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HORIZONTAL CELL [15 records]

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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meteorology
DEF

A katabatic wind, it is formed at night by the radiational cooling along mountainsides.

CONT

... at night the air in contact with the mountain is cooler than farther from the land mass and so the cooler air sinks along the slope producing the mountain breeze.

CONT

mountain breeze ... As the slopes become colder than the surrounding atmosphere, the lower levels of air cool and drain to the lowest point of the terrain. It may reach several hundred feet in depth, and extreme cases, attain speeds of 50 knots or greater. It blows in the opposite direction of a valley breeze.

CONT

During the night, the air along the mountain slopes begins to cool quickly because of longwave radiation loss... As the air cools, it becomes more dense and begins to flow downslope causing a mountain breeze. Convergence of the draining air occurs at the valley floor and forces the air to move vertically upward. The upward movement is usually limited by the presence of a temperature inversion which forces the air to begin moving horizontally. This horizontal movement completes the circulation cell system. In narrowing terrain, mountain winds can accelerate in speed because of the venturi effect. Such winds can attain speeds as high has 150 kilometers per hour.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Météorologie
DEF

Vent catabatique soufflant la nuit et aux premières heures après le lever du Soleil, le long des pentes, des montagnes vers les vallées ou les plaines.

CONT

Brise de pente [...] De nuit [...] l'air se refroidit au contact du sol et a tendance à descendre le long des pentes vers le fond de la vallée où s'instaure un courant général vers le bas de la vallée, c'est la brise d'amont.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Meteorología
DEF

Corriente de aire que desciende a lo largo de una ladera o cauce por efecto de la gravedad, cuando su densidad es mayor que la de las capas de aire contiguas situadas al mismo nivel.

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Record 2 2014-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Materials
  • Terra Cotta
CONT

Back-up tile is intended for use in both bearing and non-bearing walls which will be faced with brick or facing tile.... The facing is bonded to the backup by some type of structural bond, and the loads are supported by both.... Back-up tile... is available in both vertical and horizontal cell units.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de maçonnerie
  • Terres cuites
CONT

Emplois. Ils sont identiques à ceux des briques creuses courantes de grand format.

CONT

Mise en œuvre des briques creuses ordinaires.

OBS

Emploi en remplissage d'ossature [...] On utilise [...] des blocs [...] de remplissage [...]

OBS

Le terme générique français «brique creuse» correspond au terme générique américain «hollow clay tile». Voir la fiche consacrée à cette notion.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • The Eye
DEF

A layer of neuronal synapses in the retina of the eye.

OBS

It consists of a dense network of synapses between dendrites of horizontal cells from the inner nuclear layer, and photoreceptor cell inner segments from the outer nuclear layer. It is much thinner than the inner plexiform layer, where amacrine cells synapse with retinal ganglion cells.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Oeil
CONT

La structure réceptrice de la lumière est contenue dans le feuillet interne de la rétine. Ce feuillet est composé de sept couches successives adossées à l’épithélium pigmentaire [...] Dans la couche plexiforme externe, les cellules photoréceptrices réalisent des synapses avec les cellules bipolaires.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Mosses and Related Plants
CONT

Cell specialization occurs within the protonema to form two types of filaments, a horizontal system of reddish brown, anchoring filaments, called the caulonema, and upright, green filaments, the chloronema.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Mousses et plantes apparentées
DEF

Partie rouge brunâtre du protonéma filamenteux des mousses qui donnera naissance aux gamétophores, formée de cellules cylindriques, à parois transversales obliques, contenant peu de chloroplastes.

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Mosses and Related Plants
CONT

Cell specialization occurs within the protonema to form two types of filaments, a horizontal system of reddish brown, anchoring filaments, called the caulonema, and upright, green filaments, the chloronema.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Mousses et plantes apparentées
DEF

Partie du protonéma constituée de cellules cylindriques courtes, à parois transversales perpendiculaires, contenant de nombreux chloroplastes.

