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Record 1 2013-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
OBS

Under the grantor-grantee or alphabetical index, pages are assigned in the index to each letter of the alphabet. As an instrument is received at the recorder's office, it is first recorded and then indexed under the name of the granting party on the appropriate page of the index. In addition, the county recorder is usually required to make notations on the grantor's page which disclose the name of the other party to the transaction, the book and page of the record where this particular transaction can be found, a description of the property, the date when the instrument was executed, the date when the instrument was filed for recordation, and the nature of the instrument. These same notations are then made as the transaction is indexed under the name of the grantee or the receiving party. After both steps have been completed, the instrument is considered to have been properly indexed.(Axelrod, Berger and Johnstone, 1971, p. 551).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

répertoire des concédants et des concessionnaires : 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 2 2007-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
DEF

The speed at which light and other magnetic waves travel through empty space.

CONT

The velocity of light is 2.9979 x 108 m/s.

CONT

The speed of light in a vacuum is an important physical constant denoted by the letter c for "constant" or the Latin word "celeritas" meaning "swiftness". It is the speed of all electromagnetic radiations, including visible light, in a vacuum. More generally, it is the speed of anything having zero rest mass.... In metric units, the speed of light is exactly 299, 792, 458 metres per second(1, 079, 252, 848. 8 km/h). The fundamental SI unit of length, the metre, has been defined since October 21, 1983, as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299, 792, 458 of a second; any increase in the precision of the measurement of the speed of light would refine the definition of the metre, but not alter the numerical value of c. The approximate value of 3x108 m/s is commonly used in rough estimates. In imperial units, the speed of light is about 670, 616, 629. 2 miles per hour or 983, 571, 056 feet per second, which is about 186, 282, 397 miles per second, or roughly one foot per nanosecond. The speed of light when it passes through a transparent or translucent material medium, like glass or air, is slower than its speed in a vacuum. The ratio of c to the observed phase velocity is called the refractive index of the medium.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rayonnements électromagnétiques
DEF

Vitesse de propagation de la lumière dans le vide.

CONT

La vitesse de la lumière est 2.9979 x 108 m/s.

Spanish

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Record 3 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien

Spanish

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Record 4 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
  • Mathematics
OBS

[The letter "j" in "X in. j"] is called a subscript or index.... Summation notation... is used to denote the sum of all the "X in j"s.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
  • Mathématiques
OBS

Désormais, on supprimera l'indice de sommation «i» sous le signe sigma quand il n'y aura pas de confusion possible.

Spanish

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