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POINT BOUNDARIES [23 records]

Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

As Beatley has emphasized, the entire distance between Flight 90's starting point and its collision point with the bridge would fit within the boundaries of any of the three jet runways at Washington's other underused airport, Dulles International.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
DEF

In a plane, a geometric figure defined by the union or the intersection of two half-planes whose boundaries intersect at a point O...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
DEF

Dans un plan, figure géométrique délimitée par l'union ou l'intersection de deux demi-plans dont les frontières sont sécantes en un point O [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • International Public Law
DEF

... a person who is endowed with full political and civil rights in the state concerned.

OBS

... international law recognizes that one's status as a "citizen" is determined by domestic law, but for certain purposes, especially when a citizen is outside the boundaries of his country, international law may have an overriding effect. Thus, international law recognizes the right of a country to protect its citizens(who are known as "nationals" when they are abroad), but at that point, since this is a right recognized at international law, the definition of who is a "citizen" or "national" must be determined by international law as well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Droit international public
OBS

[...] le droit international reconnaît l'autorité du droit national pour déterminer le statut de «citoyen». Mais dans certains cas, spécialement quand un citoyen est hors des frontières de son pays, le droit international reconnaît qu'un pays a le droit de protéger ses citoyens (qu'on appelle «ressortissants» quand ils sont à l'étranger), mais alors et pour cette raison, la définition du «citoyen» ou du «ressortissant» doit être aussi établie en droit international.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
  • Derecho internacional público
DEF

Persona considerada como miembro activo de un Estado, titular de derechos políticos y sometido a sus leyes.

OBS

ciudadano: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que cuando se habla de un "nacional", se alude a una persona que no es extranjera y no es adecuado su uso como mero sinónimo de un "ciudadano".

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Record 4 2017-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Urban Sites
CONT

A view is a scene observed from a given vantage point... A view must be analyzed and composed with keenly perceptive artistry to utilize even a fraction of the full dramatic potential. Like other landscape features, the view by its handling may be preserved, neutralized, modified, or accentuated... A view is a picture to be framed, an evolving panorama of many blending facets. A view is a theme... A view is a constantly changing mood conveyed by association, light, and color. A view is a limit of visual space. It transcends the boundaries of the site... A view is a backdrop. It may serve as the wall of a garden or as a mural in a room. A view is the setting for architecture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
  • Sites (Urbanisme)
DEF

Pour un immeuble ou un monument classé, ensemble des espaces visibles à partir de ce dernier.

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
DEF

The marine region, extending to a distance of 50 nautical miles in all directions, from the boundaries of a designated port used as a reference point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences
DEF

Région maritime, s'étendant jusqu'à 50 milles marins dans toutes les directions à partir des limites d'un port désigné servant de point de référence.

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cartography
DEF

A file containing lists of point coordinates describing boundaries, drainage lines, transportation routes, and other linear features, commonly digitized manually or scanned and organized by quadrangle as the digital equivalent of the linear hydrographic and cultural data on a topographic base map.

CONT

The U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) digital line graph (DLG) files are digital vector representations of cartographic information.

OBS

digital line graph (DLG): term and abbreviation used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cartographie

Spanish

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Record 7 2007-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
  • Semiconductors (Electronics)
DEF

A boundary between grains in polycrystalline material [under the shape of] a discontinuity of the material structure having an effect on its fundamental properties.

CONT

Pattern observed in convection at large aspect ratios; thick lines mark the place of sinking fluid; the texture is made of large grain with a slowly varying roll orientation bounded by smaller grains and lateral wall; notice the presence of line and point defects called grain boundaries and dislocations(after Pocheau and Croquette, 1984).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
  • Semi-conducteurs (Électronique)
DEF

Zone limitrophe entre les grains d'un matériau polycristallin se présentant sous la forme d'une discontinuité de la structure du matériau ayant un rôle à jouer dans l'établissement de ses propriétés de base.

CONT

Texture observée en convection à grand facteur de forme et composée d'un large grain où l'orientation des rouleaux varie lentement, bordé de grains plus petits près des parois latérales; on note la présence de défauts linéaires et ponctuels respectivement appelés joints de grains et dislocations; les lignes épaisses marquent l'emplacement des courants descendants (d'après Pocheau et Croquette, 1984).

