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PORTABLE OFFICE [11 records]

Filter results by subject field Alphabetical list of terms

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2011-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
DEF

Portable terminals and networked equipment enabling automated office functions to be carried out in different locations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
DEF

Matériel (terminaux portables, équipement central) permettant d'effectuer des tâches de bureau automatisées en des lieux différents.

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
  • Manias
  • Telephones
DEF

compulsive phone user.

CONT

Budget Rent a Car has good news for phoneaholics. Portable cellular phones are available to customers in a number of U. S., Canadian and U. ’K. airport and downtown locations. The phones are walkie-talkie size and can go anywhere you go. Among other things, that means your office needs only one phone number for you while you’re in distant parts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Manies
  • Téléphones
OBS

Le mot «accro» est entre guillemets dans la source.

Spanish

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Record 3 1994-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment
CONT

Boiling water(nonpressure) type sanitizers are further identified as small portable office instrument sanitizers and installed utensil sanitizers. Both units consist basically of a boiler or container equipped with a cover which is not airtight and a heat source.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical
CONT

Les appareils de stérilisation par eau bouillante (sans pression) se présentent sous forme portative, comme dans les cabinets de médecins, et sous forme d'installation fixe. Dans un cas comme dans l'autre, l'appareil est constitué principalement d'un récipient fermé par un couvercle non hermétique et d'une source de chaleur.

Spanish

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Record 4 1994-02-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Office Automation
CONT

Portable computing today is a different world. The trend in business is that the office is disappearing... which makes PC networking or LAN cards and adapter cards for multimedia computing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Bureautique

Spanish

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Record 5 1992-11-23

English

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

The Life Sciences Program Office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Office of Manned Space Flight is vitally interested in promoting and developing new ideas which will advance the technology in thermal control systems for portable life support systems, many excellent concepts and operating subsystems for crew equipment technology have been translated into successful hardware demonstration in NASA laboratories and by associated contractors.

French

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

Bureau du programme des sciences spatiales de la vie : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie spatiale (CUTS).

Spanish

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Record 6 1990-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meetings
OBS

portable exhibition of photographs; Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Namibia publication in E/F/S/G

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réunions

Spanish

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Record 7 1987-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

Portable Fire Extinguisher system... 2a) Obtain fire pack arming key from control center office. b) Arm all fire packs by turning arming key ’on’. Arm indicator light should be ’on’. Note : This key stays with control box. c) Turn key on central alarm control box to "standby". 3. Return arming key to control center office.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

La clé d'armement met le «système de protection incendie-avion au sol» prêt à fonctionner.

OBS

clé d'armement du groupe d'extincteurs : terme accepté par le Comité d'étude de la terminologie des cartes de travail du DC-9.

Spanish

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Record 8 1985-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware
CONT

A dictation unit designed for in-the-field use. Portable dictation units vary in weight from about one-half pound to two pounds, and come in sizes small enough to fit in a shirt pocket or purse to as big as a cigar box. Recordings are made on magnetic or plastic belts, or on magnetic tape reels, discs, cassettes or micro-cassettes. Each of these media is easily mailed or forwarded back to a central office for transcription on a compatible desktop unit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique

Spanish

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Record 9 1983-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Equipment and Supplies
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
OBS

essential parts [of a typewriter] may be combined into a lightweight frame that is housed in a portable case(...) or into a heavy frame of about a cubic foot for office use

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
OBS

(...) une machine à écrire (...) comporte (...) un châssis (ou bâti) fixe, résistant, métallique (...) aussi léger que possible. Il contient les différents organes de la machine.

Spanish

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Record 10 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Layout of the Workplace
  • Types of Constructed Works

French

Domaine(s)
  • Implantation des locaux de travail
  • Types de constructions

Spanish

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Record 11 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Workplace Organization

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation du travail et équipements

Spanish

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