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Record 1 2021-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
CONT

A teardrop penetration consists of a departure from an IAF [initial approach fix] on an outbound course, followed by a turn toward and intercepting the inbound course at or prior to the IF [intermediate fix] or point.

Key term(s)
  • tear drop entry
  • tear drop penetration

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
CONT

L'entrée décalée consiste à quitter le repère d'approche initiale sur une trajectoire en éloignement, puis à effectuer un virage vers la trajectoire en rapprochement et à intercepter cette trajectoire au repère d'approche intermédiaire ou avant celui-ci.

OBS

intégration décalée; entrée décalée : désignations uniformisés par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) – Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
CONT

Begin the initial descent when you are established on a parallel or intercept heading to the approach course and outbound from the IAF [initial approach fix].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
CONT

Amorcer la descente initiale dès que l'aéronef est établi sur une parallèle ou un cap d'interception relativement à la trajectoire d'approche et en éloignement par rapport au repère d'approche initiale.

OBS

cap d'interception : désignation uniformisée par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) – Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
  • Waterproofing (Construction)
  • Exterior Covering Materials
CONT

Every roof has to start somewhere, and that somewhere is at the appropriately named starter shingle(also called starter strip). Starter shingles are the initial shingle products installed on the roof, just before the first course of the finish shingles, which will comprise the visible parts of the roof.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
  • Étanchéité (Construction)
  • Revêtements extérieurs
CONT

Pour réaliser une toiture, il faut bien commencer quelque part, et ce point de départ se nomme justement « bardeau de départ » (ou « bande de départ »). Les bardeaux de départ sont le premier produit de bardeau qu’on installe sur un toit, juste avant le premier rang de bardeaux qui en constitueront le revêtement final.

Spanish

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Record 4 2019-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • News and Journalism (General)
DEF

[The] use of software programs to generate articles, reports and other types of content.

CONT

This technological innovation, known as automated journalism, is a relatively new phenomenon in the area of computational journalism. Automated journalism refers to the process of using software or algorithms to automatically generate news stories without human intervention—after the initial programming of the algorithm, of course. Thus, once the algorithm is developed, it allows for automating each step of the news production process, from the collection and analysis of data, to the actual creation and publication of news. Automated journalism—also referred to as algorithmic or, somewhat misleadingly, robot journalism—works for fact-based stories for which clean, structured, and reliable data are available.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Information et journalisme (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

An event that comes between the initial event in a sequence and the end result, thereby altering the natural course of events that might have connected a wrongful act to an injury.

French

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

cause intervenante : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Courses
  • Emergency Management
  • Police
Universal entry(ies)
ICIR
classification system code, see observation
OBS

[This course] is designed to provide [training for] police officers who are required to assume initial command of police operations [during] critical incidents.

OBS

ICIR: a Canadian Police College course code.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de cours
  • Gestion des urgences
  • Police
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
ICIR
classification system code, see observation
OBS

[Ce cours] vise à enseigner aux agents de police qui sont appelés à prendre en charge le commandement initial des opérations policières [à la suite d'un incident critique.]

OBS

ICIR : code de cours du Collège canadien de police.

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-06-16

English

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

An event that comes between the initial event in a sequence and the end result, thereby altering the natural course of events that might have connected a wrongful act to an injury.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Sector Budgeting
DEF

An initial grant and an annual maintenance grant authorized to each Department of National Defence school with an enrolment of over 300 high school pupils, for musical instruments and related equipment required for the instrumental music course which is included in the curriculum prescribed for the school.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
DEF

Subvention initiale et subvention annuelle d'entretien octroyées à chaque école du ministère de la Défense nationale qui compte plus de 300 élèves, pour l'achat d'instruments de musique et de matériel connexe nécessaires au cours de musique inscrit dans le plan de l'école.

Spanish

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Record 9 2015-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Courses
  • Training of Personnel
Universal entry(ies)
M404
classification system code, see observation
OBS

This course provides the knowledge and practical skills needed to manage a contract for services. Participants will improve their ability to work with consultants in a manner that allows them to manage risk and ensure that services rendered meet the requirements of the initial agreement.

OBS

M404: a Canada School of Public Service course code.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de cours
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
M404
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Ce cours permet d'acquérir les connaissances et les compétences requises pour gérer un marché de services. Les participants amélioreront leur gestion du travail des experts-conseils de manière à gérer les risques et à veiller à ce que les services fournis soient conformes à ce qui est énoncé dans l'entente initiale.

