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Record 1 2023-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Mammals
CONT

All baleen whales are bulk feeders that introduce a volume of of prey-ladden water that is subsequently filtered out of the mouth. This filtering is accomplished by vertically oriented baleen plates that overlap to form racks that hang from the upper jaw... Baleen plates have a straight outer edge, and a rounded inner edge, which is lined by a fringe of "hair. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Mammifères
CONT

Le fanon, d'origine épidermique, est une lamelle fibreuse incurvée dont le bord interne est découpé en filaments souples [...] Les fanons jouent le rôle de tamis à l'expulsion de l'eau de la cavité buccale et retiennent les petites proies, tel le krill.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Morfología y fisiología general
  • Mamíferos
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Record 2 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Bones and Joints
Universal entry(ies)
condylus
Latin
A02.0.00.029
classification system code, see observation
DEF

A rounded process at the end of a bone serving to form an articulation with another bone.

OBS

condyle: term derived from the Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

A02.0.00.029: Terminologia Anatomica identifying number.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Os et articulations
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
condylus
Latin
A02.0.00.029
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Saillie arrondie d'un os avec laquelle s'articule un autre os.

OBS

condyle : terme dérivé de la Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

A02.0.00.029 : numéro d'identification de la Terminologia Anatomica.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Morfología y fisiología general
  • Huesos y articulaciones
Entrada(s) universal(es)
condylus
Latin
A02.0.00.029
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Prominencia ósea convexa.

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Record 3 2022-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

Smooth rounded form of various types cut into bedrock by the combined erosive power of ice, meltwater and subglacial sediment under high pressure.

CONT

Three main hypotheses have been proposed to explain the genesis of p-forms and include; formation under debris rich basal ice ..., formation by subglacial meltwater erosion ..., and through abrasion by saturated till ... Given uncertainties regarding the origin of p-forms, several authors have suggested that the term p-form too strongly infers an origin by plastically deforming ice or till, and have introduced the term sculpted form or s-form ... in its place. However, the term s-form has itself come to infer a meltwater origin for these features ...

OBS

p-form: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

OBS

p-form; plastically moulded form; plastically molded form; plastically sculpted detail form: designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • p-forms
  • plastically moulded forms
  • plastically molded forms
  • plastically sculpted detail forms

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
OBS

forme de cavitation : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

OBS

forme de cavitation : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • formes de cavitation

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Bones and Joints
Universal entry(ies)
foramen frontale
Latin
A02.1.03.010
classification system code, see observation
OBS

frontal foramen; foramen frontale : These designations refer to the frontal notch(incisura frontalis) when it has a more rounded form.

OBS

frontal foramen: designation derived from the Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

A02.1.03.010: Terminologia Anatomica identifying number.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Os et articulations
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
foramen frontale
Latin
A02.1.03.010
classification system code, see observation
OBS

foramen frontal; foramen frontale : Ces désignations font référence à l'incisure frontale (incisura frontalis) lorsque cette dernière est de forme plutôt arrondie.

OBS

foramen frontal : désignation dérivée de la Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

A02.1.03.010 : numéro d'identification de la Terminologia Anatomica.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Morfología y fisiología general
  • Huesos y articulaciones
Entrada(s) universal(es)
foramen frontale
Latin
A02.1.03.010
classification system code, see observation
OBS

escotadura frontal; foramen frontal: designaciones derivadas de la Terminología Anatómica.

OBS

A02.1.03.010: número de identificación de la Terminología Anatómica.

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Record 5 2021-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Bones and Joints
Universal entry(ies)
incisura frontalis
Latin
A02.1.03.010
classification system code, see observation
OBS

This structure is sometimes named "frontal foramen"(foramen frontale) when it has a more rounded form.

OBS

frontal notch: designation derived from the Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

A02.1.03.010: Terminologia Anatomica identifying number.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Os et articulations
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
incisura frontalis
Latin
A02.1.03.010
classification system code, see observation
DEF

Échancrure étroite et peu profonde du bord supra-orbitaire de l'os frontal située un peu en dedans de l'incisure supra-orbitaire.

OBS

Cette structure est parfois appelée «foramen frontal» (foramen frontale) lorsqu'elle est de forme plutôt arrondie.

