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IMPRACTICABLE [13 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Law
CONT

Under Internal Revenue Service guidelines, the de minimis rule can... apply to any benefit, property, or service provided to an employee that has so little value that reporting for it would be unreasonable or administratively impracticable; for example, use of a company photocopier to copy personal documents...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit commercial
CONT

En droit de l'Union européenne, la règle de minimis concerne les aides d'État, c'est-à-dire les aides attribuées par les États membres de l'Union aux entreprises.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho mercantil
CONT

Bajo las normas impositivas estadounidenses, la regla de minimis regula el tratamiento de pequeñas cantidades de descuento en el mercado.

OBS

de minimis: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que la locución "de minimis" se aplica [...] a lo que no tiene la suficiente importancia para que la ley le preste atención.

OBS

de minimis: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que la locución latina "de minimis", propia del lenguaje jurídico, se escribe en letra cursiva y sin tilde en minimis.

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Record 2 2021-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Conduct of Military Operations
  • Land Forces
OBS

A generic term used to indicate that the terrain being analysed is not suited for movement by the type of vehicle being considered.

OBS

In the Canadian Forces, this concept is considered obsolete.

OBS

impracticable terrain : designation to be used by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conduite générale des opérations militaires
  • Forces terrestres
OBS

Expression utilisée pour indiquer que le terrain analysé n'est pas propice au movement par le type de véhicule considéré.

OBS

Dans les Forces canadiennes, cette notion est considérée comme désuète.

OBS

terrain impraticable : désignation d'usage obligatoire au ministère de la Défense nationale et dans les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Wiring (Building Elements)
DEF

A thin-walled metal raceway of circular cross section constructed for the purpose of the pulling in or the withdrawing or wires or cables after it is installed in place.

OBS

[An electrical metallic tubing] as a wall thinner than that of rigid metal conduit and an outside diameter sufficiently different from that of rigid conduit to render it impracticable for anyone to thread it with standard pipe thread.

OBS

electrical metallic tubing; EMT: term and abbreviation and definition standardized by CSA.

OBS

electrical metallic tubing; EMT: term and abbreviation officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations électriques (Éléments du bâtiment)
DEF

Canalisation métallique de section circulaire dans laquelle les conducteurs doivent être glissés [après sa mise en place].

OBS

Comparé au conduit rigide métallique, la paroi [du tube électrique métallique] est plus mince et son diamètre extérieur suffisamment différent pour qu'il soit impossible d'y faire des filets pour tuyaux ordinaires.

OBS

tube électrique métallique : terme et définition normalisés par la CSA.

OBS

tube métallique électrique; T.M.E. : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

The ship could have been sent in due course, but by the time it was ready and available the original purpose of the intended charter-party could not be fulfilled. Therefore, there was "practical" impossibility, or "frustration", even though there was no physical impossibility ... The commercial purpose of the original contract has been frustrated; to go on when the delaying act or event has concluded its effects would be to bind the parties by a new contract, in new and different circumstances.

OBS

The current trend in the United States is to abandon the very word "impossible" and "impossibility" and to use instead the terms "impracticable" and "impracticability". This change seems, morever, to be intended to widen the scope of the doctrine of discharge by supervening events.

OBS

From the standpoint of the performing party.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
CONT

[...] la résolution du contrat a pour effet de l'anéantir et de remettre les parties en l'état où elles se trouvaient antérieurement sous la seule réserve de l'impossibilité pratique [...]

OBS

Du point de vue du prestataire.

OBS

impossibilité pratique : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

A material object placed on or near a boundary line to preserve and identify the location of the boundary line on the ground. Where it is impracticable to establish a monument on or very close to a boundary line, the position of the boundary line on the ground is preserved by reference marks.(Definitions of Surveying Terms, p. 110)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

borne : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 6 2008-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
OBS

The doctrine of frustration originated in cases where performance was said to have become "impossible. "That, in itself, is something of a relative term. What is "impossible" depends partly on the current state of technology, and partly on the amount of trouble and expense to which one is prepared to go to achieve it... the current trend in the United States is to abandon the very words "impossible" and "impossibility" and to use instead the terms "impracticable" and "impracticability. "This change seems, moreover, to be intended to widen the scope of the doctrine of discharge by supervening events.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

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Record 7 2007-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
DEF

A fast imaging sequence... generally rendered impracticable by the effects of main field inhomogeneities and imperfections in the gradient waveforms.