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy Transformation
DEF

A continuous, closed convection system, fluid that rises being replaced by fluid from elsewhere.

CONT

Near the outer boundaries of the convection loops... the temperatures of the descending convection currents would almost certainly be lower than those of the boiling point/depth curve, as the waters would not be descending unless they had cooled appreciably.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation de l'énergie
CONT

Près des limites extérieures des «boucles» de convection [...], les températures des courants de convection descendants seront sans doute inférieures à celles de la courbe point d'ébullition/profondeur, les eaux ne descendant pas, à moins qu'elles ne se soient sensiblement refroidies.

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Record 9 2003-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Physics
CONT

There is remarkable agreement between the number of such variations, their temporal variability and duration in the coronal hole and ’quiet’ Sun datasets, consistent with an earlier bright point study. There appears to be evidence of super-granular cells, with the increase in electron density occurring along the network boundaries.

CONT

Super-Granulation Cells. ... The boundaries between super-granule cells can be seen by emission in the chromosphere known as the chromospheric network and contain concentrations of magnetic flux tubes.

Key term(s)
  • super granulum cell
  • super granular cell
  • super granule cell
  • super granulation cell

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique spatiale
OBS

Physique solaire.

Key term(s)
  • super granule

Spanish

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Record 10 2003-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Physics
OBS

super-granular : There is remarkable agreement between the number of such variations, their temporal variability and duration in the coronal hole and ’quiet’ Sun datasets, consistent with an earlier bright point study. There appears to be evidence of super-granular cells, with the increase in electron density occurring along the network boundaries.

Key term(s)
  • super granular motion

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique spatiale
OBS

Physique du Soleil.

Key term(s)
  • mouvement de super granules

Spanish

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Record 11 2000-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

A small watershed that is part of a larger watershed such as the watershed of a tributary stream.

DEF

A drainage area within a watershed.

CONT

... the Lower Trent Region Conservation Authority and Environment Canada are currently testing the Habitat Strategy ... to direct and prioritize upland habitat needs within two watersheds. The actual per cent of riparian and forested habitats within a particular subwatershed may be compared to pre-established targets and thresholds.

OBS

watershed : The area of land from which rainfall(and/or snow melt) drains into a single point. Watersheds are also sometimes referred to as drainage basins or drainage areas. Ridges of higher ground generally form the boundaries between watersheds. At these boundaries, rain falling on one side flows toward the low point of one watershed, while rain falling on the other side of the boundary flows toward the low point of a different watershed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
CONT

Zones de répartition des eaux : Zones comprenant les bassins, sous-bassins, fractions de sous-bassins hydrographiques et systèmes aquifères définis dans le décret du 29 avril 1994.

OBS

[...] l'Office de protection de la nature du cours inférieur de la rivière Trent et Environnement Canada mettent actuellement à l'essai la Stratégie sur l'habitat [...] afin d'orienter et de prioriser les besoins en matière d'habitat de haute terre dans deux bassins hydrographiques. Le pourcentage réel d'habitats riverains et forestiers dans un sous-bassin donné peut se comparer à des objectifs et à des seuils préétablis.

OBS

Bassin hydrographique, bassin d'alimentation, bassin-versant, et, absolt, bassin : espace géographique alimentant un cours d'eau et drainé par lui.

Spanish

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Record 12 1998-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
  • Public Service
DEF

At the Public Service of Canada, a job evaluation term referring to the boundaries encompassing the specific point rating given to a job as a whole and determining its level with regard to a job classification scheme.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
  • Fonction publique
CONT

Les fourchettes des cotes numériques des niveaux de classification se basent sur une progression géométrique du point milieu de chaque échelle. Les fourchettes des cotes numériques de chaque niveau ont fait l'objet de légers rajustements pour tenir compte des variations mineures causées par l'utilisation d'une progression arithmétique pour déterminer les valeurs des degrés des facteurs dans le système d'évaluation.

Spanish

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Record 13 1997-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
OBS

Valeurs minimales et maximales attribuées à un niveau.