OBS

incisure frontale : désignation dérivée de la Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

A02.1.03.010 : numéro d'identification de la Terminologia Anatomica.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Morfología y fisiología general
  • Huesos y articulaciones
Entrada(s) universal(es)
incisura frontalis
Latin
A02.1.03.010
classification system code, see observation
OBS

escotadura frontal; foramen frontal: designaciones derivadas de la Terminología Anatómica.

OBS

A02.1.03.010: número de identificación de la Terminología Anatómica.

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Record 6 2018-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

Round/Globular... this type of plant material form has a distinct rounded or spherical shape. European beech(Fagus sylvatica), silver linden(Tilia tomentosa), Japanese maple(Acer palmatum), Cornelian cherry dogwood(Cornus mas), and Indian laurel fig(Ficus microcarpa) are all examples of globular plant form. Rounded plant forms are one of the most numerous types of plant forms and therefore typically constitute the majority of plants used in a design composition... rounded plants are nondirectional and neutral in their ability to lead the eye. Therefore globular plants can be easily used to give a design unity by their repetition throughout the composition. They can serve as the neutral, soft plant form against which the other more striking forms are opposed.

CONT

... rounded plant outlines have an affinity for rolling topography.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
CONT

Formes arrondies, ovoïdes. Celles sous lesquelles on schématise le plus couramment les feuillus. La masse du feuillage s'inscrirait sensiblement dans une sphère ou dans un volume semblable à un œuf. Leur port est équilibré et calme, traduisant comme une végétation bien répartie autour du tronc.

Spanish

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Record 7 2016-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Animal Pests (Crops)
  • Plant and Crop Production
Universal entry(ies)
Epitrix cucumeris
Latin
DEF

A small oval shining black flea beetle (Epitrix cucumeris) that injures the leaves of various plants.

CONT

The potato flea beetle is primarily a pest of potato but it also attacks cucumber, eggplant, pepper, tomato and such other plants as jimsonweed, tobacco, large white petunia, groundcherry and bittersweet... Feeding injury, whether by adults on potato leaves in spring or late summer, or by larvae on tubers and roots and transmission of plant pathogens, are all potential ways in which this flea beetle may reduce potato yields both in terms of quality and quantity. Adult feeding on leaves results in rounded feeding scars, 0. 1 to 5 mm in diameter, which usually penetrate through the leaf to form a hole.

OBS

potato flea beetle: term extracted from the “Glossaire de l’agriculture” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Animaux nuisibles aux cultures
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Epitrix cucumeris
Latin
CONT

L'altise de la pomme de terre attaque surtout la pomme de terre, mais aussi le concombre, l'aubergine, le poivron, la tomate et d'autres plantes comme la stramoine, le tabac, le grand pétunia blanc, la cerise de terre et le doux-amer [...] Les dégâts causés par l'altise en s'alimentant réduisent la quantité et la qualité des tubercules lorsque les insectes adultes se nourrissent des feuilles de pommes de terre au printemps et à la fin de l'été ou lorsque les larves se nourrissent sur les tubercules ou sur les racines; l'altise peut également transmettre des agents pathogènes aux plants. Les feuilles attaquées sont percées de petits trous de 0,1 à 5 mm de diamètre, et elles ont bientôt l'apparence de feuilles criblées de trous lorsque la population d'altises est élevée.

OBS

L'altise adulte est petite, car elle mesure 1,7 mm de long et 1 mm de large. Elle est noire, mais ses pattes et ses antennes sont brunes.

OBS

altise de la pomme de terre : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 8 2016-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Animal Pests (Crops)
Universal entry(ies)
Scrobipalpa ocellatella
Latin
CONT

The Beet Moth (Scrobipalpa ocellatella) is a moth of the family Gelechiidae with a wing span of between 11 and 13 mm found in coastal areas of western and southern Europe, north Africa and Asia Minor.

CONT

Beet Moth.... Narrow fore wings, yellowish grey, sprinkled with little rounded dark spots; light grey fore wings. The wings are bordered by long bristles.... Larva : following emergence, it invades the young leaves of the centre of the plant in which it forms irregular galleries. It also penetrates the petiole and the collar in which they form galleries of 1 to 3 cm in depth lined with a silken web.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Animaux nuisibles aux cultures
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Scrobipalpa ocellatella
Latin
OBS

teigne de la betterave; Scrobipalpa ocellatella : termes extraits du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduits avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 9 2012-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Erosion and Weathering (Geol.)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A crescentic mark in the form of a groove or channel with somewhat rounded bottom, formed by glacial plucking on a bedrock surface.