OBS

M404 : code de cours de l'École de la fonction publique du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 10 2014-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operations Research and Management
CONT

If the initial and the terminal points of a course coincide, a circuit is formed. If we consider lines rather than arcs... the analogue of a circuit is a cycle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche et gestion opérationnelles
CONT

Un cycle est une chaîne qui se referme sur elle-même.

Spanish

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Record 11 2013-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Training of Personnel
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

ARTech released the first course at distance-which you can already get through the Internet-and the initial version of the new training Web site where you can find all the information regarding GeneXus courses that ARTech provides.

CONT

Web-based training may be compared to current implementations of classroom and computer-based training (CBT) in quality of training outcomes. But what advantage would a training institution has in establishing a web-training site versus producing a CD-ROM or client/server-based training system?

CONT

The Web-based training site contains built-in methods for participants’ progress reports on their learning experiences but does not provide feedback and evaluation concerning their thoughts and learning experiences.

OBS

training website; web training site; web-training site; web-based training site: The Translation Bureau recommends in its revised 2013 Linguistic Recommendation that “web” not be capitalized when it is part of a compound, whether the compound is written as two words or one, with or without a hyphen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

L'école a mis à l'essai www.blackboard.com, un site Web de formation gratuite qui permet aux enseignants de publier du matériel didactique, des discussions de classe et même des examens en ligne. Les enseignants utilisent ce site pour plusieurs cours d'anglais et pour un cours de droit. Blackboard.com a été complété avec des adresses de courrier électronique gratuites pour les étudiants, des calendriers, etc., par l'entremise de www.schoolmaster.net.

OBS

site Web de formation : Le Bureau de la traduction préconise dans sa Recommandation linguistique révisée en 2013 la majuscule initiale lorsque «Web» est employé après un nom qu’il qualifie. Il est toujours invariable.

OBS

site de formation sur le Web : Le Bureau de la traduction préconise dans sa Recommandation linguistique révisée en 2013 la majuscule initiale lorsque «Web» est employé seul, en tant que nom.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Teorías y métodos pedagógicos
  • Capacitación del personal
  • Internet y telemática
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Record 12 2012-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operations Research and Management
  • Mathematics
OBS

A sequence of arcs where the terminal point of one arc is the initial point of the subsequent one, is called a course. If we consider lines rather than arcs, the analogue of a course is a chain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche et gestion opérationnelles
  • Mathématiques
DEF

Séquence d'arcs dans un graphe.

Spanish

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Record 13 2012-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
CONT

A patient admitted to the hospital with an infection may develop during the hospitalization a superinfection with another organism. Often this superinfection is with a more virulent or drug-resistant organism.

OBS

drug resistance : the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of a drug that are lethal to most members of its species. Primary drug resistance refers to initial infection by a resistant organism; secondary drug resistance to resistance that develops during the course of therapy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
DEF

Microorganismes qui survit, et éventuellement se reproduit, en présence d'un médicament censé le détruire.

Key term(s)
  • microorganisme résistant au médicament

Spanish

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Record 14 2011-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
DEF

Chemical reaction in which the rate of decrease of concentration of component A with time is proportional to the concentration of A.

CONT

In the course of a first-order reaction, the half-time t1/2 is the time required for one-half of the initial reactant to be consumed.... In first-order reactions the half-time is independent of the initial concentration of substrate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
DEF

Réaction dont la vitesse est exactement proportionnelle à la concentration d'un réactif. Soit une réaction fort simple dans laquelle une substance A se transforme en substance B. A tout instant chaque molécule A a une égale probabilité de subir la transformation, la vitesse globale de la réaction dépend donc de la concentration de A.

CONT

Les réactions d'ordre un jouent un grand rôle dans les phénomènes physiques et biologiques. [...] Ainsi la désintégration radioactive répond à une cinétique de premier ordre, la croissance bactérienne est également un phénomène exponentiel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencias biológicas
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Record 15 2010-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Course Titles (Armed Forces)
  • Military Training
OBS

The training phases "Initial Assessment Period" and "Basic Officer Training Period" have merged into one course called "Basic Military Officer Qualification. "

OBS

Information provided by the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de cours (Forces armées)
  • Instruction du personnel militaire
OBS

Les phases d'instruction «Période d'évaluation initiale» et «Période d'entrainement élémentaire des officiers» ont été fusionnées pour former un seul cours qui s'intitule «Qualification militaire de base des officiers».