Spanish

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Record 14 1996-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
CONT

The clipper divider is a piece of hardware that performs clipping. You feed it a live start and end point(3D or 2D) and it returns a start and end point of the line clipped to the predefined boundaries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)
CONT

Du point de vue de la réalisation, le clipping divider comprend huit additionneurs disposés en deux groupes de quatre. L'un de ces groupes sert à déterminer à quel endroit un segment pénètre dans le champ de l'épure et l'autre groupe quand il en sort.

Spanish

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Record 15 1994-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

This notion of topological dimension has been formalized in the twentieth century on the basis of the idea of Poincaré(1905, Chap. III, S3) to let a point have zero dimension, to relate the dimension of a space to the way it can be divided by boundaries, and to use mathematical induction. Thus curves can be divided by cuts which are of zero dimension(i. e. by points) and so have one dimension, surfaces can be divided by cuts of one dimension(i. e. by curves) and so have two dimensions, etc. Cantor's middle-thirds set had no place in Euclid's Elements, of course, but it may be said to have topological dimension d=O because it is a subset of R with zero length(and so has neither breadth nor length).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
CONT

Ensemble dont la dimension fractale est égale ou supérieure à sa dimension ordinaire (topologique).

Spanish

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Record 16 1993-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics (Physics)
CONT

Pattern observed in convection at large aspect ratios; thick lines mark the place of sinking fluid; the texture is made of large grain with a slowly varying roll orientation bounded by smaller grains and lateral wall; notice the presence of line and point defects called grain boundaries and dislocations(after Pocheau and Croquette, 1984).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique des fluides et hydraulique (Physique)
CONT

Texture observée en convection à grand facteur de forme et composée d'un large grain où l'orientation des rouleaux varie lentement, bordé de grains plus petits près des parois latérales; on note la présence de défauts linéaires et ponctuels respectivement appelés joints de grains et dislocations; les lignes épaisses marquent l'emplacement des courants descendants (d'après Pocheau et Croquette, 1984).

Spanish

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Record 17 1990-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
OBS

Justification proposed by Intergraph : If the plane is clipped by the display depth, a point may not be entered outside the clipped boundaries

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 18 1989-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Mathematics
CONT

We can think of centers-attractors-which compete for influence on the plane : an initial point is driven by the process to one center or another, or it is on the boundary and cannot decide. If the parameter is changed, the regions belonging to the attractors change, and with them the boundaries. It can happen that the boundary falls to dust, and this decay is one of the most important scenarios.

CONT

An exponent describes the algebraic decay of the ordinary radial correlation function.

CONT

Power law (algebraic) decay.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Mathématiques
OBS

Le caractère dissipatif de ces équations tend à dégénérer. Des propriétés inertielles apparaissent alors, associées à l'émergence d'effets coopératifs de conservation de la métrique.

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Record 19 1987-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Speleology
CONT

Near the outer boundaries of the convection loops : the temperatures of the descending convection currents would almost certainly be lower than those of the boiling point/depth curve, as the waters would not be descending unless they had cooled appreciably.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Spéléologie

Spanish

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Record 20 1986-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
CONT

Second, the point cut-off structure makes use of point score bands or point score ranges to group tops into levels. The point cut-off can be varied to create many or few levels and to improve the meaning of levels within an organization, e. g. different levels of trade skills, or appropriate distinctions in levels of managers or specialists. The boundaries of point score ranges can be adjusted to avoid stradoling clusters of jobs that the employer believes belong in the same level

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois

Spanish

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Record 21 1982-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
CONT

In a single-crystal blade casting the first element to solidify is a "starter block" attached to the root of the [turbine] blade by a narrow helical passage in the mould. The helical passage obstructs the growth of multiple crystal boundaries, with the result that the blade is formed from a single crystal. This crystal propagates in two halves around the strong-back. The two halves of the blade can then be joined by a process called "transient liquid phase" bonding, in which the halves are mated around a foil "gasket" of the same alloy as the blade--coated with boron to reduce its melting point--and joined under pressure. The gasket and the thin layer of metal immediately adjacent to it melt, the boron dissipates completely and the part solidifies while still under pressure. As far as can be ascertained, the join produced by this means in a single-crystal blade is effectively perfect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
CONT