OBS

[This mark] is concave toward the direction from which the ice moved and it consists of two fractures from between which the rock has been removed

French

Domaine(s)
  • Érosion et corrosion (Géologie)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Empreinte en forme de croissant à concavité orientée vers l'amont et résultant du burinage saccadé d'un glacier sur le substrat rocheux.

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
  • Geology
DEF

A hollow, rounded or subrounded body, which has a lining of mineral crystals pointing inward ...

CONT

A geode is a rock whose crystal-filled interior can be hollow or filled. The crystals that form within the mineral crust of the geode is called cruze. From the outside, geodes look like rounded, but otherwise ordinary rocks.

OBS

Distinguished from vugs which are residual or solution cavities in veins or rocks, and may be crystal-lined.

OBS

Unlike a "druse," a geode is separable (by weathering) as a discrete nodule or concretion from the rock in which it occurs and its inner crystals are not of the same minerals as those of the enclosing rock. A geode tends to be slightly flattened with its equatorial plane parallel to the bedding.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
  • Géologie
DEF

Masse pierreuse sphérique ou ovoïde, creuse, dont l'intérieur est tapissé de cristaux.

CONT

[...] «des géodes», subsphériques, dont l'intérieur est creux et présente parfois des cristaux bien développés tels les géodes calcaires des «Terres Noires» jurassiques dont la cavité est souvent hérissée de cristaux limpides de quartz pyramidé [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mineralogía
  • Geología
DEF

Masa mineral hueca cuyas paredes internas están recubiertas por cristales.

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Record 11 2012-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glaciology
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

Hummocked polar ice subjected to weathering which has given the hummocks and pressure ridges a rounded form.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Glaciologie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Glace polaire dont les hummocks et les crêtes de pression ont pris des formes adoucies sous l'action des éléments atmosphériques.

Spanish

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Record 12 2011-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

an ornament of rounded form, common as the termination of a cupola or lantern.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

Sphère métallique formant la partie terminale d'un clocher ou placée sous la croix ou sur le paratonnerre.

Spanish

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Record 13 2011-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

Describes an igneous rock in which the phenocrysts consist of aggregates of smaller crystals arranged around larger euhedral crystals or form rounded eyelike branching forms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Qualifie une roche magmatique ou métamorphique à aspect tacheté.

Spanish

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Record 14 2011-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
  • Animal Biology
  • Plant Biology
DEF

Having a form resembling a string of beads, where the component parts or segments are more or less uniform in size and are spherical or rounded in shape.

OBS

[Said of] the roots of certain plants or the antennae of certain insects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
  • Biologie animale
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Qui ressemble à un chapelet ou à un collier.

CONT

[...] Barrois (1884) décrit comment les grandes orthoses maclées du granite porphyroïde de Rostrenen en Bretagne se retrouvent disséminées dans les schistes micacés voisins du contact, qui sont injectés en même temps par de gros filons de granite. Ils sont souvent isolés ou parfois associés à un peu de pâte granitique. Ils adoptent parfois une disposition singulière, celle de chapelets plus ou moins curvilignes, sortes de filons discontinus prolongeant à plusieurs mètres de distance la pointe terminale des filons granitiques injectant la roche. Ces filons sont nommés «filons moniliformes» par Barrois (du latin monile, signifiant collier).

Spanish

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Record 15 2010-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
DEF

A metamorphic process occurring in a dry snowpack with a weak temperature gradient where branched and angular snow crystals decompose into rounded shapes.

CONT

The rounding process builds rounded grains (rounds) which bond well to one another creating a snowpack (or layer) that is generally increasingly strong.

CONT

The following conditions promote rounding: - A weak temperature gradient generally less than 1 degree C per 10 cm (which moves water vapour slowly from warm areas to cold). - Dense, tightly packed snow. - Small grains (which produce denser snow). - A high snow temperature, typically above -10 degrees C (which promotes weaker temperature gradients).

CONT

As the temperatures penetrate the snowpack, it will promote rounding. [Example approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.]

OBS

equilibrium growth: This metamorphic process has always been believed to be driven by radius dependent vapor pressure gradients, but this is currently under investigation and is being re-thought by scientists.

OBS

In older popular literature originating mostly from the United States, the term "equitemperature metamorphism" has been used to describe the process of generating rounded forms... Since temperature gradients largely determine the rate of growth(even in wet snow), and therefore the form,... and since "equitemperature" conditions are nearly impossible to have in dry alpine snow, [this] term is not recommended [and was replaced in the late 1980 by rounding].

