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INDIRECT OBJECT [6 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Sonar and Underwater Detection (Military)
CONT

Indirect echoes are caused when some of the outgoing radar energy is reflected from an object close to the scanner such as a funnel or mast. The echo may return by the same path or directly to the scanner. [A] false echo will appear(usually intermittently) on the display at the correct range...

OBS

indirect echo: The plural forms are "indirect echoes" and "indirect echos."

Key term(s)
  • indirect echoes
  • indirect echos

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Sonar et détection sous-marine (Militaire)
CONT

Échos indirects [:] Une cible proche est généralement extraite directement, mais elle peut également être reçue comme un reflet d'une surface importante et plate. Le radar affiche alors deux échos ou plus sur l'écran, chacun à une distance différente. La fonction [de suivi des cibles] peut acquérir et suivre le faux écho s'il est détecté [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
CONT

A private trust has as its object the erection, maintenance or preservation of corporeal property or the use of property appropriated to a specific use, whether for the indirect benefit of a person or in his memory, or for some other private purpose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé
CONT

La fiducie d'utilité privée est celle qui a pour objet l'érection, l'entretien ou la conservation d'un bien corporel, ou l'utilisation d'un bien affecté à un usage déterminé, soit à l'avantage indirect d'une personne ou à sa mémoire, soit dans un autre but de nature privée.

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cost Accounting
DEF

One of several techniques used to assign indirect and common costs to a cost object.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité analytique
DEF

Dans l'établissement du coût de revient d'un produit ou d'un service, méthode choisie pour répartir les coûts indirects ou les coûts communs entre les objets de coût.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
CONT

An alternative to introspection and Watsonian behaviorism was Gestalt psychology in which thought was seen as an organizational process by which a problem was reorganized or solved. Solfgang Köehler's use of the "Unweg" or detour problem is an example. In it, an animal or child must secure a desirable object by taking an indirect route, the direct route having been blocked.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

Object Identification Services include those services for the recovery of location and descriptive information required to access an object. These services are required where objects are not accessible directly because of their definition through queries or other indirect references.

OBS

The term(s) and supporting text have been taken from a document presented as a working draft of the Technical Report on Multimedia and Hypermedia: Model and Framework.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)

Spanish

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