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LEFT-HAND TURN [6 records]

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Record 1 2023-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transportation
  • Driving (Road Vehicles)
  • Cycling
CONT

Left turns are notoriously dangerous, as they often involve crossing traffic and turning into oncoming traffic. This can lead to serious accidents, as drivers may not see oncoming vehicles or pedestrians in time to avoid them. Left turns are especially dangerous at intersections, where there is a greater chance of collision.

Key term(s)
  • left hand turn

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transports
  • Conduite automobile
  • Cyclisme
CONT

Le virage à gauche est une manœuvre très risquée pour le cyclomotoriste, pour deux raisons principales : [la] priorité qu'il doit accorder aux véhicules qui circulent en sens inverse et qui l'oblige à attendre [et la] densité de la circulation qui empêche une manœuvre rapide.

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chains and Cables (Mechanical Components)
  • Ship Maintenance
CONT

Turnbuckles are used for adjusting tension in ropes, cables, tie rods and other tensioning systems, as well as for pulling together and pushing apart anchor points. Heavy duty rigging turnbuckles consist of two threaded bolts, each screwed into the ends of a metal frame. One side is left-hand threaded and the other is right-hand threaded, so riggers can turn the metal frame to push apart and pull together the threaded bolts. These threaded bolts come with a wide variety of end fittings and attachments including jaws, eyes, clevises, hooks and many more. All cable turnbuckles and turnbuckle hardware feature UNC [unified coarse] threads...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et chaînes (Composants mécaniques)
  • Entretien des navires

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cultivating and Tilling Equipment
  • Tillage Operations (Agriculture)
CONT

... David Greig... is credited with the development of the balance plough.... Greig suggested a frame mounted as a "see-saw" carried on a two-wheeled axle, one side carrying the right-hand plough bodies and the other side the left-hand, thus enabling the plough to turn all the furrows in the same direction by alternating the bodies.

Key term(s)
  • balance plow

French

Domaine(s)
  • Motoculteurs et motobineuses
  • Travaux du sol (Agriculture)
CONT

Le défoncement : il s'agit d'un labour très profond (70 - 80 cm) effectué à l'aide d'une charrue-balance. L'objectif principal est d'aérer, de décompacter le sol avant toute mise en valeur.

CONT

C'est grâce à leurs tracteurs à chenilles, qui étaient impressionnants, et à la charrue à balance, que seule la force de gros bras pouvait remettre en place dans le sillon ouvert, qu'un grand nombre de champs de bois et de garrigues furent défrichés pour être mis en exploitation.

OBS

charrue balance : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Motocultores y motobinadoras
  • Labores de cultivo (Agricultura)
DEF

[Arado] de dos cuerpos en forma de V articulado por su base en el eje de las ruedas y que, al bascular sobre dicho eje, permite labrar en direcciones opuestas sin necesitar dar la vuelta.

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Record 4 2012-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Swimming
DEF

Each of the swimming divisions in a swimming pool, six in a semi-Olympic pool (25 metres) and eight in an Olympic-size pool (50 metres).

CONT

A lane shall be not less than 1.8 m (6 ft) wide unobstructed by steps, ladders, fountains, or overhanging pieces that may interfere with swimming or turning. (FINA requires lanes 2.5 m wide for major International Games Competition.).

CONT

As you approach the wall for a turn, cross over to the far left-hand corner of the lane once the people ahead of you have passed by. Make your turn in the left corner of the lane, and push off along what is now the right side of the swimming lane.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Natation
CONT

Les couloirs doivent avoir une largeur minimale de 1,8 m (6 pi) et n'être obstrués par aucune marche, échelle, fontaine ou aucun objet suspendu susceptible de gêner les mouvements de nage ou de virage. (Pour les compétitions internationales importantes, la FINA exige des couloirs de 2,5 m de largeur).

OBS

Une piscine semi-olympique se divise en six couloirs alors qu'une piscine olympique en compte huit, parfois dix, les deux en extrémité servant de zone tampon pour absorber les retours de vagues.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Natación
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Record 5 2002-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
  • Telecommunications
  • Video Technology
CONT

Blanking voltages, while preventing the electron beam from impinging on the fluorescent screen during retrace periods, do not cause the movement of the beam from the right-to the left-hand side of the screen, or from the bottom to the top. For this, another set of pulses, superimposed over the blanking signals, control the oscillators at the receiver and these, in turn, control the position of the beam. The pulses are called synchronizing pulses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
  • Télécommunications
  • Vidéotechnique
DEF

Impulsion émise périodiquement pour synchroniser le fonctionnement de divers appareils, par exemple pour synchroniser les balayages à l'analyse et à la synthèse d'une image en télévision.

CONT

Pour que l'image puisse être reproduite fidèlement, il faut transmettre des impulsions de synchronisation pour repérer le début de l'image et des impulsions de suppression pendant l'intervalle où le faisceau revient au début de la ligne suivante. Tous ces signaux sont combinés en un signal dit signal vidéo composite.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Televisión (Radioelectricidad)
  • Telecomunicaciones
  • Técnicas de video
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Record 6 1998-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
CONT

When we turn to the two male subjects who reported that they normally preferred using their left hand in Braille reading, and the one female who reported ambilaterality in this respect, all three proved superior with their left hands in this experiment, as did one of the two subjects who failed to evince full dextrality on the 9-item questionnaire. Three of the other seven fully dextral subjects who reported that they preferred using their right hand in Braille gave a left-hand superiority, while the other four gave a right-hand superiority.

OBS

Ambilateral: affecting both sides.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
DEF

Absence de dominance fonctionnelle d'un côté du corps sur l'autre.

Spanish

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