OBS

The acronyms are often followed by the word "sequence" to make them more transparent.

OBS

FFE: term and acronym used by Philips.

OBS

FISP: term and acronym used by Siemens.

OBS

GRASS: term and acronym used by GE Healthcare

PHR

FISP sequence; GRASS sequence; FFE sequence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Imagerie par résonance magnétique
DEF

Écho de gradient rapide avec gradient rephaseur (récupération de l'aimantation transversale résiduelle) et TR [temps de répétition] << T2 (angle d'excitation petit).

OBS

Les termes sont souvent précédés du mot «séquence», ce qui permet non seulement de les rendre transparents, mais aussi de lever l'ambiguïté du genre de «FFE» et de «GRASS».

OBS

FFE : terme utilisé par la société Philips.

OBS

FISP : terme utilisé par la société Siemens.

OBS

GRASS : terme utilisé par la société GE Healthcare.

PHR

Séquence FFE; séquence FISP; séquence GRASS.

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Planning
CONT

Unless deemed by the Minister [of the Environment and Local Government of New Brunswick] to be impracticable, a regional plan shall contain(a) a statement of planning policies for the orderly economic, social and physical development of the region...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aménagement urbain

Spanish

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Record 9 2002-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

The annual lovel of support, expressed in monetary terms, provided to producers of a basic agricultural product through the application of one or more measures, the calculation of which in accordance with the AMS methodology is impracticable, other than support provided under programmes that qualify as exempt from reduction....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

d) L'expression mesure équivalente du soutien s'entend du niveau de soutien annuel, exprimé en termes monétaires, accordé aux producteurs d' un produit agricole initial par l' application d' une ou plusieurs mesures, dont le calcul conformément à la méthode de la MGS est irréalisable, autre que le soutien accordé au titre de programmes qui remplissent les conditions requises pour être exemptés de la réduction ....

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

[...] Nivel anual, expresado en términos monetarios, de ayuda otorgada a los productores de un producto agropecuario de base mediante la aplicación de una o más medidas cuyo cálculo con arreglo a la metodología de la MGA no es factible, excepto la ayuda prestada en el marco de programas que puedan considerarse eximidos de la reducción [...]

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Record 10 1996-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Shipbuilding
CONT

Model experiments lend themselves to comparatively inexpensive and rapid investigations of the effect on speed and power due to changes in shape and dimensions which would be impracticable if attempted on full-sized ships.

OBS

Model basins ... are found in practically all shipbuilding countries of the world. There are at present some thirty-five model-testing stations with a total of forty-eight basins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Constructions navales
CONT

La condition première, dans les essais sur maquette, est la similitude géométrique : maquette et prototype, de tailles différentes, doivent avoir la même forme. Des considérations expérimentales limitent pourtant cette similitude géométrique.

Spanish

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Record 11 1985-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems
OBS

if it would be impracticable to make the repairs; s’il est à peu près impossible d’effectuer des réparations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue
OBS

D18

Spanish

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Record 12 1982-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport
OBS

(...) "step" or increased gradients should be resorted to only when it is impracticable to follow standard slope criteria,(...) Under this criterion no negative slope is permitted in the outermost position of the system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien
OBS

On ne devrait avoir recours à [des] décrochements ou à ces augmentations de pente que lorsqu'il est impossible de respecter les critères de pente normalisés (...) En vertu de ce critère, aucune pente négative n'est admise sur la partie la plus éloignée du dispositif.

Spanish

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Record 13 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
CONT

your ideas are impracticable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
CONT

vos idées sont irréalisables.

Spanish

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