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Record 1 2016-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vegetable Crop Production
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

Most tomato varieties belong to three groups... The large-fruited beef tomatoes... the medium-sized... and the small-fruited cherry tomatoes... Other varieties, of lesser importance, have fruits elongated, plum-shaped and rather square(for canning), striped, or hollow like sweet peppers, and in various other colours from white to pale pink, green and yellow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production légumière
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
DEF

Variété de petite tomate de forme oblongue.

OBS

Au Canada, la tomate oblongue est vendue sous l'appellation tomate italienne. Elle est aussi connue sous le nom de tomate prune.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Producción hortícola
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 2 2012-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
DEF

A fixed structure constructed from hollow, square or rectangular girders made of steel or light alloy, or reinforced or prestressed concrete, or timber.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
CONT

Pont à poutres caissons. C'est un type de pont très en faveur à l'étranger, mais qui est assez peu employé en France parce qu'il exige une fabrication méticuleuse, donc onéreuse (...) Ces ponts sont constitués par un ou plusieurs caissons de hauteur constante ou variable, composés de tôles soudées, raidies longitudinalement et transversalement.

OBS

poutre caisson : poutre à section transversale fermée et évidée.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
DEF

Device enabling a larger surface area to be obtained without making large and unwieldy stacks of flat membrane. One only has to mould the membrane into a tube and then incorporate a number of such membrane tubes into a cartridge; liquid can then be recirculated through the cartridge and sufficient pressure for ultra-filtration obtained by restricting the flow downstream of the cartridge. In some systems the membrane may be moulded round a plastic rod which is grooved to produce a thin channel effect; it has been suggested that this is more efficient in reducing concentration polarization than a hollow membrane tube. The cartridge system has been used in various large-scale units with membrane areas of up to several square feet.

OBS

Molecular weight cut-off range from 500 to 300,000.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
CONT

On préfère généralement installer un filtre par fermenteur plutôt que de filtrer dans une seule unité tout l'air distribué ensuite sur l'ensemble de l'atelier de fermentation. Ces filtres, ainsi que différents matériels de préfiltration, sont distribués par PALL-FRANCE. [...] D'autres firmes [...] proposent des cartouches à membranes plissées de ce type.

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hotel Industry (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hôtellerie (Généralités)
DEF

Disposition d'une salle de conférence dans un hôtel. Les tables sont disposées autour de la salle en carré ou en rectangle, avec un vide au centre.

OBS

L'Institut du tourisme et de l'hôtellerie, nous a expliqué que cette disposition est plus souvent de forme rectangulaire que carrée.

Spanish

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Record 5 2008-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ceremonial and Traditions (Military)
DEF

... a battlefield service in which drums in the shape of a pyramid form an altar and are draped in colours.

CONT

In past centuries, religious worship on the battlefield often took place as a ’Drumhead Ceremony’. Soldiers would parade on three sides of a hollow square. On the fourth side, drummers would pile their drums in the shape of a pyramid to make an altar, draped with regimental colours.

Key term(s)
  • drum-head ceremony

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cérémonial et traditions (Militaire)

Spanish

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Record 6 1992-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Processing
DEF

A hollow wrought product of uniform cross-section with only one enclosed void along its whole length, and with a uniform wall thickness, supplied in straight lengths or in coiled form.

OBS

The cross-section are in the shape of circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, equilateral triangles or regular polygons.... Hollow products with a square, rectangular, equilateral triangular or regular polygonal cross-sections, which may have corners rounded along their whole length, are also to be considered as tubes, provided the inner and outer cross-sections are concentric and have the same form and orientation.

OBS

Term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation des métaux
DEF

Produit creux corroyé de section transversale constante avec un seul creux fermé sur toute sa longueur et dont les parois ont une épaisseur constante, livré en longueurs droites ou enroulé.

OBS

Les sections transversales peuvent se présenter sous forme de cercle, d'ovale, de carré, de rectangle, de triangle équilatéral ou de polygone régulier (...) On considère également comme tubes les produits creux de section transversale carrée, rectangulaire, triangulaire équilatérale ou polygonale régulière, qui peuvent présenter des angles arrondis sur toute leur longueur, pour autant que les sections transversales intérieure et extérieure soient concentriques et aient la même forme et la même orientation.

OBS

Terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 7 1990-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Conferences and Colloquia: Organization
Key term(s)
  • hollow square setup
  • hollow square set up

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de congrès et de conférences
OBS

Congrès.

OBS

Source(s) : Lexique de la terminologie d'ISTC [Industrie, Sciences et Technologie Canada] - Tourisme (avril 1993).

Spanish

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Record 8 1988-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
CONT

Two tragic collapses of sophisticated designs of trapezoidal-box-girder bridges, resulting in the death of 4 men and 35 men, respectively, occurred during erection in 1970. The first of these was the Milford Haven Bridge ...

OBS

Box girder : A hollow, square or rectangular girder made of steel or light alloy, or reinforced or prestressed concrete, or timber.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
OBS

Plusieurs accidents, qui ont fait de nombreux morts, se sont produits à une époque récente, pendant l'exécution de ponts métalliques (Vienne, sur le Danube, 1969; Milford Haven, en Angleterre, 1970; ...). Il s'agissait le plus souvent de ponts en caissons.

Spanish

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Record 9 1988-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Construction Techniques
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
CONT

In Germany, where post-World War II reconstruction provided engineers with a unique opportunity to display skill and originality in the field of bridge design, it has been found that for general road bridges of under 200 m. span the steel box girder is usually most economical.

OBS

Box girder or box beam : A hollow, square or rectangular girder made of steel or light alloy, or reinforced or prestressed concrete, or timber. Steel box girders caused alarm in the early 1970s because two bridges which were being built then collapsed....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques de la construction métallique
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts

Spanish

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Record 10 1981-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hoisting and Lifting
DEF

A hollow girder or beam with a square or rectangular cross section.

CONT

The box girders can be of narrow type with an outrigger platform or they can be made of the wide type box which is arranged to contain the control gear and sometimes the travel gear.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Levage
DEF

Poutre formée de caissons soudés dont les semelles et les âmes sont tenues en place par des voiles transversaux renforcés par des nervures longitudinales.

OBS

La charpente se compose de deux larges poutre-caissons en tôle d'acier portant le rail sur lequel roule le chariot-treuil.

Spanish

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