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IMPRESSED SIDE [5 records]

Record 1 2003-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Display Technology
CONT

The ElectroPhoretic Image Display (EPID) is a non-emissive display concept based on the transport of charged pigment particles in a colloidal suspension. The charged pigment particles are transported by means of an applied electric field. This phenomenon is commonly known as electrophoresis.

OBS

Two plates with electrodes are placed opposing each other, leaving a certain distance in between by using spacers, and a suspension composed of a dyed solvent and suspended charged pigment particles is enclosed between the plates. When a voltage difference is impressed between the two electrodes... the pigment particles migrate to one side and then either the light color of the pigment or the dark color of the dyed solvent can be seen according to the polarity of the impressed voltage difference.

Key term(s)
  • EP display

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'affichage (Ordinateurs)
CONT

[...] le HP 110 devait être à l'origine le premier ordinateur à utiliser la technologie d'affichage électrophorétique développée (en partie) dans les laboratoires de recherche de Xerox à Palo Alto (Californie). Cette nouvelle technologie, faiblement dissipatrice en termes de consommation électrique [...], devrait être proposée ultérieurement.

Spanish

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Record 2 1997-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coins and Bank Notes
  • Numismatics
  • Coining
DEF

The side of a coin opposite to the obverse, that on which the head is impressed; it bears the design, date, and face value of the coin.

OBS

tails: slang.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pièces de monnaie et billets de banque
  • Numismatique
  • Monnayage
DEF

Côté d'une pièce de monnaie opposé à l'avers portant l'effigie ou le motif principal; y figure habituellement le motif, la date et la valeur nominale de la pièce.

Spanish

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Record 3 1990-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
  • Propulsion des aéronefs

Spanish

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Record 4 1977-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

[Bivalves of the Family Desertellidae have a shell that is] medium-sized, equivalve subequilateral, subtrigonal, but with [a] posterior end [that] is high and subtruncate; length and height [are] almost equal; [they have a] blunt diagonal ridge delimiting [a] relatively narrow posterior area; [the] shell wall [is] thick; [the] unbones [are] moderately well inflated and incurved, slightly opisthogyrous; [they have] no lunule or esiutcheon; [the] ligament [is] external, opisthodetic; [the] nymph [is] short and thick. Each valve [has] two teeth diverging from [the] beak, LV anterior and RV posterior almost equal in size, very stout and prominent, bluntly pointed, received in deep recesses; LV posterior and RV anterior [are] also almost equal, less prominent than [the] other two, each elongated and close to [the] margin, and each received in [a] recess between [the] major tooth of [the] opposite valve and [the] margin adjacent to it; [the] dentition of [the] valves thus [appears] identical when [the] interior of [the] shell is viewed; [the] adductor scars [are] subequal, placed rather dorsally, [the] posterior ones [are] almost superficial, each with [a] small accessory scar above it, [the] anterior ones [are] slightly impressed, each with [a] low buttress-like thickening of [the] shell wall on its posterior side in some specimens, and [a] small accessory scar on its posteroventral side; [the] pallial line [is] entire. [The] surface [has] fine concentric striae. [The] original shell structure(whether nacreous or not [is] unknown. [The] habitat [is] nonmarine.) "L Cret.(?ALB.) ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[Les damellibranles de la famille des Desortellidae ont une] coquille équivalve, inéquilatérale, [au] bord antérieur allongé [et au] bord postérieur court. [Les] crochets [sont] opposés. [Ils ont une] carène limitant du côté postérieur une aréa plus petite que le flanc. [L'] ornementation [est] faite de fines stries concentriques et de quelques stries rayonnantes. [Ils ont une] charnière identique sur les deux valves et composée d'une fossette parallèle au bord de la coquille, d'une dent triangulaire très saillante, d'une fossette triangulaire de même forme que cette dent, d'une dent lamellaire. Ces quatre éléments sont disposés en allant du bord postérieur vers le bord antérieur sur la valve droite, et du bord antérieur vers le bord postérieur sur la valve gauche. [Ils ont une] empreinte palléale entière; deux empreintes des adducteurs; [et une] trace des insertions des muscles d'attache du pied et du sac viscéral.

Spanish

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Record 5 1977-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Brachiopods of the] Family Skenidiidae(...) [are] Subpyramidal, with [an] open delthyrium and chilidium; [the] ventral muscle field [is] contained in [a] free or supported spondylium; [the] brachiophores [are] long, slender, commonly with bases convergent on [a] high median septum and united laterally to socket plates or to hinge plates containing sockets; [the] cardinal process is simple or differentiated into [a] shaft and crenulated myophore; [the] dorsal adductor field [is] shield-shaped, impressed on either side of [the] septum; [the] mantle canal systems [are] rarely preserved. L. Ord-U. Dev.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Brachiopodes de la] Famille des Skenidiidae (...) [sont de] Petite taille; subpyramidale; [ils ont un] spondylium.

Spanish

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