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Record 1 2026-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
  • Wireless and Mobile Communications
CONT

As mobiles became immensely popular and their data communication features became stronger, mobile banking became the next alternate channel. It was internet banking suitably modified and downsized to suit the mobile platform. Now that many phones have larger screens and full-fledged browsing features, the distinction between internet banking and mobile banking is likely to diminish.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
  • Communications sans fil et mobiles
DEF

Service proposé par une banque, permettant à ses clients d’effectuer des opérations à partir d’un moyen de communication portable.

OBS

service bancaire mobile : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

OBS

banque sans fil : désignation et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 28 juillet 2015.

Key term(s)
  • services bancaires mobiles

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Husbandry
CONT

Swedish Ardennes are 15. 2-16 hands high. Their small head is heavy with smallish eyes, they have a neck that is short and thick, a short back, a wide chest, and shoulders that are well muscles. Swedish Ardennes have an immensely muscular compact body, short legs, and little feathering. They are black, brown bay, and chestnut. They can withstand extreme variations in climate, are very strong, are exceptionally eager workers, and can survive on frugal keep. Swedish Ardennes are also known for their longevity, sweet and lively temper, and overall good health.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des chevaux
CONT

L'ardennais suédois est une race de cheval de trait. [...] Il s'agit d'un cheval de gros trait. Il mesure de 1,55 m à 1,62 m au garrot. Il est d'apparence trapue et inélégante, cependant il est robuste et très docile. Il bénéficie de plus d'une longue espérance de vie. Sa tête est imposante, ses yeux, petits. Son encolure est courte et large. Son dos est court, et son épaule très puissante. Ses membres sont courts et forts. La queue et la crinière sont plus touffues que chez l'ardennais, en revanche, en raison des fortes chutes de neige, ses fanons sont moins fournis. Il est généralement de robe bai, et parfois alezan ou rouan.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
CONT

Oil and gas platforms. Since 1981 Gleitbau Salzburg has left its mark on reinforced concrete platform construction projects around the world.... The extreme conditions [in the North Sea projects in the 70s] forced them to create innovations which today are the foundation for geo-metrically complicated and immensely high building structures.... The services include... the heavy lifting technique assists in the raising of pre-cast concrete elements or fabricated steel platforms into both the drilling and utility shafts, onto monolithically cast support brackets.

CONT

After a significant gas leak on a gas platform it was found that drawings did not reflect the actual plant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
CONT

L'Office Canada-Nouvelle-Écosse des hydrocarbures extracôtiers [...] a permis à ExxonMobil de consentir à une firme américaine [...] un gros contrat de construction d'une plate-forme de forage gazier [...]

CONT

L'industrie côtière, une industrie primaire à la base, [...] englobe [aussi] la fabrication de plate-formes de forage pétrolier et gazier et la construction de navire hauturiers de ravitaillement [...]

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme de forage gazier

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of National Programs (Canadian)
  • Sports (General)
OBS

Consultations with the Canadian sport community determined that alternative dispute resolution would have an immensely positive impact on the culture of sport in Canada. In response, the Government of Canada put in place the interim ADRsportRED program until such time as the permanent Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada is established.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes nationaux canadiens
  • Sports (Généralités)
OBS

Des consultations avec la communauté sportive canadienne ont permis de constater que la résolution extrajudiciaire des différends aurait un impact extrêmement positif sur la culture sportive au Canada. En réponse à cette constatation, le gouvernement du Canada a mis sur pied le programme provisoire ADRsportRED, avec l'intention de le laisser en place jusqu'à l'établissement permanent du Centre de règlement extrajudiciaire des différends du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 5 2000-12-21

English

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

When the two half arches were complete there remained a gap of a few centimeters to be closed... by letting the retaining cables out gradually until the two halves met, a 20-cm.-diameter pointed steel peg or spigot fitting in a hole to center the girders accurately for bolting together. The method of letting down the immensely heavy bridge halves gradually is a simple process known as fleeting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Period Costumes (Museums and Heritage)
  • Men's Clothing
CONT

Petticoat breeches. Immensely wide in the leg and pleated or gathered on to a waistband, falling like a divided skirt to the knees or just above... Always trimmed with ribbon loops at the waist and usually also down the outer side of the legs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Costumes anciens (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
  • Vêtements pour hommes
DEF

Culotte dont les jambes très amples, attachées par le bas avec des rubans, forment une jupe.

OBS

Elle est portée sur des chausses bouffantes.

CONT

La rhingrave était une ample culotte qui tombait droit comme un jupon; mais la doublure se nouait autour des genoux par un cordon dans une coulisse.

Spanish

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Record 7 1996-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
  • Production (Economics)
  • Production Management
CONT

Sloan, the successor to General Motors’ founder William Durant, created the prototype of the management system that Ford's immensely more efficient factory system demanded.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise
  • Production (Économie)
  • Gestion de la production
CONT

Sloan, successeur du fondateur de General Motors William Durant, inventa un système de gestion répondant aux besoins du système de fabrication si efficace imaginé par Ford.

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Management (General)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

Another consequence of fast-paced change, in both our external and internal environments, is that it is no longer possible to understand immensely complex problems or devise sufficiently interdependent solutions without ringing together groups of people who spend much more of their time understanding their evolving environment and whose advice must be based on constantly updated knowledge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion de l'entreprise (Généralités)
  • Traduction (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 9 1992-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cytology
CONT

... living organisms are so immensely complex that the amount of genetic information transmitted seems out of all proportion to the minute size of the cell nucleus, which is the repository of genetic information.... We therefore come to another axiom in the molecular logic of life : Genetic information is encoded in units that are submolecular in dimensions...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cytologie
CONT

(...) les organismes vivants sont si complexes que la quantité d'information génétique transmise semble hors de proportion avec la taille limitée du noyau cellulaire dans lequel repose l'information génétique. (...) Nous voyons donc apparaître un autre axiome de la logique moléculaire de la vie : l'information génétique est codée dans des unités qui ont des dimensions inframoléculaires (...)

Spanish

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Record 10 1977-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronomy
OBS

An extension of the [earth's] axis would appear to intersect the sky at points in line with the North and South Poles of the earth but, because of the nearly infinite size of the celestial sphere, immensely far away. As the earth rotates about its polar axis, the sky appears to turn in the opposite direction about those "north" and "south celestial poles".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronomie
OBS

L'axe du monde coupe la surface de la sphère céleste en deux points qui sont le "pôle céleste Nord (...)" et le "pôle céleste Sud (...)".

Spanish

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Record 11 1977-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronomy
OBS

An extension of the [earth's] axis would appear to intersect the sky at points in line with the North and South Poles of the earth but, because of the nearly infinite size of the celestial sphere, immensely far away. As the earth rotates about its polar axis, the sky appears to turn in the opposite direction about those "north" and "south celestial poles".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronomie
OBS

L'axe du monde coupe la surface de la sphère céleste en deux points qui sont le "pôle céleste Nord (...)" et le "pôle céleste Sud (...)".

Spanish

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Record 12 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems
OBS

To enjoy oneself immensely

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue
OBS

S'amuser royalement (STYCOM 40)

Spanish

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Record 13 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems
OBS

Sir Carte... was immensely struck with Hauteville,...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue
OBS

Sir Carte... fut fortement impressionné par Haute-ville et ... (Faux amis 52)

Spanish

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