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KALEIDOSCOPE [9 records]

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Record 1 2023-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Furniture Industries
  • Postal Correspondence
  • Workplace Organization
CONT

If you happen to be seated at two particular antique tables inside [the café] and pull open the letter drawers, you’ll find a kaleidoscope of the human experience. Inside are hundreds of scraps of notebook paper, cafe receipts, paper napkins and the occasional business card covered with jotted-down notes to future customers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie du meuble
  • Objets de correspondance (Postes)
  • Organisation du travail et équipements

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

kaleidoscope : an item in the "Toys" class of the "Recreational Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

kaléidoscope : objet de la classe «Jouets» de la catégorie «Objets récréatifs».

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Theatre and Opera
OBS

[A national] charitable, not-for-profit organization established in 1974, whose mission is to create original, innovative and relevant theatre experiences that stimulate and inspire young people to think about the world around them, and to engage in constructive and creative self-expression.

Key term(s)
  • Kaleidoscope Theater Productions Society
  • Kaleidoscope Theater for Young People

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Théâtre et Opéra
Key term(s)
  • Kaleidoscope Theater Productions Society
  • Kaleidoscope Theater for Young People

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
  • Games and Toys (General)
CONT

kaleidoscope : optical device consisting of mirrors that reflect images of bits of coloured glass in a symmetrical geometric design through a viewer.... The mirrors are enclosed in a tube with a viewing eyehole at one end. At the other end is a thin, flat box that can be rotated... Some kaleidoscopes dispense with the object box and use a lens to throw images of distant objects on the mirrors, an eyepiece at the viewing eyehole then being an advantage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
  • Jeux et jouets (Généralités)
DEF

Dans un instrument d'optique composé, lentille ou système de lentilles devant lequel on place l'œil.

CONT

Le kaléidoscope est un tube de carton ou de métal dans lequel sont enfermés deux miroirs plans formant entre eux un angle de 45 degrés, ou, parfois, trois miroirs inclinés à 60 degrés. Des disques de verre ferment les deux extrémités du tube. L'un des disques est utilisé comme oculaire; l'autre laisse passer la lumière et supporte des fragments mobiles de diverses matières [...] Ces fragments se groupent à l'intersection des miroirs et forment des combinaisons et des dessins d'une grande variété. Si l'on tient l'instrument dans une position horizontale et si l'on regarde le fond à travers l'oculaire, on aperçoit une figure géométrique complexe [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
DEF

An instrument containing mirror reflecting surfaces which produce a changing pattern when viewed against light.

CONT

A slight turn of a kaleidoscope when you’re looking through it and you get a different view of things. The image changes. If you turn the kaleidoscope a great deal, the image changes substantially or even completely. If you turn the kaleidoscope only slightly, however, the image changes only slightly, being built partly upon that at which you were looking initially.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
DEF

Appareil formé d'un tube opaque, contenant plusieurs miroirs disposés de façon que de petits objets colorés placés dans le tube y produisent des dessins variés.

Spanish

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Record 7 1998-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé

Spanish

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Record 8 1995-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Theory
DEF

The ability to challenge traditional assumptions and define new patterns and possibilities.

CONT

Greater commitment and enhanced ability to implement decisions and strategies are the natural consequence of participative planning. So is the increased portfolio of innovative ideas. By bringing together a mixture of people with different perspectives and through the use of consensus-building methodologies one allows for the emergence of what is called "Kaleidoscope thinking"-the ability to challenge traditional assumptions and define new patterns and possibilities.

OBS

The definition and the context are taken from Winning through Participation: Meeting the Challenge of Corporate Change with the Technology of Participation, by Laura Spencer, Dubuque, Iowa, 1989.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories de la gestion
OBS

Au figuré, kaléidoscopique signifie changeant.

Spanish

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Record 9 1987-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Performing Arts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Arts du spectacle

Spanish

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