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Record 1 2024-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Percussion Instruments
  • String Instruments
CONT

In a grand piano, the shorter inner rim and taller outer rim glued around it form the main body of the cabinet. The inner rim, whose bottom edge and inside surface are visible from under the piano, has the soundboard and pinblock attached to its top edge. The outer rim extends several inches farther and upward and, with the lid, provides an enclosure for the plate and strings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
  • Instruments de musique à cordes

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Percussion Instruments
  • String Instruments
CONT

In a grand piano, the shorter inner rim and taller outer rim glued around it form the main body of the cabinet. The inner rim, whose bottom edge and inside surface are visible from under the piano, has the soundboard and pinblock attached to its top edge. The outer rim extends several inches farther and upward and, with the lid, provides an enclosure for the plate and strings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
  • Instruments de musique à cordes

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • The Nose (Medicine)
Universal entry(ies)
DEF

A tiny bony plate occasionally found projecting from the inner wall of the ethmoid labyrinth above the bony superior nasal concha, and the mucous membrane covering the plate...

OBS

highest nasal concha; concha suprema nasi: designations found in the Terminologia Anatomica.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Nez (Médecine)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

cornet nasal suprême : désignation dérivée de la Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

concha suprema nasi : désignation tirée de la Terminologia Anatomica.

Spanish

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Record 4 2018-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Embryology
DEF

In embryology, the plate of cells at the animal pole of large-yolked eggs, which results from the cleavage of the blastodisc. Analogous cells in small-yolked eggs with total cleavage line the blastodermic vesicle, or blastocyst, comprising an outer layer of trophoblast, and an inner cell mass, both surrounding the central fluid-filled blastocyst cavity or blastocoele.

OBS

germinal membrane. The blastoderm of large-yolked eggs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Embryologie
DEF

Membrane primitive de l'embryon.

OBS

Couche cellulaire, qui correspond à la partie de l'œuf qui donnera naissance à l'embryon.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Embriología
DEF

Membrana primitiva del embrión.

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Record 5 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
OBS

the centre forward and each of the two centre [windshield] panels consist of a plate glass inner pane and an outer plate glass pane with a layer of polyvinyl butyral separating the inner and the outer glass.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
OBS

the centre forward and each of the two centre panels [of the windshield] consist of a plate glass inner pane and an outer plate glass pane with a layer of polyvinyl butyral separating the inner and outer glass.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
OBS

la paroi extérieure des hublots a une épaisseur approximative de 23 m/m (0,906 in.). Le code de source complet est INCAR-SE-210,1971,4,56-20-0,1.

Spanish

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Record 7 2010-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
  • Optics
CONT

The optical image of the picture being televised is focussed on the front glass faceplate of the camera tube. Since the glass is transparent the light strikes the photoelectric image plate on the inner surface via the lens system.

CONT

Camera tube. An electron-beam tube in which an electron current or charge-density image is formed from an optical image and scanned in a predetermined sequence to provide an electric signal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
  • Optique
CONT

La télévision numérique apprête sa sortie des laboratoires : texte, image, son, graphique, image fixe, image optique ou vidéo, passés au même code binaire, vont offrir leur haute définition aux écrans plats.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Televisión (Radioelectricidad)
  • Óptica
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Record 8 2006-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Beekeeping
  • Botany
CONT

Ceriferous is a descriptive for insects and plants producing wax.

CONT

Beeswax is secreted by honeybees of a certain age in the form of thin scales. The scales are produced by glands of 12 to 17 days old worker bees on the ventral(stomach) surface of the abdomen. Worker bees have eight wax-producing glands on the inner sides of the sternites(the ventral shield or plate of each segment of the body). Wax is produced from abdominal segments 4 to 7. The size of these wax glands depends on the age of the worker.

OBS

The term "ceriferous" is less used in English as opposed to "wax-producing".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Botanique
DEF

Se dit d'un insecte, d'une plante qui produit de la cire.

OBS

Cire. Matière sécrétée par huit glandes [de l'abeille] situées dans les segments abdominaux, sur la face ventrale et utilisée pour la construction des rayons. [...] cette sécrétion est naturelle et se produit à un certain âge chez la jeune abeille [...]

