidas mediante calicatas específicamente construidas para tal fin y su correspondiente análisis de laboratorio.

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Record 5 2017-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Fine Arts (General)
  • Performing Arts (General)
OBS

This program works to address historical barriers to media arts production by Aboriginal artists and encourages the use of media arts as a tool for artistic impression.

Key term(s)
  • Aboriginal Media Arts Programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Beaux-arts (Généralités)
  • Arts du spectacle (Généralités)
OBS

Ce programme vise à réduire les obstacles qui, traditionnellement, ont nui à la réalisation d'œuvres d'arts médiatiques par les artistes autochtones et encourage l'utilisation des arts médiatiques comme moyen d'expression artistique.

Spanish

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Record 6 2017-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
CONT

UN Minutes will be a series of 60-second "history moments" for viewing as public service announcements(PSA's) modeled along the lines of the very successful CRB Foundation/Canada Post Heritage Series. These PSAs will use graphics, music, historical photographic material, stock footage, and live action to tell the stories of Canadian men and women who have made important contributions to the United Nations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
OBS

Il s'agit d'une série de «moments historiques» de 60 secondes chacun, présentés sous forme de communiqués d'intérêt public (CIP) et s'apparentant à la série de vignettes du patrimoine créées par la Fondation CRB et Postes Canada, série qui a connu beaucoup de succès. Dans ces CIP, on utilisera des graphismes, de la musique, des photographies historiques, des films d'archives et des scènes prises sur le vif pour raconter l'histoire de Canadiens et de Canadiennes qui ont contribué de façon importante à l'œuvre des Nations Unies.

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

[The guardian by nature] derived from the "natural tie" of parent and child but was limited in scope to the heir alone. The guardian by nature was first the father and only upon his death the mother. A father was not guardian by nature to daughters, younger sons, or other nonpropertied children because they could not inherit from him.

OBS

guardian by nature : in historical use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

tuteur naturel; tutrice naturelle : sens historique.

OBS

tuteur naturel; tutrice naturelle : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

The guardianship of a father over his infant heir-apparent of either sex enduring until the heir attains full age.

OBS

guardianship by nature; natural guardianship : in historical use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
DEF

Tutelle de plein droit exercée par le père ou, à son décès, par la mère sur son héritier manifeste durant la minorité de ce dernier.

OBS

tutelle naturelle : sens historique.

OBS

tutelle naturelle : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 9 2014-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Methods
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
DEF

A control group made up of persons who have been observed on an occasion previous to the present one involving observation of the group of interest.

OBS

The validity of comparisons with this type of control group is suspect because the historical group is likely to differ from the current group in its composition, diagnosis, disease severity, measurement of outcomes, or other important ways that could influence the research findings. It may be feasible to use historical controls in special instances where the outcomes of a standard treatment(or no treatment) are well known and vary little for a given population.

OBS

historical control: term and definition standardized by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Glossary English Editorial Board and the Translation Bureau.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes de recherche scientifique
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
DEF

Groupe témoin formé de personnes ayant fait l’objet d’une observation antérieure à celle qui est effectuée dans le groupe étudié.

OBS

La validité des comparaisons avec ce type de groupe témoin est douteuse, car ce dernier est susceptible de différer du groupe contemporain quant à sa composition, au diagnostic, à la gravité de la maladie, à la mesure des résultats ou à d’autres éléments importants susceptibles d’avoir une influence sur les résultats de la recherche. Il est possible d’utiliser des groupes témoins historiques dans des circonstances particulières où les résultats d’un traitement standard (ou de l’absence de traitement) sont bien connus et varient peu dans une population donnée.

OBS

groupe témoin historique; groupe témoin rétrospectif : termes et définition normalisés par l'Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) et le Bureau de la traduction.

