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Record 1 2024-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Business and Administrative Documents
CONT

"Not available" means that the information could not be located or does not exist.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Écrits commerciaux et administratifs
DEF

Se dit d'une donnée ou d'une information dont on ne dispose pas au moment où le reste de l'information est publié.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión de las comunicaciones y la información
  • Documentos comerciales y administrativos
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Record 2 2012-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

... the Controlled Products Regulations say that, even though all nine categories [of hazards] must be filled in as completely as possible, the words "not available" and "not applicable" can be used where information is unknown or irrelevant. "Not applicable" is self-explanatory; the category is not relevant to the type of product.

CONT

Where there is no information disclosed in respect of a category set out in column I of an item of Schedule I, the material safety data sheet shall disclose, under the heading for that category ..., the words "not available" or "not applicable," as the case may be ...

OBS

N/A : abbreviation used at the DTSD [Departmental Translation Services Directorate]-Indian Affairs.

OBS

not applicable; N/A : term and abbreviation to be used by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

[Expression] utilisée dans les formules pour indiquer qu'une question ou un article ne s'appliquent pas au cas présent.

OBS

S/O : abréviation en usage à la DSTM [Direction des services de traduction ministériel] - Affaires indiennes.

OBS

sans objet; s/o : terme et abréviation d'usage obligatoire au ministère de la Défense nationale et dans les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vocabulario general
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Record 3 2011-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

Servitude resulting from inability to pay debts. Translation : péonage. The word péon appeared in French before 1880 as a borrowing from Spanish. Petit Robert(p. 1397) gives "paysan pauvre(qui n’ a pas de cheval) ;the notion of poverty can be captured in one term.

OBS

A syntagma that uses the noun debt and the derivative peonage (peon, noun, borrowing from Spanish; -age, combining form). The term refers to the poor agricultural workers of Brazil who are semi-slaves of the landowners.

CONT

As late as 1960, millions of workers were subject to so-called debt peonage: forced to buy food and other necessities from their employers at prices that exceeded their wages, they remained in penury forever.

OBS

This social neologism is a pleonasm, since the accepted meaning of peonage incorporates the notion of semi-slavery due to inability to pay debts. Random House gives for peonage: 2. The practice of holding persons in servitude or partial slavery, as to work off a debt. (p. 1677). Debt peonage, therefore, will join free gift among the many pleonasms in our language.

Key term(s)
  • peonage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Spanish

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Record 4 - external organization data 2006-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
02.04.07 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

two-valued switching function of one or more not necessarily Boolean arguments that takes the value one if a specified mathematical function of the arguments exceeds a given threshold value, and zero otherwise

OBS

Example : The threshold function f(a1</sub>,..., an</sub>)=0 if g [smaller or equal] T; f(a1</sub>,..., an</sub>)=1 if g > T with g=W1sub>a1</sub> +... + Wn</sub>an</sub> where W1,..., Wn</sub> are positive weights for the real arguments a1</sub>,..., an</sub> and T is the threshold.

OBS

threshold function: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO 2382-2:1976].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
02.04.07 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

fonction logique, dont les arguments ne sont pas nécessairement booléens, qui ne peut prendre que deux valeurs : un, si une fonction déterminée des arguments excède une valeur de seuil donnée, zéro dans le cas contraire

OBS

Exemple : La fonction de seuil f(a1, ..., an) = 0 si g [inférieur ou égal] T; f(a1, ..., an) = 1 si g > T avec g = W1a1 + ... + Wnan où W1, ..., Wn sont des coefficients positifs affectés aux arguments réels a1, ..., an et T est égal à la valeur de seuil.

OBS

fonction de seuil : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO 2382-2:1976].

Spanish

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Record 5 1996-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
DEF

Part of the punishment of a traitor, by dividing his body into four quarters.

CONT

The ancient methods of execution in which the limbs and bodies were literally pulled apart by main force, or cut up into sections by an executioner, lived long in European civilization. Quartering would appear to be a development of disembowelling, as the practice of cutting open the abdomen and removing the bowels, before the body was divided into sections, persisted for a long time.

OBS

Les ouvrages anglais consultés privilégient l'emploi du terme "quartering". "Quarterization" n’ a pas été relevé dans les ouvrages consultés.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
DEF

Supplice qui, au Moyen-Âge et sous l'Ancien Régime consistait à tirer les membres du condamné jusqu'à la rupture des muscles.

CONT

Qu'est-ce que l'écartèlement? Un très vieux supplice, comme toutes les mises en morceaux, qui consiste à arracher les quatre membres du tronc par une traction brutale, très forte, appliquée simultanément sur chacun d'eux.

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
OBS

Lexique de l'assurance-chômage, Emploi et Immigration Canada, 1992.

Spanish

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Record 7 1992-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Searching from General to Specific Hypothesis.... For each hypothesis h... that matches n(a negative instance), replace h with the most general specialization(s) of h that will not match n.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

(...) calcule l'ensemble Gmax des spécialisations maximales g de la description hg donnée (...).

Spanish

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Record 8 1982-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tracks and Roadways (Rail Transport)
OBS

Nouvelle section de l'atelier diesels. C'est là où les locomotives stationnent afin d’être ravitaillées en carburant, sable, etc. Les voies sont en ligne droite :"turn-around" n’ a aucun rapport avec le fait de tourner ou de contourner.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Voies ferrées

Spanish

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Record 9 1981-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Recruiting of Personnel
  • Transfer of Personnel
OBS

D. désigne une personne qui est engagée directement comme cadre, une personne qui n’ a pas à gravir les échelons, par exemple un diplômé d’université. Désigne aussi la technique, la façon de procéder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recrutement du personnel
  • Mobilité du personnel
OBS

I. quels fruits l'on peut tirer d'un "parachutage" d'assistants techniques dans un groupe d'entreprises. [GILMO 71 366]

Spanish

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Record 10 1977-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

Crown-owned land under the direct, immediate control of the Crown.

OBS

Le terme "retained land" n’ a pas été retrouvé dans les ouvrages consultés. La notion qui semble le plus se rapprocher de celle-ci est celle de réserve. L'équivalent le plus près de cette notion semble être :"State Forest Reserve" et "Crown Forest Reserve"(AIFFO, p. 303).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Étendue vacante de terres de la Couronne, constituée en forêt qui servira spécialement de réserve pour les besoins de l'industrie forestière.

Spanish

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Record 11 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
OBS

(n. & a.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique

Spanish

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