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Record 1 2025-01-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Explosives and Pyrotechnical Materials (Industries)
CONT

A primer pop(squib load) happens when the cartridge does not contain any gunpowder. The firearm will discharge the primer without the usual noise or recoil. This may have enough force to push the bullet out of the case, but the bullet may lodge in the barrel. If another bullet is fired, the barrel may rupture and cause possible injury.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Explosifs et artifices (Industries)
CONT

Un coup d'amorce [...] survient lorsque la cartouche ne contient aucune poudre. Le coup de feu n'a pas le bruit ou le recul habituel. L'explosion de l'amorce peut avoir suffisamment de puissance pour pousser la balle à l'extérieur de la douille, mais elle peut rester coincée dans le canon. Si une autre cartouche est tirée, le canon peut éclater et cela peut causer des blessures.

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
DEF

The ability of a research design to represent the true causal relationship between an intervention and an effect in the particular circumstances of the research.

OBS

If the internal organization of a study leads to distortion in the estimation measurement, that measurement lacks internal validity. This is what happens when, for example, a person is weighed using a defective scale. As with a well-calibrated scale, an etiological study must be free of measurement-distorting internal defects. These defects may be encountered at three stages in the study : the subject selection, information-gathering and analysis stages.

OBS

internal validity: term and definition standardized by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Glossary English Editorial Board and the Translation Bureau.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche scientifique
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
DEF

Capacité d’un plan de recherche à représenter la véritable relation de cause à effet entre une intervention et un effet dans les circonstances particulières de cette recherche.

OBS

Si l’organisation interne d’une étude entraîne une distorsion dans la mesure d’estimation, alors cette mesure manque de validité interne. C’est ce qui se produit, par exemple, lorsqu’on évalue le poids avec un pèse-personne défectueux. Comme le pèse-personne bien calibré, une étude à visée étiologique doit être exempte de défauts internes qui entraînent une distorsion de la mesure. Ces défauts peuvent se rencontrer à trois étapes de l’étude : à l’étape de la sélection des sujets, à celle de la collecte de l’information et à celle de l’analyse.

OBS

validité interne : terme et définition normalisés par l'Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) et le Bureau de la traduction.

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plate Tectonics
DEF

A convergent or active plate margin.

OBS

Sometimes an entire plate can disappear if the plates’ leading edge is being consumed in a subduction trench faster than new crust is being added at the ridge on its trailing edge. When this happens, the ridge slowly moves toward the trench and the whole plate is eventually drawn down into the mantle, causing a global rearrangement of other plates and their borders.

OBS

Contrast with trailing edge.

OBS

leading edge: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique des plaques
OBS

Une fosse étroite et profonde existe tout le long de la bordure où une plaque commence à s'enfoncer sous l'autre.

OBS

partie frontale d'une nappe; bord externe d'une nappe : termes en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 4 2009-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Vulcanology and Seismology
CONT

If sufficiently hot when deposited, the particles in an ignimbrite may weld together, and the deposit is transformed into a "welded ignimbrite, "made of eutaxitic lapilli-tuff. When this happens, the pumice lapilli commonly flatten, and these appear on rock surfaces as dark lense-shapes, known as fiamme. Intensely welded ignimbrite may have glassy zones near the base and top, called lower and upper "vitrophyres, "but central parts are microcrystalline("lithoidal").

OBS

Many ignimbrites are loose, unconsolidated deposits, but some exhibit welding, giving the ignimbrite the texture of a solid rock mass, hence the terms commonly used to describe these examples: welded tuff and welded ashflow.

OBS

welded ignimbrite: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Volcanologie et sismologie
CONT

Ignimbrites soudées en conditions sous-aquatiques : l'exemple du Viséen des Vosges du Sud (France).

OBS

ignimbrite soudée : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 5 2005-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electronic Defects and Failures
  • Electronic Circuits Technology
CONT

A framing error occurs when an incorrect stop bit is found, or if there are too few stop bits. This happens most often when the baud rates between the communicating devices differ. The data will have a tendency to become skewed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Défectuosités et pannes (Électronique)
  • Technologie des circuits électroniques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Defectos y fallas electrónicos
  • Tecnología de los circuitos electrónicos
DEF

Error motivado por el fallo de un dispositivo receptor para identificar correctamente los bits que constituyen un carácter.

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Record 6 2003-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Cinematography
CONT

Automatic Loop Setter. If your film has a torn perforation or a poor splice, it may cause your projector to lose its loop. When this happens you will hear a noticeable clicking sound and your picture will flutter on the screen. Simply press down the Upper Loop Former and immediately release, this will automatically reset the loop without stopping the projector or interrupting your show.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Cinématographie

Spanish

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Record 7 2001-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atomic Physics
  • Physics
CONT

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. An odd aspect of Quantum Mechanics is contained in the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle(HUP). The HUP can be stated in different ways, let me first talk in terms of momentum and position. If there is a particle, such as an electron, moving through space, I can characterize its motion by telling you where it is(its position) and what its velocity is(more precisely, its momentum). Now, let me say something strange about what happens when I try to measure its positions and momentum. In the Quantum Mechanical world, the idea that we can measure things exactly breaks down. Let me state this notion more precisely. Suppose a particle has momentum p and a position x. In a Quantum Mechanical world, I would not be able to measure p and x precisely. There is an uncertainty associated with each measurement, e. g. there is some dp and dx, which I can never get rid of even in a perfect experiment!!!. This is due to the fact that whenever I make a measurement, I must disturb the system.(In order for me to know something is there, I must bump into it.) The size of the uncertainties are not independent, they are related...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique atomique
  • Physique
CONT

Commençons par le principe d'incertitude d'Eisenberg : Il affirme qu'on ne peut pas connaître avec précision à la fois la position et la vitesse d'une particule. [...] Si l'on ne peut pas connaître sa position et sa vitesse, c'est parce que qu'une particule quantique n'étant pas ponctuelle, n'a pas à la fois une position et une vitesse définies (c'est un autre univers). Les objets quantiques admettent tout un spectre de valeurs pour la position et la vitesse. Cette limite ne porte pas sur la précision des mesures; elle porte sur la validité des concepts classiques pour une particule quantique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Física atómica
  • Física
CONT

Estipula el principio de indeterminación de Heisenberg que, cuanto más corta sea la duración de un estado, más incierta será su energía.

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Record 8 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue
OBS

Guide du traducteur (p. 34)

Spanish

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