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HOLDING RING [13 records]

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Record 1 2022-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Joining Elements (Mechanical Components)
  • Water Transport
  • Commercial Fishing
DEF

A hooklike device for holding the link of a chain [that can be quickly secured or released by a sliding ring].

Key term(s)
  • sliphook

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'assemblage (Composants mécaniques)
  • Transport par eau
  • Pêche commerciale
DEF

[Crochet] articulé qui permet de dégager aisément le cordage ou la chaîne qui s'y trouve maintenu.

OBS

croc à échappement; croc de largage : désignations uniformisées par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie navale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos de empalme (Componentes mecánicos)
  • Transporte por agua
  • Pesca comercial
CONT

Es preferible que la relinga inferior y la parte del copo unidas a la pluma del copo y/o la barandilla del buque, durante el salabardeo o bombeo, lleven anillas por las que pasa un cable de acero cuyos chicotes se fijan al buque mediante un gancho de escape fácil de abrir.

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Record 2 2014-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
DEF

Wire ring holding halving becket of trawl into position.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale
OBS

Sert à maintenir en position l'étrangloir du cul-de-chalut.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Engineering

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrotechnique

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

A surgical instrument with two blades and two handles that is designed to hold small absorbent pads. It is used for blunt dissection and hemostasis.

OBS

[The sponge-holding forceps] is used for blunt dissection and hemostatis.

OBS

While sponge forceps have proven useful in a variety of new surgical techniques, their primary arena has traditionally been gynecological, surgical female sterilization, and abortion procedures. This is because sponge forceps have the ability to grip and manipulate tissue during examinations and minor surgeries with a minimum of damage and trauma. ... Surgeons consider them standard thoracic instruments when performing lung surgeries such as bullectomies. The blunt tips these devices offer prove excellent tools to grasp and collapse the lung and manipulate lung tissue for complete exploration. ... Surgeons will also use sponge-holding forceps with tonsil wipes to treat pleural abrasions, and they will often use them in colposcopy operations to hold dry or moist cotton balls. The tong-like tips of sponge forceps make them excellent tools when handling sponges, gauzes, or sensitive medical supplies.

OBS

Sponge forceps can be straight or curved. Sponge forceps can have smooth or serrated jaws. Used to atraumatically hold viscera (bowel and bladder).

OBS

There are many varieties of sponge forceps : Ballenger sponge forceps; Bergmann sponge forceps; Bozeman sponge forceps; Fletcher sponge forceps; Foerster sponge forceps; Foerster sponge holding forceps; Foerster sponge(ring) forceps; Heine sponge holding forceps; Javerts ring forceps; Rampley sponge forceps; Rampley sponge holder; Rampley sponge holding forceps; etc.

OBS

The terms sponge holder and sponge stick, even if corrects, are much more used in other domains than the medical one. Using the adjective surgical is a way to avoid any confusion: surgical sponge holder; surgical sponge stick.

CONT

The use of an extension such as a sponge forceps, rather than hands, to handle or touch contaminated items or to handle or touch sterile items.

CONT

The sponge clamp has two opposing circular jaws with transverse serrations used to hold a folded gauze sponge during preparation or blotting of the surgical are

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
CONT

L'utilisation d'un instrument, tel qu'une pince porte-éponge, plutôt que les mains, pour manipuler ou toucher du matériel contaminé ou pour manipuler ou toucher du matériel stérile.

OBS

Le terme pince porte-tampon est également utilisé pour désigner un accessoire de proctologie.

Spanish

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Record 5 2008-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

Scissors designed to cut bandage, gauze, and dressing.

OBS

[The bandage] scissors are typically strong, handheld, manual instruments with two metallic(e. g., stainless steel) blades with sharp edges that slide past each other(i. e., shearing action) ;usually one blade is longer than the other and finished in a sharp or probe-like tip while the shorter blade has a rounded tip. The blades are usually attached to handles with the proximal end conformed as a ring to facilitate holding and operating with the fingers; both parts are joined by a swivel pin in the center.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux

Spanish

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Record 6 2008-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
OBS

Instruments designed to cut objects, materials, and/or tissues using two metallic... blades with sharp edges that slide past each other(i. e., shearing action). The blades are usually attached to handles with the proximal end conformed as a ring to facilitate holding and operation with the fingers; both parts are joined by a swivel pin in the center.

PHR

Abdominal, bandage, brain, bronchus, cardiovascular, cast, dura mater, dissecting, episiotomy, eye, facelift, heart, intestinal, larynx, middle ear, nasal, postmortem, strabismus, surgical, suture, suture removal, tendon, tenotomy, thoracic, tonsil, umbilical, uterine, wound debridement scissors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
DEF

Instrument formé de deux lames métalliques à extrémité pointue ou arrondie, tranchantes sur une partie de leur longueur, réunies et croisées en leur milieu par un pivot, munies d'un anneau permettant de les manier et utilisé, en chirurgie, pour sectionner ou dilacérer.

OBS

L'anglais établit une distinction entre «surgical scissors», qui couvrent toute la gamme des ciseaux utilisés en médecine, et «operating scissors», ciseaux utilisés plus spécifiquement pour les chirurgies. Cette distinction ne semble pas exister en français, bien que «ciseaux pour la chirurgie» et «ciseaux à chirurgie» semblent avoir un sens plus restreint que «ciseaux chirurgicaux».