Spanish

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Record 10 2013-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

The legislation relating to registration of title is directed to the manner in which the law and practice of conveyancing are to be adapted to the use of a centrally maintained register of title to land. As the use of the register has been extended, so the successive statutes mark the historical development of a system of conveyancing, commonly known as registered conveyancing, which approached maturity as part of the real property legislation of 1925. The result of that legislation, as respects registered land, is to produce on first registration a state insured, but nevertheless private, record of entitlement to legal estates in land, such record to be kept up to date in respect of subsequent transactions in accordance with the conveyancing technique for which the legislation provides.(26 Halsbury, 4th ed., p. 404).

OBS

Registered conveyancing must be distinguished from the system of registration of assurances practiced in parts of Yorkshire which merely records conveyances and devises in a public register. (Cheshire, 11th ed., 1972, p. 103)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

régime des transports fonciers avec enregistrement : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 11 2012-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

The emergence of untaught stimulus relations following a history of reinforcement for relating the stimuli in finite ways.

CONT

Stimulus equivalence research suggested that "meanings and referents" reside not only in current circumstances of use but also in the relational networks into which historical experiences have placed verbal stimuli...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie expérimentale
  • Comportement humain
CONT

L’analyse des mécanismes d’apprentissage des réponses relationnelles s’est développée sur la base des travaux de [l'auteur] sur l’équivalence de stimulus [...] L’apport de ces travaux a été de mettre en évidence que certaines relations peuvent être apprises sans avoir été directement enseignées [...]

Spanish

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Record 12 2012-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Internet Pages
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

"In 1906, the Provincial Museum(as it was called then) was formed to "secure and preserve natural history specimens and objects of historical and ethnological interest". Since these early beginnings, the Museum's purpose has expanded to use these specimens and objects to educate communities through our programs, exhibits and research. By clearly defining our current vision, mission and mandate, we provide ourselves with a guidepost to follow when building exhibits, delivering programs and doing research"

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de pages Internet
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 13 2012-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology (General)
  • Heritage
CONT

The community events are for the purpose of ... developing collective community narratives about the impact of the IRS [Indian residential school] system on former students, families and communities ...

CONT

... creating a record or statement of community narratives including truths, insights and recommendations for use in the historical research and report, national events, and for inclusion in the research centre.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie (Généralités)
  • Patrimoine
CONT

Les événements communautaires ont les fonctions suivantes [...] établir des narrations communautaires des effets du système des pensionnats sur les anciens élèves, leurs familles et les collectivités [...]

Spanish

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Record 14 2008-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Cartography
OBS

The Canadian Cartographic Association was founded in 1975 with the aims of :-Promoting interest in maps and related cartographic materials.-Futhering the understanding and knowledge of maps by encouraging research in the field of cartography, both historical and current.-Providing for the exchange of ideas and information and for the discussion of mutual concerns, through meetings and by publications.-Advancing education in cartography and in the use of maps.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Cartographie
OBS

L'Association Canadienne de Cartographie a été créée en 1975 avec comme objectif de: - Promouvoir l'intérêt pour les cartes et le matériel cartographique associé. - Faire avancer la compréhension et la connaissance des cartes en encourageant la recherche dans le domaine de la cartographie, tant historique qu'actuelle. - Favoriser les échanges d'idées et d'informations et les discussions sur des sujets d'intérêt communs à travers des rencontres et des publications. - Favoriser l'enseignement de la cartographie et de l'utilisation des cartes.

Spanish

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Record 15 2007-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
  • Blood
CONT

... the goal of the MSBOS is to promote efficient use of blood. A typical MSBOS consists of a list of types of surgery correlated to the recommended maximum number of donor units that a physician should order to be crossmatched... Whenever a historical review of blood usage for a type of surgery suggests that blood is seldom required, the MSBOS would recommend that zero units be crossmatched, i. e., a type and screen is all that should be done.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie
  • Sang
DEF

Tableau détaillant, par type d'intervention et par chirurgien, la quantité de sang à commander en fonction des quantités réellement utilisées [...] pour des patients sans particularités.

OBS

Protocole standardisé d'ordonnance de produits sanguins en chirurgie : terme retenu par le Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.