OBS

Renseignement obtenu de l'École de leadership et de recrues des Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 16 2008-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Offences and crimes
DEF

Force used that exceeds what reasonably appears to be necessary to beat off an attack. This is a question of fact and depends on such variable factors as the degree of violence offered, the nature of the weapons used by the assailant or his previous conduct and reputation for violence.

CONT

A defendant who is liable because he has used excessive force may, of course, have a counter-claim against the plaintiff for his initial attack and thus scale down the latter's recovery.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Infractions et crimes

Spanish

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Record 17 2008-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Semiconductors (Electronics)
  • Strength of Materials
CONT

Ageing effect. The efficiency of amorphous silicon solar cells drops when exposed to light until it has reached a stable value(at around 10 to 30 percent of its initial value) over the course of its service life. The efficiency of "cascading" or "tandem" cells helps here considerably.

Key term(s)
  • aging effect

French

Domaine(s)
  • Semi-conducteurs (Électronique)
  • Résistance des matériaux
CONT

Le silicium amorphe souffre [...] d'un effet de vieillissement lié à l'instabilité de l'hydrogène dans sa structure due aux effets de surface et aux réactions chimiques avec le milieu extérieur (H2O, CO2, ...).

Spanish

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Record 18 2008-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Aids (Psychology)
CONT

This study aimed to extend our initial analysis by examining the longitudinal diagnostic efficiency of the DSM-IV criteria for BPD [borderline personality disorder]. We used data from the CLPS [Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study] and ongoing prospective repeated-measures study designed to examine disease course and outcome among patients with PDs [personality disorders].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides au diagnostic (Psychologie)

Spanish

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Record 19 2008-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Grain Growing
CONT

[The initial] payments [to the Canadian Wheat Board] are paid to producers upon delivery of grains into the elevator system over the course of a pool period.

OBS

Term used at the Canadian Grain Commission.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie agricole
  • Culture des céréales
CONT

[Les acomptes à la livraison pour les comptes de mise en commun de la Commission canadienne du blé] sont versés aux producteurs à la livraison des céréales à grain au réseau de silos durant une période de livraison en commun.

OBS

Terme en usage à la Commission canadienne des grains.

Spanish

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Record 20 2003-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases
DEF

Infection with a second or subsequent infectious organism(e. g., bacteria) during the course of an initial infection with another organism(e. g., a virus).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines
DEF

Infection par un germe différent survenant chez un sujet déjà atteint d'une maladie infectueuse spécifique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades humanas
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Record 21 2002-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
  • Navigation Instruments
CONT

In a skidding turn, the gyro precesses towards the inside of the turn. After return on the aircraft to straight and level flight, the instrument shows a turn in the direction of the skid. In a normal turn, the gyro precesses towards the inside of the turn. The precession error is quickly corrected by the erecting mechanism.

CONT

The only really tricky part of the attitude indicator is its erecting mechanism. When power(vacuum) is first applied to the instrument, the mechanism quickly erects the gyro spindle to plumb-vertical in order to align the artificial horizon with the natural horizon. In flight, the erecting mechanism continually compensates the gyro for precession errors in order to keep it aligned throughout the course of a long flight. The design of the erecting mechanism is quite clever. In an air-driven attitude gyro, there are "pendulous vanes" suspended from pivots attached to the lower portion of the sealed gyro housing, one vane for each exhaust port. The vanes are positioned so that, when the gyro is erect, each vane half-covers its associated exhaust port. If the gyro tilts so that its axle is not plumb, the pendulous vanes shift so that one exhaust port is more-than-half-covered and the opposite exhaust port is less-than-half-covered. The resulting imbalance of discharge air exerts a force on the rotor housing at right angles to the direction of tilt, causing the gyro to precess to the erect position. As soon as the gyro is erect, the pendulous vanes return to a balanced condition to remove the precessing force. Pure magic! The erecting mechanism can erect the gyro quite quickly at initial power-up because the gyro doesn’t exhibit much gyroscopic rigidity at low rotor RPMs. Typically, the horizon bar becomes level within the first 10 or 15 seconds, and then its oscillations(caused by precessional nutation of the gyro) are damped out within a minute or so as the rotor comes up-to-speed.