Dans le procédé de coulée des aubes à structure mono-cristalline, le premier élément solidifié est un «bloc de démarrage» relié à la base de l'aube par un étroit passage hélocoïdal pratiqué dans le moule. Ce passage empêche la formation de joints multiples entre les cristaux, ce qui fait que l'aube est formée d'un seul cristal. Ce cristal se propage en deux moitiés autour de la pièce de renforcement. Les deux moitiés de l'aube sont ensuite scellées au moyen d'un procédé appelé «transient liquid phase», qui consiste à assembler les deux moitiés autour d'une feuille du même alliage que l'aube -- feuille qui est revêtue de bore pour abaisser son point de fusion -- et à les assembler ensuite sous pression. La feuille d'alliage et la fine couche de métal qui la touche entrent en fusion, le bore se dissipe complètement et la pièce se solidifie alors qu'elle est toujours sous pression.

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Record 22 1982-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
CONT

In a single-crystal blade casting, the first element to solidify is a "starter block" attached to the root of the [turbine] blade by a narrow helical passage in the mould. The helical passage obstructs the growth of multiple crystal boundaries, with the result that the blade is formed from a single crystal. This crystal propagates in two halves around the strong-back. The two halves of the blade can then be joined by a process called "transient liquid phase" bonding, in which the halves are mated around a foil "gasket" of the same alloy as the blade--coated with boron to reduce its melting point--and joined under pressure. The gasket and the thin layer of metal immediately adjacent to it melt, the boron dissipates completely and the part solidifies while still under pressure. As far as can be ascertained, the join produced by this means in a single-crystal blade is effectively perfect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
CONT

Dans le procédé de coulée des aubes à structure mono-cristalline, le premier élément solidifié est un «bloc de démarrage» relié à la base de l'aube par un étroit passage hélicoïdal pratiqué dans le moule. Ce passage empêche la formation de joints multiples entre les cristaux, ce qui fait que l'aube est formée d'un seul cristal. Ce cristal se propage en deux moitiés autour de la pièce de renforcement. Les deux moitiés de l'aube sont ensuite scellées au moyen d'un procédé appelé «transient liquid phase», qui consiste à assembler les deux moitiés autour d'une feuille du même alliage que l'aube -- feuille qui est revêtue de bore pour abaisser son point de fusion -- et à les assembler ensuite sous pression. La feuille d'alliage et la fine couche de métal qui la touche entrent en fusion, le bore se dissipe complètement et la pièce se solidifie alors qu'elle est toujours sous pression.

Spanish

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Record 23 1982-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
CONT

In a single-crystal blade casting, the first element to solidify is a "starter block" attached to the root of the [turbine] blade by a narrow helical passage in the mould. The helical passage obstructs the growth of multiple crystal boundaries, with the result that the blade is formed from a single crystal. This crystal propagates in two halves around the strong-back. The two halves of the blade can then be joined by a process called "transient liquid phase" bonding, in which the halves are mated around a foil "gasket" of the same alloy as the blade--coated with boron to reduce its melting point--and joined under pressure. The gasket and the thin layer of metal immediately adjacent to it melt, the boron dissipates completely and the part solidifies while still under pressure. As far as can be ascertained, the join produced by this means in a single-crystal blade is effectively perfect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
CONT

Dans le procédé de coulée des aubes à structure mono-cristalline, le premier élément solidifié est un «bloc de démarrage» relié à la base de l'aube par un étroit passage hélicoïdal pratiqué dans le moule. Ce passage empêche la formation de joints multiples entre les cristaux, ce qui fait que l'aube est formée d'un seul cristal. Ce cristal se propage en deux moitiés autour de la pièce de renforcement. Les deux moitiés de l'aube sont ensuite scellées au moyen d'un procédé appelé «transient liquid phase», qui consiste à assembler les deux moitiés autour d'une feuille du même alliage que l'aube -- feuille qui est revêtue de bore pour abaisser son point de fusion -- et à les assembler ensuite sous pression. La feuille d'alliage et la fine couche de métal qui la touche entrent en fusion, le bore se dissipe complètement et la pièce se solidifie alors qu'elle est toujours sous pression.

Spanish

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