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HIT CYCLE [4 records]

Record 1 2012-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports (General)
  • Team Sports (General)
  • Various Sports (General)
DEF

Three successive performances of a feat by the same individual in a contest.

OBS

The oldest use is probably in cricket, where a hat trick is the dismissal by the bowler of 3 batsmen with 3 consecutive balls, for which the bowler apparently received a bonus of new hat. The term is widely used in hockey and soccer to indicate the scoring of 3 goals by one individual in a single game. Originally the hat trick was the scoring of 3 consecutive unanswered goals, but they need not be consecutive or unanswered to qualify as a hat trick today. The term has also been used of a jockey's riding a winner in 3 consecutive races or winners in an annual race for 3 consecutive years. A notable exception to the 3 successive performances which characterize a hat trick in other sports is its occasional use in baseball to mean that a player has hit for the cycle-a single, double, triple, and home run in one game.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports (Généralités)
  • Sports d'équipe (Généralités)
  • Sports divers (Généralités)
DEF

[Réalisation d'un] joueur qui marque trois fois dans la même partie, de l'athlète qui remporte trois victoires.

OBS

Au cricket, le bowler qui mettait dehors trois joueurs de suite recevait une cape neuve. [sens : un chapeau neuf].

OBS

Au Canada, c'est le terme de hockey sur glace «tour du chapeau» que l'on utilise pour signifier un exploit semblable dans d'autres sports. L'expression s'utilise dans tout sport où des buts se comptent comme au soccer, en hockey sur glace et sur gazon, en ringuette, ou des victoires s'additionnent comme en cyclisme, en course automobile, au tennis, en natation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes (Generalidades)
  • Deportes de equipo (Generalidades)
  • Deportes diversos (Generalidades)
DEF

Hecho de que un mismo jugador marque tres tantos en un mismo encuentro.

OBS

Triplete o tripleta son alternativas en español para sustituir al anglicismo "hat-trick", [...] si se emplea la palabra inglesa "hat-trick", esta se puede escribir con o sin guion, pero siempre en cursiva o, si no se dispone de este tipo de letra, entrecomillada.

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Record 2 2011-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organization Planning
  • Federal Administration
CONT

Even where all the steps in the strategy development process are taken according to the principle of best practice, strategic plans can be required and the whole system undermined at the final review stage. The issue is how good the design and management of the planning cycle is when the business assists proposed plans hit the corporate screen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification d'organisation
  • Administration fédérale
DEF

Suite d'opérations comprises dans un processus de planification.

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Baseball and Softball
CONT

Herman, the first player ever to hit a home run in a major league night game, is the only player to hit for the cycle twice in one season--1931.

OBS

Hitting for the cycle is a baseball accomplishment characterized by a player hitting a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game, though not necessarily in that order.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Baseball et softball
CONT

Quant à moi, je me suis lâché «loose» en frappant un carrousel !

Spanish

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Record 4 1995-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astrochemistry and Cosmochemistry
  • Astronomy
  • Geochemistry
DEF

The nuclear process that powers the sun. It involves the fusion of nuclei in 3 kinds of collisions. The cycle starts for any one proton when it collides with another. This collision produces a deuterium nucleus, a neutrino that shoots off into space and a position that eventually annihilates a stray electron. Next, the deuterium nucleus is hit by another proton, producing a nucleus of helium-3 and a burst of gamma rays. The helium-3 hits another helium-3, producing a nucleus of inert helium and two protons. These 2 protons now start the proton-proton cycle over again.

CONT

Deep within the sun a series of nuclear reactions called the proton-proton chain converts hydrogen (protons) into helium by merging sets of 4 hydrogen nuclei into one helium nucleus (alpha particle).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astrochimie et cosmochimie
  • Astronomie
  • Géochimie
CONT

La chaîne proton-proton ne comporte que 3 étapes. Le premier mécanisme est celui des étoiles chaudes, le second celui des étoiles froides. Dans le soleil à la jonction des 2 types d'étoiles, les 2 régimes doivent fonctionner simultanément. Environ 638 millions de tonnes d'hydrogène sont transformés par seconde, dont 0.6 p. 100 est libéré sous forme d'énergie; à ce rythme, la perte de masse par seconde est de 3,83 millions de tonnes.

CONT

Mais il fallut attendre 1937-1938 avant que la connaissance empirique des sections efficaces de capture ait suffisamment progressé pour permettre à Von Weizsacker et à Bethe d'isoler enfin les deux réactions responsables de la génération d'énergie dans la majorité des étoiles, la chaîne proton-proton et le cycle du carbone, toutes deux transformant quatre protons en un noyau d'hélium; mais par des processus différents.

CONT

Au centre du Soleil, à 15 millions de degrés, c'est le cycle proton-proton qui est le plus efficace et contribue à l'émission d'énergie pour environ 90 p. 100.

Spanish

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