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Sun (Astronomy)
CONT

In 1962 a fundamentally new mode of gas motion in the solar atmosphere was discovered(...). This mode was most visible as a horizontal motion organized in large cells with the gas velocity directed outward from the center of each cell at about 0. 5 km/sec.(...) It was then hypothesized that these large cells were convective in nature, in the sense of hot gas rising at the center of a cell and cool gas falling at the periphery. This phenomenon is known as the "supergranulation".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soleil (Astronomie)
CONT

S'il est raisonnable d'interpréter la supergranulation comme un aspect de la convection subphotosphérique, comme la granulation, il faut bien reconnaître que l'état actuel de la théorie de la convection ne permet d'expliquer ni les dimensions ni les temps caractéristiques des deux systèmes, et encore moins leur nette séparation.

DEF

Structure en supergranules d'une couche subphotosphérique d'une profondeur de 1 000 km.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Equipment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel et équipement (Recherche scientifique)

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Equipment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel et équipement (Recherche scientifique)

Spanish

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Record 9 2010-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printed Circuits and Microelectronics
CONT

The context for a neural signal may be the local average light intensity-as it is when a photoreceptor signal is balanced against the signal from the horizontal cell network at a triad synapse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits imprimés et micro-électronique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Circuitos impresos y microelectrónica
CONT

Las células horizontales-la segunda capa-establecen conexiones con fotorreceptores y células bipolares a través de la sinapsis triádica.

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Record 10 2003-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Outfitting of Ships
  • Containers
CONT

One of the four upright components making up the guidance system enabling containers to be carried in a vertical column in the ship, each container supporting the one above it; providing horizontal restraint, the cell guides hold the containers in position.

OBS

On deck, this system permits loading of up to four tiers of containers without lashings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armement et gréement
  • Conteneurs

Spanish

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Record 11 1999-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

A narrow groove in the transverse(i. e. horizontal) wall of a ray cell along the junction with the tangential(i. e. end) wall.

OBS

In radial section, an indenture appears as a depression in the transverse wall where the tangential wall is inserted. Used only for conifers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Endroit aminci dans la paroi transversale (horizontale) d'une cellule de parenchyme d'un rayon au voisinage de l'arête de raccordement avec la paroi tangentielle (terminale).

OBS

En section radiale une indenture apparaît comme une dépression dans la paroi transversale à l'endroit où s'insère la paroi tangentielle [...] [Employé] seulement pour les bois des conifères.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Xilología (Estudio de la madera)
  • Explotación forestal
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Record 12 1998-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Eye
DEF

The thick triangular or club-shaped ending of a retinal cone cell, which synapses with the bipolar and horizontal cells in the outer plexiform layer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeil
DEF

Pied d'un cône localisé dans la couche plexiforme externe de la rétine.

OBS

Source MVISI-F : Le nouveau dictionnaire de la vision par Michel Millodot, Médiacom Vision Éditeur, 1997.

Spanish

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Record 13 1998-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cytology
  • The Eye

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cytologie
  • Oeil
DEF

Cellule de la rétine située dans la couche granuleuse interne, elle établit des communications entre cônes et bâtonnets.

OBS

Source MVISI-F : Le nouveau dictionnaire de la vision par Michel Millodot, Médiacom Vision Éditeur, 1997.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Citología
  • Ojo
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Record 14 1997-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
  • Silviculture
DEF

A special type of apparently empty upright ray cell of approximately the same height as the procumbent ray cell and occurring in indeterminate horizontal series that are generally interspersed among the procumbent cells.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
  • Sylviculture
CONT

Cellules palissadiques. Ce sont, dans les rayons hétérogènes, des cellules courtes, dressées ou carrées, quelquefois de même hauteur que les cellules couchées qui les accompagnent, mais beaucoup moins longues radialement. Elles sont disposées en séries horizontales. [...] les cellules palissadiques, sans contenu vacuolaire coloré, ont seulement le protoplasme et un noyau.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Xilología (Estudio de la madera)
  • Silvicultura
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Record 15 1977-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aluminum Production
  • Smelting (Metal Processing)
CONT

The major portion of aluminum produced in Canada in 1972 was processed in either horizontal or vertical stud Söderberg production cell.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production de l'aluminium
  • Fusion (Transformation des métaux)
CONT

Le procédé Soderberg (...) appliqué dès 1926 à l'aluminium consiste à charger de la pâte crue de coke de pétrole (...) dans une gainé de tôle de fer qui enserre l'anode unique de la cuve (...). Des goujons verticaux en acier assurent à la fois l'arrivée du courant anodique et le soutien mécanique de l'anode (...).

Spanish

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