PHR

Ciseaux angulés, droits, courbes, mousses, pointus, tranchants, émoussés, fins, stériles, à usage unique.

Spanish

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Record 7 2006-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Jewellery
CONT

Antique sterling silver ring tree, jewelry holder/stand and tray, literally in the form of a tree. Made Birmingham, England, 1904. Measures 5 inches from end to end. Oval boat shape with sloping sides ending in gadrooned border, interspersed with repousse floral and foliate sections. The center rises up to a tree, each branch for holding a ring other trinket. The bottom forms a tray for holding bracelets, necklaces, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Joaillerie et bijouterie
CONT

Des mains en faïence, en ivoire, en bronze, des dizaines de mains posées sur les meubles, mains cendriers, main porte-plume, mains porte-bagues (Marie-Claire, 15 mai 1966, p. 174, col. 2).

OBS

Par analogie avec main porte-bagues.

Spanish

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Record 8 2003-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ports
Key term(s)
  • holding-up ring

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ports
DEF

Gros anneau d'amarrage scellé dans un mur ou un quai.

Spanish

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Record 9 2002-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Suspension (Mechanical Components)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
  • Navigation Instruments
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
DEF

A mechanical frame for a gyroscope or power unit, usually with two perpendicular axes of rotation.

CONT

The gyroscope is a rotor, or spinning wheel, rotating at high speed in a universal mounting, called a gimbal, so its axle can be pointed in any direction.

CONT

Mounted in a spacecraft ... an inertia platform provides for the measurement and subsequently, the correction of all the vehicle’s movements. The three sets of gimbal mountings allow the three gyroscopes to remain in a fixed plane ... whatever the movements of the rocket.

CONT

The gyroscope is a spinning mass mounted so that it remains on a stationary axis, or rigid in space while the ring holding it turns about it.

CONT

Basically the [inertial] navigation system comprises three components: the platform, the gyroscopic frame, and the computer... The gyroscopic frame is responsible for the stabilization of the platform. Three rate gyroscopes are fitted in the frame with their input axes mutually perpendicular... Tilting and drifting due the Earth’s rotational movement are also detected by the gyroscopic frame.

OBS

gimbal ring: term officialized by the Aeronautical Terminology Standardization Committee (ATSC) - Helicopters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Suspension (Composants mécaniques)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
  • Instruments de navigation
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
DEF

Mécanisme (dû à Cardan) permettant le déplacement angulaire relatif de deux arbres mécaniques dont les axes géométriques concourent en un même point et qui permet les mouvements dans tous les sens.

CONT

[...] les systèmes inertiels [...] font appel à une autre loi de la physique selon laquelle les objets tournant à très haute vitesse garderont leur position relative dans l'espace. En d'autres termes, si on se met à faire tourner un objet (une toupie, par exemple) à un rythme effréné, il ne tombera pas. Conséquemment, les systèmes inertiels se composent d'un minimum de deux gyroscopes, chacun desquels supporte une masse globulaire placée à l'intérieur d'un cardan. On tient cependant les appareils d'aujourd'hui en suspension électromagnétique afin d'en réduire la friction. On orientera l'un des gyroscopes à la verticale tandis que le second y sera annexé à angle droit. Un objet tournant à la quasi-verticale s'orientera à la verticale réelle grâce aux effets de gravité. [...] S'il y a inclinaison de la plate-forme, comme par exemple lors d'un virage sur l'aile, le cardan s'incline en tandem avec l'avion tandis que la masse tournante demeure à la verticale. On peut dès lors mesurer l'angle d'inclinaison.

CONT

Le gyroscope est un rotor (ou roue) qui tourne à haute vitesse à l'intérieur d'un assemblage de supports, appelé «cardan», qui permet à son axe de pointer dans toutes les directions.

CONT

Les gyroscopes 1 axe sont essentiellement constitués : d'une toupie [...]; d'un élément de cardan (anneau ou carter) reliant [delta] au boîtier de l'appareil, par l'intermédiaire de l'axe de sortie [...];

OBS

anneau de cardan : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Hélicoptères.

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
CONT

Holding the bolt in one hand, pull back on the cocking/safety ring with the other until the sear clears the rear face of the bolt...

Key term(s)
  • bolt face

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
OBS

tranche de la culasse mobile : terme se rapportant à une mitrailleuse.

Key term(s)
  • avant de la culasse mobile

Spanish

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Record 11 1985-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems
DEF

A reduction gearing arrangement in which the propeller shaft is attached to an adapter holding several small planetary gears. These gears run between a sun gear and a ring gear, either of which may be driven by the crankshaft, and the other is fixed into the nose section. Planetary gears are efficient and do not reverse the direction of rotation between the two shafts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propulsion des aéronefs
Key term(s)
  • engrenage planétaire

Spanish

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Record 12 1982-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Locks and Locksmithing
OBS

a ring for holding keys.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Serrurerie
OBS

anneau réunissant les clefs d'un trousseau.

OBS

anneau brisé (pour clefs)

Key term(s)
  • anneau brisé pour clefs

Spanish

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Record 13 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Transport
OBS

(marine compass) graduated ring holding the glass

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par eau

Spanish

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