OBS

MSBOS : abréviation anglaise en usage en français.

Spanish

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Record 16 2006-10-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Library Science (General)
OBS

The Northwestern Ontario Archivist's Association(NOAA) was established in 1988 by a small but dedicated group of individuals with interests in archival studies. Representing archives and archivists throughout the region. Our main objective is to care for the needs of archivists and users of archives. To this end we promote the preservation and public use of historical records in Ontario and hold meetings, workshops and lectures to improve archival standards and practices in the field.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Bibliothéconomie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 17 2006-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
CONT

This historical and political overview of drug use in elite sport explains the procedures and protocols of drug testing, examines ethical dimensions of doping, and the political and economic factors that influence the attempts to control doping.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
CONT

Les événements qui ont entaché le monde du cyclisme en été 1998, en particulier lors du Tour de France, ont montré que le dopage dans le domaine du sport d'élite demeure un problème irrésolu.

Spanish

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Record 18 2005-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Library Science
OBS

To provide a forum for the exchange of information and interested in archives; To encourage the development of a cooperative archival system within the province; To encourage the establishment of new archival institutions within the province; To develop and promote standard archival policies and practices; To assist members to obtain funding through granting and other funding agencies and, where necessary to, adjudicate grant requests on behalf of members; To assist in the education of archivists and others with interests in the field of archives; To represent the provincial archival community in a national archival network, and; To promote public understanding and use of archives and historical resources in the province.

Key term(s)
  • Council of Archives of Saskatchewan
  • Saskatchewan Archives Council
  • Archives Council of Saskatchewan

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Bibliothéconomie
Key term(s)
  • Conseil des archives de la Saskatchewan

Spanish

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Record 19 2004-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Types of Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
OBS

The Antique-Automobile Club of America, founded in 1935, is the world's largest automotive historical society with over 60, 000 members and 400 regional clubs worldwide. The AACA is dedicated to perpetuating the memories of early automobiles by encouraging their history, collection and use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Sortes de véhicules automobiles et de bicyclettes

Spanish

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Record 20 2003-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
OBS

ESRI was founded as Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 as a privately held consulting firm that specialized inland use analysis projects. Originally located in a historical home among orange groves, the worldwide headquarters of ESRI are now anchored in a multicampus environment in Redlands, California.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Études et analyses environnementales
Key term(s)
  • Institut de recherche pour l'environnement

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Estudios y análisis del medio ambiente
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Record 21 2002-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Toponymy
DEF

Toponym found in historical document(s) and being no more in current use.

OBS

Ex: Eboracum (for York, England); Mediolanum (for Milano, Italy); New Amsterdam (for New York, USA); Edo (for Tokyo, Japan).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymie
DEF

Toponyme relevé dans un ou plusieurs documents historiques et qui n'est plus usité.

OBS

Ex: Ville-Marie pour Montréal au Québec; Lutèce ou Lutetia pour Paris en France; Berlin pour Kitchener en Ontario.

Spanish

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Record 22 2000-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tolerances and Modular Co-ordination (Construction)
  • Strength of Materials
CONT

Maximum Service Temperature : Highest recommended continuous use temperature based upon thermal endurance and historical data.

CONT

"... intended for application where the continuous use temperature does not exceed 180 ° F" (pertaining to buildings or construction industry).

CONT

A composite with a PEEK matrix may have a continuous-use temperature as high as 250°C.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Calcul, tolérances et modulation (Construction)
  • Résistance des matériaux
CONT

Calculs et simulations numériques [...] Calculs de structures en milieu élastique, visco-élastique ou plastique [...] Comportement thermique : - Calcul des répartitions de température en régime continu.

Spanish

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Record 23 2000-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Management
CONT

Phase I determines the historical uses of, and activities on, the site to ascertain the potential for contamination or environmental hazard.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion environnementale
CONT

Au cours de la première étape, on détermine les utilisations antérieures et l'activité qui s'est déroulée sur place, afin de se rendre compte de la possibilité de contamination, de danger pour l'environnement ou des deux.

