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Record 1 2026-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Guns (Land Forces)
DEF

A barrel through which a round has been fired while obstructed.

OBS

The resultant excessive radial pressure at the meeting point of the round with the obstruction causes a circumferential bulge in the barrel.

OBS

ringed barrel: designation and definition officially approved by the Army Terminology Panel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Canons (Forces terrestres)
DEF

Canon par lequel on a tiré un coup alors qu'il était obstrué.

OBS

La pression radiale excessive se produisant au point de contact du projectile et de l'obstruction cause un gonflement de la circonférence du canon.

OBS

tube gonflé; canon gonflé : désignations et définition uniformisées par le Groupe d'experts en terminologie de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bowels
  • Surgery
CONT

The creation of a BPD [biliopancreatic diversion] necessarily requires an alternation of the normal GI [gastrointestinal] continuity. The basic components of the mechanism, no matter how it is constructed, are as follows :(1) an intestinal segment, immediately following the duodenum, where the meeting between food and digestive juices is prevented, called biliopancreatic limb(BPL) as it only leads the biliodigestive juices to the point of meeting with food;(2) an intestinal segment leading food from the stomach to the point where aliments meet the biliopancreatic secretions, called alimentary limb(AL) ;(3) an intestinal segment, between the point of meeting and the ileocecal valve(ICV), where biliopancreatic digestion starts and the products of it can be absorbed(common limb or CL).

CONT

[The] shortening of the common limb (CL) is related to higher risk of malabsorption.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intestins
  • Chirurgie
CONT

[...] la partie qui sert à l'absorption des nutriments (anse commune) [...] Si l'on souhaite augmenter la malabsorption, il faut réduire la longueur de l'anse commune.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Records Management (Management)
  • Document Classification (Library Science)
CONT

Generic Valuation Tools(GVT) provide Government of Canada institutions with a starting point for meeting two key requirements of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat(TBS) Directive on Recordkeeping(2009), namely the identification of information resources of business value(IRBV) and the establishment of retention specifications.

OBS

Generic Valuation Tool: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • Generic Valuation Tools

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des documents (Gestion)
  • Classification des documents (Bibliothéconomie)
CONT

Globalement, les OGE appuient la tenue de documents efficace à l'échelle du GC [gouvernement du Canada] afin d'assurer la saine gestion des documents et la reddition de comptes, de même que la prise de décisions efficiente au nom de tous les Canadiens. Dans le cadre de leurs activités de tenue de documents efficace, les institutions du GC doivent utiliser et gérer les ressources documentaires à valeur opérationnelle (RDVO) comme des actifs stratégiques.

CONT

Chaque OGE porte sur une activité opérationnelle particulière commune à tous les organismes du GC [gouvernement du Canada], et comporte deux éléments : le contexte de l'activité, qui fournit une définition et une analyse de l'activité opérationnelle et des processus qui y sont associés; les recommandations liées aux ressources documentaires ayant une valeur opérationnelle et à leur conservation [...]

OBS

outil générique d'évaluation : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • outils génériques d'évaluation

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Education
OBS

Founded in 1975, the British Association for Canadian Studies(BACS) is one of the member associations of the International Council for Canadian Studies, of which it was a founder member in 1981. BACS welcomes applications for membership from anyone with an interest in the study of Canada. BACS aims to function as a forum and meeting point for Canadian Studies in Britain. Its annual conference combines a wide range of topics and distinguished speakers with an informal and friendly atmosphere.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Pédagogie

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
OBS

Usually three, sometimes four, lines meeting at a point which are so chosen as to bear a definite relationship to the characteristic features of the crystallographic symmetry.

Key term(s)
  • crystyllographic axis
  • crystyllographical axis

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Telecommunications
OBS

AHCIET is the Hispanic-American Association of Research Centers and Telecommunication Enterprises. Founded in 1982, AHCIET is a non-profit organization. More than 50 Latin American and Spanish telecommunications companies have joinded us with the sole purpose of contributing to telecommunications development as a basis of every nation's growth. Our mission is to be the meeting point for telecommunications operators in Latin America, and to offer our members products and services focused on developing knowledge management, training and social applications and business opportunities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Télécommunications
OBS

En Espagne.

OBS

Terminologie relative au processus des Sommets des Amériques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités nacionales no canadienses
  • Telecomunicaciones
OBS

AHCIET es la Asociación Hispanoamericana de Centros de Investigación y Empresas de Telecomunicaciones, institución privada sin ánimo de lucro,creada en 1982 y conformada por más de 50 empresas operadoras de telecomunicaciones en 20 países de América Latina y España. Nuestra misión es ser punto de encuentro de las telecomunicaciones Iberoamericanas a fin de ofrecer a nuestros socios actividades, productos y servicios orientados a desarrollar gestión inteligente de la información, formación profesional, aplicaciones sociales y oportunidades de negocio en el mercado.