OBS

rounding: term officially approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.

Key term(s)
  • low temperature gradient metamorphism
  • radius dependent metamorphism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
DEF

Métamorphose de neige sèche commandée par un gradient faible (G<0,1 °C/cm) [dont] l'effet prédominant est l'effet de rayon de courbure qui conduit au frittage et à la formation de grains fins.

CONT

Métamorphose de faible gradient : vers les grains fins. Quand, pendant une assez longue période, la température à la surface de la neige reste faiblement négative (avec par exemple de faibles amplitudes entre le jour et la nuit) ou lorsque le manteau neigeux est très épais, les différences de températures au sein du manteau neigeux sont assez faibles. C'est dans ce cas que la neige subit la métamorphose de faible gradient (appelée aussi anciennement métamorphose d'isothermie). Alors, les particules reconnaissables vont s'arrondir (disparition des pointes, comblement des creux). La taille des grains devient relativement uniforme et nettement inférieure au mm. Les cristaux de neige obtenus s'appellent des grains fins [...]. C'est typiquement le genre de cristaux que l'on peut rencontrer dans la neige de piste damée ou dans celle que l'on peut découper en bloc pour construire un igloo. [...] L'arrondissement des grains et la diminution de leur taille rendent cette neige plus solide, plus dense (250 à 350 kg/m3) et, d'une certaine manière plus stable.

CONT

Le réchauffement du manteau neigeux favorise l'arrondissement des grains. [Exemple entériné par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.]

OBS

grain fin : Équivalent français de «rounded grain». Le «grain rond» français se rend par «wet grain» ou «melt-freeze particle».

OBS

arrondissement des grains : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.

Spanish

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Record 16 2009-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A small hill or eminence of more or less rounded form.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
OBS

Aux États-Unis et Canada une butte signifie une colline isolée, de cotés bien raides et avec un petit sommet plat. Une butte ressemble à une mesa, mais en moins grand. Les buttes se trouvent partout dans l'ouest des États-Unis, les îles de Hawaii, surtout près de Honolulu. On ne les trouve que rarement en Europe.

OBS

butte: terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 17 2008-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grain Growing
  • Agricultural Economics
DEF

Having a full rounded... form.

CONT

plump kernel; plump grain.

OBS

plump; PLMP: term and abbreviation used at the Canadian Grain Commission in the field of cereal terminology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des céréales
  • Économie agricole
CONT

Grain jaune, gros, court, renflé, bien plein, remarquablement obtus aux deux extrémités.

OBS

en parlant de grain.

OBS

ventru; PLMP : terme et abréviation en usage à la Commission canadienne des grains dans le domaine céréalier.

Spanish

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Record 18 2008-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
DEF

Snow crystal formed during the equitemperature metamorphism process.

CONT

Rounded Grains are those in which the original form is no longer discernible and the crystal takes on a generally rounded amorphous appearance. Rounded grains typically tend to be smaller grains and are usually significantly smaller than the original grain from which they formed. Typical grain size is often less than 1 mm. Commonly referred to as "rounds" these grains tend to be found in harder or stronger snowpack layers. Rounded grains typically form when there is a weak temperature gradient in the snowpack(<1 degree/10 cm). This weak temperature gradient occurs most often in areas where the snowpack is deep and temperatures are mild.

CONT

There is a strong layer of rounds at the base of the snowpack. [Example approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.]

OBS

rounded grain; round: terms officially approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
DEF

Cristal de neige résultant de la métamorphose de faible gradient.

CONT

Il y a une couche résistante de grains fins de forte cohésion située à la base du manteau neigeux. [Exemple entériné par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.]

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec «grain rond» qui se rend en anglais par «melt-freeze particle».

OBS

grain fin : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.

Spanish

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Record 19 2006-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Characteristics of Coal
DEF

Carbon residue of wood that has been charred, usually in the form of lumps [and that is] used as a heat source in charcoal grills.

CONT

Charcoal briquettes are in the form of small rounded lumps made from charcoal screenings and dust with starch and water, or tar as a binder. These briquettes are much denser than lump charcoal and are not liable to spontaneous heating or ignition, if properly manufactured.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Caractéristiques des charbons

Spanish

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Record 20 2005-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ballistics
  • Small Arms
DEF

Form of rifling with slightly rounded shallow grooves and lands.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Balistique
  • Armes légères
DEF

Type de rayage à rayures et cloisons peu profondes et légèrement arrondies.