Key term(s)
  • gyroscope erecting mechanism
  • gyro erecting mechanism
  • erection mechanism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
  • Instruments de navigation
CONT

Dans un virage dérapé, le gyroscope «précesse» du côté du virage. Une fois l'avion revenu au vol rectiligne en palier, l'instrument indique un virage dans la direction du dérapage. Dans un virage normal, le gyroscope «précesse» du côté du virage. Le mécanisme de redressement du gyroscope corrige rapidement l'erreur de précession.

CONT

Description d'un Épervier [drone] [...] d. Le gyroscope vertical: Dans ce cas, les deux axes, ROLL et PITCH sont terminés par les potentiomètres qui détectent les écarts de positions angulaires du corps par rapport aux horizons roll et pitch. Les mécanismes d'érection ne sont prévus que pour maintenir la verticalité parfaite de la masse en rotation.

OBS

Horizon gyroscopique [...] La verticalité de l'axe de toupie [delta] est approximativement assurée par un érecteur (mécanique, électro-mécanique, pneumatique) produisant une raideur en quadrature de signe convenable.

Key term(s)
  • mécanisme de redressement du gyroscope

Spanish

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Record 22 1995-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meteorology
DEF

Fraction of the drops which are on an initial collision course with other drops and which actually collide with them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Météorologie
DEF

Proportion des gouttes qui sont sur un parcours de collision avec d'autres gouttes et qui entrent effectivement en collision avec elles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Meteorología
DEF

Proporción de las gotas que realmente chocan con respecto a aquellas que inicialmente pudieran hacerlo.

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Record 23 1988-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Mathematics
CONT

Compulsive reflection is one way of ensuring that the higher-level axioms in a multilevel database are use in determining the course of lower-level inference. Although compulsive reflection is more expensive than universal subgoaling is, it is more reliable. Our definition of compulsive reflection assumes that, in addition to the metalevel axioms defining the desired baselevel behavior, the initial database contains an appropriate clause to seed its metalevel reasoning. The clause is obtained by applying the function newmeta to the initial baselevel database.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Mathématiques
OBS

Voir "réflexion" en mathématique et "compulsif" en psychologie.

Spanish

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Record 24 1987-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
OBS

Canada Diseases Weekly Report.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
OBS

Rapport hebdomadaire des maladies au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 25 1985-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Administration
DEF

This specification describes those basic duties and tasks, together with their associated levels of skill and knowledge, which are common to all officers of the classification. It normally includes those requirements up to the initial employment level where the officer is considered classification qualified. In essence this specification constitutes the basis of the classification training course.(302. 4. a).

Key term(s)
  • basic level classification specification

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration militaire
DEF

Description des fonctions et des tâches de base, le niveau de compétence et de connaissances correspondant y étant indiqué, qui sont communes à tous les officiers d'une classification. Elle comprend d'ordinaire les exigences requises jusqu'au niveau d'emploi initial, lorsque l'officier est jugé qualifié à l'égard d'une classification. Elle correspond essentiellement au cours d'instruction pour la classification. (302.4.a).

Spanish

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Record 26 1985-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Search and Rescue (Paramilitary)
OBS

Of a surface vessel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche et sauvetage (Paramilitaire)

Spanish

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Record 27 1984-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport Personnel and Services
CONT

To establish initial competency on each Company aircraft type, a pilot crew member must successfully complete a standard conversion course on the type, including :...-Type rating check, which includes PPC' s [pilot proficiency checks] and instrument rating checks.(This is normally conducted by a M. O. T Air Carrier Inspector.).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Personnel et services (Transport aérien)
OBS

Dans la Loi sur l'aéronautique (C.22 - Transporteurs aériens utilisant des avions petits porteurs) on dit que l'épreuve de contrôle de compétence doit être subie sous l'autorité d'un inspecteur du ministère des Transports. De plus, dans l'annuaire téléphonique du Gouvernement canadien, on retrouve un service qui s'appelle "Inspection des transporteurs aériens". On peut donc déduire que l'inspecteur responsable des épreuves de contrôle de compétence est un inspecteur des transporteurs aériens.

OBS

Le terme "inspecteur des transporteurs aériens" a été uniformisé par le CUTA opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 28 1984-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cost Accounting
CONT

Most of the Agency's programmes approved in the early seventies exceeded the initial financial envelope of 100 per cent in the course of 1979... To ensure that in future all projects are treated consistently and the assessment of cost-to-completion is performed in a uniform manner, new rules were worked out...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité analytique

Spanish

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