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Record 7 2011-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
DEF

The axial meeting point of rays parallel to the optical axis on incidence, after refraction by lens or optical system, that has a greater image distance than the primary focus.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
DEF

Point image d'un objet situé à l'infini, formé sur l'axe par un système optique [...]

OBS

Source MVISI-F : Le nouveau dictionnaire de la vision par Michel Millodot, Médiacom Vision Éditeur, 1997.

Key term(s)
  • point focal image

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
DEF

The axial meeting point of incident rays which become parallel after refraction by an optical system, that has a smaller image distance than the secondary focus.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
DEF

[...] point objet, sur l'axe, dont l'image se forme à l'infini.

Key term(s)
  • point focal objet

Spanish

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Record 9 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Heraldry
DEF

In blazon, referring to charges forming a diagonal from sinister chief to dexter base.

CONT

Azure six piles reversed throughout Argent, three in bend meeting in point, three in bend sinister meeting in point, all counterchanged.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Héraldique
DEF

Dans le blason, se dit de figures formant une diagonale du chef senestre à la pointe dextre.

CONT

D'azur à six pointes d'argent, trois en bande, trois en barre, leurs sommets aboutés aux angles de l'écu, le tout de l'un en l'autre.

Spanish

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Record 10 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Heraldry
DEF

In blazon, referring to charges forming a diagonal from dexter chief to sinister base.

CONT

Azure six piles reversed throughout Argent, three in bend meeting in point, three in bend sinister meeting in point, all counterchanged.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Héraldique
DEF

Dans le blason, se dit de figures formant une diagonale du chef dextre à la pointe senestre.

CONT

D'azur à six pointes d'argent, trois en bande, trois en barre, leurs sommets aboutés aux angles de l'écu, le tout de l'un en l'autre.

Spanish

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Record 11 2009-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plate Tectonics
DEF

A point that is common to three plates and which must also be the meeting place of three boundary features, such as divergence zones, convergence zones, or transform faults.

OBS

triple junction: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique des plaques
DEF

Zone de la lithosphère située à la jonction de trois frontières de plaques.

CONT

La jonction triple est la réunion de trois plaques de lithosphère suivant des dorsales, des fosses, des failles transformantes ou une combinaison de celles-ci.

OBS

jonction triple; point triple : termes en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tectónica de placas
DEF

Zona geográfica donde se encuentran tres placas de la litosfera.

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Record 12 2007-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Fitness Training and Bodybuilding
  • Weightlifting
CONT

To perform the cable crossover, begin by grasping one cable, and then carefully walking across the machine to grasp the opposite cable. You should set yourself in the middle of the machine, and ensure that the cables are now meeting at the midline of your body, or with your hands together... To effectively isolate your pectorals(pec minor and upper fibers of pec major) you must set your upper body at an angle of approximately 70-90 degrees with the ground. Begin by allowing your arms to move out and lower the weight. Only lower the weight to a point where your upper arm is horizontal to the ground... Once you have reached this point, return to the starting position with your hands meeting at the midline of the body.

Key term(s)
  • cable cross-over

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conditionnement physique et culturisme
  • Haltérophilie
CONT

Oiseau sur poulie [...] Exécution : se tenir debout entre les poulies et en prendre une dans chaque main. Ouvrir les bras en V, les paumes tournées vers le sol. Plier légèrement les bras et les garder dans cette position tout au long du mouvement. Pencher légèrement le corps vers l'avant et garder cette position durant tout le mouvement. De cette position de départ, descendre lentement les poignées des poulies devant le corps en décrivant des demi-cercles jusqu'à ce que les mains se touchent à environ 15 centimètres devant les hanches. Ramener les poignées à leur position de départ et répéter le mouvement.

Spanish

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Record 13 2005-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
  • Education Theory and Methods
DEF

The description of history with changes in a few key facts or events as the basis for speculation of a different outcome.

CONT

Virtual history, also referred to as counterfactual history, is a form of history which attempts to answer "what if" questions. It seeks to explore history and historical processes from the point of view of extrapolating a position in which certain key historical events did not happen or had an outcome which was different to that which did in fact occur. Most historians regard counterfactual history as sometimes entertaining, but not meeting the standards of mainstream historical research due to its speculative nature.

