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INDEPENDENT MINE [8 records]

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Record 1 2025-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Land Mines
DEF

A non-blast-resistant, independent mine that is actuated by physical contact or influence.

OBS

first-generation mine: designation and definition officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel.

OBS

first generation mine: designation officially approved by the Engineering Terminology Working Group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines terrestres
DEF

Mine autonome qui n'est pas résistante au souffle et qui est déclenchée par un contact ou une influence physique.

OBS

mine de première génération : désignation et définition uniformisées par le Groupe d'experts en terminologie interarmées; désignation uniformisée par le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Land Mines
  • Demolition (Military)
DEF

To explode the main charge in a mine by the shock of a nearby explosion of another mine or independent explosive charge.

OBS

The explosion of the main charge may be caused either by sympathetic detonation or through the explosive train and/or firing mechanism of the mine.

OBS

countermine: term and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines terrestres
  • Destruction (Militaire)
DEF

Faire exploser la charge principale d'une mine sous l'effet du choc causé par l'explosion d'une autre mine ou d'une charge explosive, située à proximité.

OBS

Cette explosion peut entraîner celle de la charge principale soit par sympathie, soit en provoquant le fonctionnement de la chaîne ou du mécanisme de mise à feu de la mine.

OBS

contreminer : terme et définition normalisés par l'OTAN; terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie et par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Minas terrestres
  • Destrucción (Militar)
DEF

Proceso de hacer explotar la carga principal de una mina mediante un golpe o la explosión cercana de otra mina o carga explosiva independiente. La explosión puede realizarse por simplatía o mediante una cadena de explosivos que da fuego al mecanismo de la mina.

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Record 3 2008-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The modern doctrine of strict liability for the escape of dangerous substances had its genesis in 1866, in the leading case of Rylands v. Fletcher. The defendant millowners decided to construct a water reservoir on their land for the purpose of supplying water to their factory. On the chosen site there was a disused shaft of an abandoned mine, but owing to the negligence of the engineers, a firm of independent contractors who had been entrusted with the work, this fact was not discovered until the water broke into the staft and flooded the plaintiff's adjoining mine through communicating passages.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Containers
  • Materials Handling
OBS

reinforce: To strengthen with additional material or support.

OBS

prop : A rigid, usually independent and often auxiliary vertical support, as a timber for holding up the roof a mine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conteneurs
  • Manutention
DEF

Élément vertical de renfort de caisses et de conteneurs.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

A antenna polarization selection (transmit and receive) that maximizes the received power from a given class of scatterers.

OBS

These optimum polarization states will be related to different independent scattering mechanisms that lead to the locally best height estimation. In case of buried mine detection, it is expected to find two coherence maxima : the mine and the surface clutter(or air-ground interface). After generating the two interferograms corresponding to these optimum polarization states, one can extract the height difference between them. The resulting height difference map will exhibit some peaks at those positions where the mines are buried, whereas it will remain close to zero at those zones of the image where only a single natural surface scattering process can be found.

OBS

optimum polarization: term officially approved by the RADARSAT-2 Terminology Approval Group (RTAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télédétection
DEF

Sélection de polarisations d'antenne (émission et en réception) servant à maximiser la puissance reçue d'une classe donnée de diffuseurs.

CONT

Une polarisation optimale permet d'améliorer la force du signal pour les mesures par images de particules.

OBS

polarisation optimale : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR).

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Land Mines
DEF

An independent mine that is actuated by the passage over or the proximity of a target to it, and which may also be hardened against blast.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines terrestres
DEF

Mine autonome qui peut être durcie contre l'effet du souffle et qui est déclenchée par le passage ou la proximité d'un objectif.

OBS

mine de deuxième génération : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie.

Spanish

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Record 7 1999-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Land Mines
  • Demolition (Military)
DEF

A mine which is not controlled by the user after laying.

OBS

independent mine : term and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines terrestres
  • Destruction (Militaire)
DEF

Mine dont on ne conserve pas le contrôle après la pose ou le mouillage.

OBS

mine autonome : terme et définition normalisés par l'OTAN.

OBS

mine autonome : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des Munitions et le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie.

Spanish

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Record 8 1999-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Precious Stones (Mining)
OBS

Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, by the Canadian Institute of Resources Law (CIRL), Ottawa, 1997, 126 pages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Exploitation de pierres précieuses
OBS

Ministère des Affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien. Par l'Institut canadien du droit des ressources, Ottawa, 1997, 134 pages.

Spanish

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