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HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT WEIGHT [3 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2007-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dams and Causeways
DEF

A solid masonry dam with a transverse cross section approximately triangular in shape, which depends on its own weight for stability against overturning or horizontal movement.

OBS

Its mass is such that the horizontal water thrust on the upstream face is transmitted to a point within its foundation, usually within the middle third.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Barrages et chaussées
DEF

Barrage en béton, à profil triangulaire, résistant à la poussée de l'eau par son poids.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Presas y calzadas elevadas
DEF

Construcción voluminosa que opone al empuje del agua su propio peso.

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Record 2 2005-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boring (Machine-Tooling)
CONT

[In] a floor type horizontal boring machine with travelling headstock... The weight of the headstock and eventually of attachments to it(e. g. a milling head) changes its movement with respect to the base of the column so that the axis of the spindle is variably inclined to the horizontal.

OBS

Normally only "headstock" is used, although this is more generic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alésage (Usinage)
CONT

Sur une machine à montant fixe prise comme exemple [...] le mécanisme de coupe, comprenant moteur et boîte des vitesses, est incorporé au chariot porte-broche ainsi que les différentes commandes.

OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 3 1982-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Shipbuilding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions navales

Spanish

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