OBS

[Favorite] subjects for counterfactual history conjecture include: ... "What if the Confederacy won the Civil War?" ... What if the Kaiser’s Germany won World War I?" ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
CONT

D'abord, comment désigne-t-on cet exercice qui consiste à faire l'histoire avec des «si» ? Les Anglais disent What if? Il y a d'ailleurs des collections entières de livres anglais qui portent ce titre. C'est un titre prosaïque qui diminue sans doute un peu le sujet. On peut, en termes plus abstraits, parler d'histoire contrefactuelle ou virtuelle. Un de nos compatriotes du XIXe siècle, Charles Renouvier, avait inventé un substantif féminin, l'uchronie, construit à partir du grec sur le modèle d'utopie, pour désigner l'histoire faite en pensée, telle qu'elle aurait pu être et qu'elle n'a pas été.

Spanish

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Record 14 2005-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tourism (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tourisme (Généralités)
DEF

Lieu où sont convoqués les voyageurs participant à un déplacement.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Turismo (Generalidades)
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Record 15 2005-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Crude Oil and Petroleum Products
DEF

Gas oil and diesel fuel of petroleum origin meeting international limits on the flash point of fuels for marine use. [Definition standardized by ISO. ]

OBS

marine distillate fuels: term rarely used in the singular (marine distillate fuel).

OBS

marine distillate fuels: term standardized by ISO.

Key term(s)
  • marine distillate fuel

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétroles bruts et dérivés
DEF

Gas-oil et carburant diesel d'origine pétrolière conforme aux limites internationales du point d'éclair des combustibles marine. [Définition normalisée par l'ISO.]

OBS

distillat marine : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petróleo bruto y derivados
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Record 16 2004-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
DEF

A characteristic temperature inversion usually present in the trade-wind streams over the eastern portions of the tropical oceans.

OBS

It is formed by broad-scale subsidence of air from high altitudes in the eastern extremities of the subtropical highs. While descending, the current meets the opposition of the low-level maritime air flowing equatorward. The inversion forms at the meeting point of these two strata which flow horizontally in the same direction.

Key term(s)
  • tradewind inversion
  • tradewinds inversion

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
DEF

Inversion de température dans une région des alizés due à la subsidence de l'air à partir de niveaux élevés.

CONT

L'inversion des alizés se produit sur la face équatoriale des anticyclones subtropicaux. Cette inversion de subsidence quasi permanente constitue la limite supérieure du domaine vertical des alizés.

OBS

L'inversion sépare l'air humide de l'alizé situé au-dessous, de l'air chaud et très sec situé au-dessus.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Física de la atmósfera
DEF

Inversión de la temperatura en el cinturón de los alisios producida por subsidencia del aire desde los altos niveles; la inversión separa el aire húmedo de los alisios que está debajo, del aire cálido y muy seco que está encima.

CONT

Las mayores características en el desarrollo de la fase en referencia se relacionan con el reforzamiento de las surgencias en el Pacífico ecuatorial, los aumentos positivos del índice de oscilación austral, el enfriamiento de las aguas del Pacífico oriental, el debilitamiento o la inversión de los alisios, el movimiento hacia el oriente de la zona de convección de los alisios y de la zona de mayor pluviometría, la disminución de la corriente subsuperficial ecuatorial, el bloqueamiento de la CIT, la generación de ondas Kelvin (los vientos occidentales producen corrientes superficiales que se desplazan al oriente) y la disminución de la lluvia en el Pacífco occidental.

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Record 17 2004-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cargo (Water Transport)
DEF

Condensation which occurs when a ship sails from a cool to a relatively warm climate.

OBS

The temperature of the cargo rises at a slower rate than that of the ship's environment and when the surface of the cargo is colder than the dew point of the surrounding air, moisture condenses directly on to the cargo. Opinions differ as to whether cargo should be ventilated when meeting these climatic conditions, so as to avoid damage caused by cargo sweat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cargaisons (Transport par eau)

Spanish

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Record 18 2002-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Naval Forces
Key term(s)
  • Mid-Ocean Meeting Point
  • MOMP
  • Mid Ocean Meeting Points
  • Mid Ocean Meeting Point

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forces navales

Spanish

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Record 19 1999-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architecture
DEF

An arch produced by two curves(usually circular curves with a radius equal to the span) meeting in a point at the top... Its use in Gothic cathedrals greatly contributed to the lightness of their structure.

OBS

Ogive: ... the term is sometimes loosely applied to any pointed arch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture
DEF

Arc brisé à deux segments, dans lequel peut s'inscrire un triangle équilatéral : le centre de chaque segment est placé à la naissance de l'autre; leur rayon est égal à la portée.