Spanish

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Record 24 1999-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Official Ceremonies
  • Construction
DEF

ceremonial building block, usually placed ritually in the outer wall of a building to commemorate dedication. Sometimes it is solid, with date or other inscription. More typically, it is hollowed out to contain metal receptacles for newspapers, photographs, currency, books, or other documents reflecting current customs, with a view to their historical use when the building is remodelled or demolished.

OBS

Until the development of modern construction, the stone was usually at a corner, possibly as the first of the foundation stones, and it was a real support. Today, to be called a cornerstone, it need not be a support, at a corner, or even in the foundation. Often it is placed ornamentally in the facade or in an interior wall or floor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cérémonies officielles
  • Construction
DEF

Bloc posé dans les fondations, portant une inscription ou contenant une médaille commémorative du début de la construction.

DEF

pierre de fondation, généralement pierre d'angle, posée solennellement. (On y pratique une cavité dans laquelle on loge un document, une médaille commémorative.)

Spanish

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Record 25 1999-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Provincial Government Programs (Canadian)
OBS

A vast amount of sea ice information is today available at the various ice services in the world. Almost all of this information is stored in the form of ice charts for operational purposes. For statistical or climatological use the chart format is however not convenient and the information needs to be digitized. This is done by assigning numerical values to the ice parameters and to read these values at given grid points on the chart. The charts prepared by the various ice services do not all contain the same number of parameters. The resolution and accuracy also vary according to the use for which the charts are intended. A large degree of flexibility has therefore to be built into the design of both code, format and grid. It should allow digitization of historical ice charts as well as current ones in order to obtain a comprehensive computer-compatible sea ice data bank which is currently updated. The SIGRID format is mainly designed to meet larger scale climate requirements but it may also be used by national services for other purposes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens

Spanish

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Record 26 1996-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Signalling and Illumination (Water Transp.)
OBS

... whereby community/municipal groups would wish to use lighthouse properties for other related activities and become more actively involved in the preservation of these sites for cultural, historical and tourism purposes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Signalisation (Transport par eau)
OBS

Source(s) : Consensus de l'équipe marine.

Spanish

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Record 27 1996-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel Management (General)
  • Military Training
DEF

The percentage (or number) of people that begin but do not complete basic training. It is calculated by dividing the number of people that complete training by the number that begin training and subtracting that value from one.

OBS

Individual Training Management Information System(ITMIS) calculates this percentage every 6 months based on historical data. If you choose not to use the percentage calculated by ITMIS, you may enter a another value.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion du personnel (Généralités)
  • Instruction du personnel militaire
DEF

Pourcentage (ou nombre) de personnes qui commencent l'instruction de base mais ne la terminent pas. On calcule ce chiffre en divisant le nombre de finissants par le nombre initial et on soustrait cette valeur de un.

OBS

Le Système intégré de gestion - Instruction Individuelle (SIGII) calcule ce pourcentage tous les six mois d'après les données historiques. Si vous ne voulez pas utiliser le pourcentage calculé par le SIGII, vous pouvez entrer une autre valeur.

Spanish

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Record 28 1996-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Law
  • Federal Laws and Legal Documents
CONT

Environmental effect means, in respect of a project,(a) any change that the project may cause in the environment, including any effect of any such change on health and socio-economic conditions, on physical and cultural heritage, on the current use of lands and resources for traditional purposes by aboriginal persons, or on any structure, site or thing that is of historical, archaeological, palaeontological or architectural significance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit environnemental
  • Lois et documents juridiques fédéraux

Spanish

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Record 29 1984-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

The use of or undue reliance upon historical forms or styles in art, esp. in architectural design.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
OBS

Synonyme d'éclectisme (surtout pour le XIXe siècle).

OBS

éclectisme : Tendance à une libre exploitation des styles du passé, qui caractérise spécialement une grande partie de la production des pays occidentaux au XIXe siècle.

Spanish

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