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RELAY COMPUTER [7 records]

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Record 1 2014-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Telecommunications
CONT

Those who sign up for this service will need to obtain and pay for their own high-speed Internet service and an Internet-connected device needed for VRS [Video Relay Service], such as a computer, smartphone, tablet or videophone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
  • Télécommunications
CONT

Une adresse IP [Internet Protocol] doit être attribuée à chaque dispositif branché à Internet. Ces adresses sont constituées d'un ensemble unique de numéros d'identification qui permet au dispositif en question de transmettre et de recevoir des données au moyen du système IP.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Radio Broadcasting
CONT

What has made the new global radio stations possible is that, unlike old-fashioned wireless radio, the new radio stations broadcast their signals not over the airways but down the telephone lines. No costly radio transmitters and relay stations are needed; no licence is required for using the world's precious frequency spectrum. All it demands is a personal computer and a modem at the broadcasting station and, at the listening end, the same plus a pair of loud-speakers.

OBS

Global radio is the latest manifestation of the www. The key has been the development of a certain piece of software that allows a digital recording stored on a computer to be transmitted over the Internet and played instantly and continuously as it is received by the listener’s computer in real-time.

OBS

If you take a local FM station as the standard you will be disappointed with the broadcast quality of streaming audio received via the Web. But you will be favorable impressed if you compare it with a portable shortwave receiver.

OBS

web radio: The Translation Bureau recommends in its revised 2013 Linguistic Recommendation that “web” not be capitalized when it is part of a compound, whether the compound is written as two words or one, with or without a hyphen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
  • Radiodiffusion
OBS

radio Web : Le Bureau de la traduction préconise dans sa Recommandation linguistique révisée en 2013 la majuscule initiale lorsque «Web» est employé après un nom qu’il qualifie. Il est toujours invariable.

OBS

webradio : Le Bureau de la traduction préconise dans sa Recommandation linguistique révisée en 2013 la minuscule initiale lorsque «web» est utilisé comme préfixe pour former des termes dérivés.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Peripheral Equipment
  • Time-Controlled Automated Systems
  • Computer Programs and Programming
DEF

A control device, that employs the hardware architecture of a computer and a relay ladder diagram language.

OBS

The integrated system of automation, ... can be supplied either with a traditional control unit with hardwired logic or with a control unit which can be programmed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Périphériques (Informatique)
  • Automatismes à programme chronométrique
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
OBS

Cet automatisme intégral [...] peut être obtenu soit de manière classique à partir d'un automate à logique câblée soit à partir d'un automate programmable.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo periférico (Computadoras)
  • Sistemas automatizados cronométricos
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
DEF

Unidad de control diseñada como reemplazo directo para un panel de relevadores en las aplicaciones de control industrial.

CONT

Los controladores programables están programados generalmente directamente desde diagramas escalonados o instrucciones lógicas parecidas al idioma inglés.

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Record 4 2010-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Switching
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

In the context of computer networking,... consists of an efficient data transmission technique used to send digital information quickly and cheaply in a relay of frames to one or many destinations from one or many end-points.

OBS

Frame relay puts data in a variable-size unit called a frame and leaves any necessary error correction (retransmission of data) up to the end-points, which speeds up overall data transmission.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commutation (Télécommunications)
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Mode de transfert de données basé sur la commutation par paquets permettant de transmettre, à haut débit et sur de grandes distances, des quantités importantes de données.

OBS

[...] le contrôle des paquets de données (trames) [est effectué] uniquement au départ et à l'arrivée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Conmutación (Telecomunicaciones)
  • Internet y telemática
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Record 5 2009-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

Any computer that passes mail onwards to another destination. (J.S. Quarterman, The E-Mail Companion, 1994, p. 296).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
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Record 6 1989-05-08

English

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

All routine meteorological data are input under authorized group headings and the computer is programmed to recognize these headings and to relay or "switch" each one according to a prescribed pattern of distribution.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Classification des documents (Bibliothéconomie)

Spanish

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Record 7 1980-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Relays
OBS

DC power for relay operation is taken from the main electrical load centre through the COMPUTER CONTROL 1 DC and COMPUTER CONTROL 2 DC circuit breakers on the rack 7 circuit breaker panel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relais (Distribution électrique)

Spanish

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