Spanish

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Record 20 1999-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of the Sea

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la mer

Spanish

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Record 21 1998-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
DEF

Stock exchange term for the practice at some exchanges-for example, Wall Street, Sydney and Melbourne-of transactions in a certain type of security being conducted at a particular meeting point on the floor of the exchange.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse

Spanish

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Record 22 1997-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
DEF

For a typical bimolecular reaction a potential-energy surface consists of two valleys meeting at a col or saddle point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
DEF

Pour une réaction bimoléculaire typique, la surface d'énergie potentielle comprend deux vallées qui se rencontrent à un col.

Spanish

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Record 23 1995-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
DEF

a supposedly very early primitive modern man based on skull fragments uncovered in a gravel pit at Piltdown and used in combination with comparatively recent skeletal remains of various animals ... in the development of an elaborate fraud.

DEF

a presumed fossil predecessor of modern man found in 1912 by Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith Woodward.

CONT

On December 18, 1912, a meeting was held in... London... Great Britain. Two man... Charles Dawson... and Arthur Woodward [announced that] at Piltdown Common..., they had discovered the first important fossil human skull ever to be unearthed in England.... With the Piltdown skull, Britain could point to a great contribution to the study of human evolution.... The specimen, known as Piltdown man, occupied an honored place in the catalogues of fossil hominids for the next forty years. But in 1953, thanks to some rigorous scholarly detective work, Piltdown man was revealed to be a forgery, manufactured from modern human and animal remains.... the perpetrators of the Piltdown hoax have finally been caught, and their reputations, once honored, are now besmirched.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
OBS

Piltdown : localité de Grande-Bretagne (East Sussex) [...] En 1912, Charles Dawson et Arthur Smith Woodward y découvrirent des ossements, auxquels ce dernier donna le nom d'Eoanthropus dawsoni, connu sous le nom d'homme de Piltdown. [...] Les plus récentes études chronologiques fondées sur la méthode du fluor, ont montré que les fragments de crâne sont, tout au plus, âgés de quelques millénaires. La mâchoire, qui est celle d'un orang-outan, aurait fait l'objet d'une mystification : les dents auraient été usées artificiellement. Dawson serait lui-même l'auteur de cette fraude.

Spanish

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Record 24 1994-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

... theorem that any continuous transformation of a circle (circumference and interior) into itself must have at least one fixed point.

CONT

The Dutch topologist L. E. J. Brouwer published in 1910 a recursive construction for cutting a region into three subregions in such an insane way that at the limit all three subregions touch at every point... Brouwer's construction generalizes to divide a region into n subregions, all meeting at every point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 25 1993-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
DEF

A point in a scale of rates beyond which progression is contingent upon meeting specified standards of proficiency and performance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
DEF

Un point de l'échelle des taux qui ne peut être dépassé que si certaines normes de compétence et de performance sont atteintes.

Spanish

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Record 26 1991-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statutes and Regulations (Rail Transport)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Législation et réglementation (Transport par rail)

Spanish

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Record 27 1986-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematical Geography
DEF

The process of guaranteeing a perfect meeting of the two lineal digital cartographic records. This is done by adding(join) or deleting(clip) recorded points so that the end point of one record lies on the second record.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie mathématique

Spanish

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Record 28 1984-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Acupuncture

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acupuncture
OBS

MEVEA (1983), 159, 9, 723

Spanish

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Record 29 1983-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

sides meeting at a point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 30 1983-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

meeting at a certain point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 31 1980-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rail Traffic Control
OBS

On engines so equipped, the headlight will be dimmed [when] approaching meeting and passing points, junctions, end of two or more tracks where trains or engines are clear, to assist in train identification by train and engine crews; (...)

Key term(s)
  • point of meeting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circulation des trains
OBS

Les locomotives qui peuvent le faire doivent mettre le phare avant en veilleuse (...) à l'approche des points de croisement et de dépassement (...), et à l'approche de l'extrémité de "deux voies ou plus" où se sont garés des trains ou des locomotives (...)

Spanish

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Record 32 1977-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A kainelliform suture is an] Opesthoparian suture in which [the] anterior sections first strongly diverge outward and then bend sharply inward and frontward, meeting [the] anterior cephalie margin at its median point,(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Suivant l'allure de son tracé, la branche antérieure [de la suture faciale d'un trilobite] appartient à l'un des types suivant (...) type "kainelliforme" (...): la suture commence par diverger vers l'avant puis, après une brusque inflexion (...), oblique vers l'axe du céphalon et atteint le bord frontal plus ou moins près du centre (...)

Spanish

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