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INDIVIDUAL DEFENSE [11 records]

Record 1 2024-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology
  • Sociology of Communication
  • Risks and Threats (Security)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
DEF

[A] reaction that occurs when an individual uses psychological defense tactics to resist a message.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie
  • Sociologie de la communication
  • Risques et menaces (Sécurité)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Protective Clothing
  • CBRNE Operations
Key term(s)
  • chemical defense individual protective ensemble

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vêtements de protection
  • Opérations CBRNE
CONT

Qualification des FC [Forces canadiennes] en entretien d'équipement personnel [ou en entretien d']équipement de protection chimique du personnel naviguant : [...] connaissance de l'utilisation de CDIPE de l'OTAN [...]

OBS

CDIPE : sigle emprunté de l'anglais.

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
  • Weapon Systems
CONT

The command and control, battle management and communications(C2BMC) system is a software package used by the Missile Defense Agency(MDA) and combatant commands to support and integrate ballistic missile defense systems. C2BMC is responsible for integrating individual BMDS(ballistic missile defense system) components to create a global, networked, and layered missile defense apparatus capable of identifying, tracking, and intercepting ballistic missile threats in all phases of flight.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
  • Systèmes d'armes

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports (General)
  • Team Sports (General)
DEF

A style of team defense in which each player is assigned one specific opponent to guard anywhere on the court.

CONT

Defense may consist of individual guarding or team patterns. Individual man-to-man defense is both a basic style of play and the name of a team strategy in which each player is assigned to cover one opponent wherever he goes on the floor. This is the prevailing form of team defense. Also used extensively is some form of the zone defense, in which a player is given a specific area of the floor to guard and picks up any opposing player coming through it.

Key term(s)
  • individual defense
  • individual marking
  • individual guarding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports (Généralités)
  • Sports d'équipe (Généralités)
CONT

Marquage individuel. Il s'agit de confier à un défenseur [...] la surveillance et la neutralisation d'un joueur adverse [...] Le marquage se fait en restant constamment «collé» à l'adversaire [...]

OBS

Chaque joueur surveille son adversaire direct. S'oppose à «défense de zone», où chaque joueur est chargé de la surveillance d'une partie du terrain.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes (Generalidades)
  • Deportes de equipo (Generalidades)
DEF

Forma de organización defensiva donde cada jugador tiene la misión de marcar a un único adversario, previamente atribuido por el entrenador, teniendo que acompañarlo por todo el terreno de juego.

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Record 5 2004-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Intelligence (Military)
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
OBS

Operational commanders weigh the advantages to be gained by countering adversary C2 [command and control] nodes against the potential loss of intelligence from enemy signatures, radiation, or emissions, and the need to protect intelligence sources and methods. In some cases, the decision authority to destroy or degrade an adversary's higher command echelons will be held at the national strategic level. Assistance in understanding an adversary's information system and his cycle of information processing is available through the Defense Intelligence Agency's(DIA) Tailored Analytical Intelligence Support to Individual Projects(TASIP).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Renseignement (Militaire)
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Protective Clothing
  • Clothing (Military)
CONT

GUARDIAN butyl and neoprene gloves are "solution-dipped" providing unparalleled protection for their users. Tight molecular structures are the key to chemical impermeability. Our state-of-the-art microprocessors provide accurate controls every step of the way, from mixing our proprietary butyl and neoprene compounds to dipping to curing and drying, in order to attain the necessary strength ...

CONT

NBC [nuclear, biological and chemical] protection is not integrated into the standard handwear, but is provided in a separate butyl/neoprene glove issued with the NBCD IPE [nuclear, biological and chemical defense individual protective equipment].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vêtements de protection
  • Habillement (Militaire)
CONT

La protection NBC [nucléaire, biologique et chimique] n'est pas assurée par les couvre-mains ordinaires, mais plutôt par des gants en butyle et néoprène remis avec la tenue de protection individuelle pour défense nucléaire, biologique et chimique.

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • Government Accounting
CONT

Final consumption expenditure by government comprises two main categories with respect to who has produced the consumption goods and services.(a) Expenditure on individual services(e. g. education and health) and collective services(e. g. general administration and defense) produced by government itself that are supplied free or at prices that are not economically significant(other non-market output). By convention, such output is recorded as final consumption expenditure by government.(b) Expenditure on consumption goods and services purchased by government from market producers and supplied directly to households without further processing i. e. as social benefits in kind.

Key term(s)
  • government final consumption

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Comptabilité publique
CONT

La dépense de consommation finale recouvre les dépenses consacrées par les unités institutionnelles résidentes à l'acquisition de biens ou de services qui ont été utilisés pour la satisfaction directe des besoins individuels ou collectifs des membres de la communauté.

Key term(s)
  • consommation finale du gouvernement
  • dépense de consommation finale du gouvernement

Spanish

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Record 8 2001-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Basketball
Key term(s)
  • full court man-to-man press defence
  • full-court man to man press defence
  • full court man to man press defence
  • full-court man-to-man press defense
  • full court man-to-man press defense
  • full-court individual defence
  • full court individual defence
  • full-court individual defense
  • full court individual defense

French

Domaine(s)
  • Basket-ball
OBS

Chaque défenseur marque un seul attaquant en se plaçant entre lui et le panier. Le harcèlement ou pressing est l'action de serrer le marquage en tentant d'intercepter le ballon.

Key term(s)
  • défense individuelle par pressing sur tout le terrain
  • défense homme à homme par pressing sur tout le terrain
  • défense homme à homme par harcèlement sur tout le terrain

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Básquetbol
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Record 9 2001-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Basketball
Key term(s)
  • half court man-to-man press defence
  • half-court man-to-man press defense
  • half-court man to man press defence
  • half-court man to man press defense
  • half court man to man press defence
  • half court man to man press defense
  • half-court individual press defence
  • half court individual press defence
  • half-court individual press defense
  • half court individual press defense

French

Domaine(s)
  • Basket-ball
Key term(s)
  • défense individuelle par pressing à partir du centre
  • défense homme à homme par pressing à partir du centre
  • défense homme à homme par harcèlement à partir du centre

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Básquetbol
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Record 10 1987-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Transmission and Reception
CONT

A near-field testing system... allows troubleshooting on each individual element of an antenna.... the system... [is a] highly accurate way of testing many shipboard and air defense antennas.... Housed in an anechoic chamber the computer-controlled system moves a waveguide probe through measurement position as close as a few thousandths of an inch within a 19x26-foot area.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Émission et réception radio

Spanish

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Record 11 1984-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

a kind of defense mechanism whereby the individual engages in a ritual which is intended to abolish the effect of an act previously completed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
DEF

Conduite visant à effacer, en quelque sorte magiquement, un événement, un acte, une pensée. Ce mécanisme de défense psychique est fréquent chez le névrosé obsessionnel (...)

Spanish

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