Spanish

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Record 9 2003-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Elements
  • Floors and Ceilings
  • Rough Carpentry
OBS

Ceiling joists are used to support the ceiling finish and to act as ties between exterior walls and in some cases, opposing rafters.

OBS

Since ceiling joists also serve as tension members to resist the thrust of the rafters of pitched roofs, they must be securely nailed to the plate at outer and inner walls.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments du bâtiment
  • Planchers et plafonds
  • Charpenterie
OBS

Un de plusieurs membres supportant un plafond, lorsqu'il n'y a pas de plancher fini immédiatement au-dessus.

OBS

Les solives de plafond sont clouées à chacun des chevrons et sont les attaches des murs extérieurs aux cloisons intérieures.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos de edificios
  • Pisos y cielos rasos
  • Carpintería
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Record 10 1996-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advanced Technology Weapons
  • Electronic Circuits Technology
  • Photoelectricity and Electron Optics
CONT

To solve this problem, a transparent conductive layer of indium tin oxide was deposited on the inner surface of the fibre optic plate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes de haute technicité
  • Technologie des circuits électroniques
  • Photo-électricité et optique électronique
CONT

Pour y remédier, il suffit de déposer une couche transparente conductrice d'oxyde d'indium-étain sur la surface de la plaque à fibre optique.

Spanish

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Record 11 1982-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Shipbuilding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions navales
OBS

(chaîne de transmission)

Spanish

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Record 12 1981-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diesel Motors

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteurs diesel

Spanish

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Record 13 1981-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mechanical Components
  • Bearings and Bearing Systems (Mechanical Components)
OBS

The inner ring is normally secured in place by means of a lock nut and locking washer(...) or by an end plate attached by set screws to the shaft end; the outer ring is normally retained by the housing end cover, but a threaded ring screwed into the housing bore is sometimes used.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Composants mécaniques
  • Paliers, coussinets et roulements (Composants mécaniques)
OBS

Les bagues montées à ajustement serré prennent en général appui, d'un côté, contre un épaulement. De l'autre côté, s'il s'agit d'une bague extérieure, le maintien est assuré le plus souvent par le couvercle latéral du logement, parfois par une bague filetée (...)

Spanish

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Record 14 1979-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Exploration (History)
DEF

Early sixteenth century instrument used for determining latitude by observations of Polaris. Had a base plate, graduated for time and date, on which was a disc graduated in arc. When inner disc was set to time and date the instrument was suspended vertically and a pointer, pivoted at centre of disc, was sighted on Polaris. Pointer then indicated altitude of Pole. Invented 1520.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Explorations (Histoire)
DEF

Instrument qui servait autrefois à mesurer la hauteur des astres au-dessus de l'horizon.

OBS

nom masculin.

OBS

"astrolabe de mer" et "astrolabe nautique" sont des termes plus étoffés mais pas nécessairement plus spécifiques que la vedette "astrolabe".

Spanish

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Record 15 1977-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[The stereotheca is the] inner layer of [a] thecal plate, thicker than [the] epitheca(...) [in some cystords]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Chez un Cystidé] les téguments comprennent trois couches: 1. (...) l'endothèque ou épistéréome (...); 2. une moyenne épaisse, mésostéréome ou stéréothèque, dont la structure est caractéristique des Cystidés; 3. (...) l'hypostéréome ou endothèque (...)

Spanish

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Record 16 1977-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A] crural plate [is a] plate extending from [the] inner edge of [the] outer hinge plate or crural base to [the] floor [of a brachiopod's] brachial valve, [it] may fuse laterally with [its] counterpart to form [the] septalium;(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Chez les "Pentameracea" on trouve l'équivalent des plaques crurales s'unissant en cruralium.

Spanish

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Record 17 1977-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A] cardinal plate [is a] plate extending across [the] posterior end of [a brachiopod's] brachial valve, consisting laterally of outer hinge plates, and medially of either conjunct inner hinge plates or single plate, commonly perforated posteriorly(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Deux lamelles partent de la base du processus cardinale, attachées aux plaques cardinales: (...)

Spanish

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Record 18 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien
OBS

construction

Spanish

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