OBS

rayures Metford : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères.

Key term(s)
  • rayure Metford

Spanish

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Record 21 2005-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radioactive Ores (Mining)
DEF

A roll orebody of the Wyoming type, which is bounded on the concave side by oxidized altered rock typically containing hematite or limonite, and on the convex side by relatively reduced altered rock typically containing pyrite and organic matter.

CONT

roll-type uranium ore: C-shaped deposit, most commonly in sandstones, formed by advancing mineralizing fluids. Deposition takes place where groundwaters encounter reducing conditions ...

OBS

Sandstone-uranium-vanadium-base metal deposits. - These deposits are found in terrestrial sediments ... Uranium-rich examples are called Colorado Plateau-type, carnotite-type, sandstone-type, Wyoming roll-front-type ... In deposits of this type one or two metals are present in economic amounts, whilst the others may be present in minor or trace quantities.

OBS

Within carbonatites, deposits are often crescentic or rounded in form, reflecting the distribution of host intrusive phases.... The deposits of this class are commonly groups of lenses or ore shoots of crescentic or annular form showing steep dips related to crystallization parallel to the walls of the intrusive complex, and are notable for great vertical continuity of the ore.

OBS

Orebodies of the Wyoming type are crescent-shaped in cross section and typically form in relatively thick, tabular, or elongate sandstone bodies, with the tips of the crescent thinning and becoming tangent to mudstone layers above and below.

PHR

Roll-front uranium deposit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais radioactifs (Mines métalliques)
CONT

Au Sud Texas, le gisement uranifère de Panna Maria, de type «roll», se serait formé selon ces processus biogéniques [...]

OBS

Sous-type rolls [...]. - Il est bien représenté au Wyoming. [...] Une des principales caractéristiques du sous-type est le caractère sécant de la minéralisation sur la roche-hôte, les gisements ayant une forme de croissant.

Spanish

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Record 22 2004-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
DEF

Cirrus, often shaped like a comma, terminating at the top in a hook, or in a tuft the upper part of which is not in the form of a rounded protuberance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
DEF

Cirrus, souvent en forme de virgules, terminés vers le haut par un crochet, ou par un flocon dont la partie supérieure n'est pas en forme de protubérance arrondie.

CONT

Les cirrus sont donc composés de millions de cristaux de glace et sont propulsés par des vents de haute altitude qui produisent ces traînées blanches. Les cirrus les plus remarquables sont les cirrus intortus, aux enchevêtrements capricieux, et les cirrus uncinus, en forme de crochet.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fenómenos meteorológicos, climáticos y atmosféricos
DEF

Cirrus, a menudo en forma de coma, que termina por la parte de arriba en un gancho o un copo cuya parte superior no tiene la forma de una protuberancia redondeada.

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Record 23 2001-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Breadmaking
  • Pastries
  • Brewing and Malting
CONT

Dissolve yeast cake in 1 c. of water, set aside.

OBS

This is another form of fresh yeast, compressed into a rounded shape rather than being sold in a block. It can be bought in most specialist oriental food shops.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Boulangerie
  • Pâtisserie
  • Brasserie et malterie

Spanish

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Record 24 1999-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Joining Elements (Mechanical Components)
  • Lathe Work (Machine-Tooling)
DEF

A British screw thread standardized to form and dimension.

CONT

The British Standard Whitworth thread(BSW) has a 55°-V form with rounded crests and roots.

CONT

The Whitworth 55° thread, similar ... to the United States standard form, the standard V form used is Great Britain.

CONT

Bolt threads have a distinctive nomenclature and have evolved in a variety of standardized patterns. The Whitworth thread, designed by Joseph Whitworth, in 1841, because the British standard, and the Sellers thread ... became the U.S. standard. The unified system ... was adopted by the U.S., Canada and Britain in 1948.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'assemblage (Composants mécaniques)
  • Tournage sur métaux
OBS

La figure 10.3i illustre le filet standard britannique Whitworth [...]

CONT

Normes britanniques [de filetages] BS. [...] [La] nomme B8 84 : 1956 "Parallel Screw threads of Whitworth form" [...] comprend les diamètres de base, limites et tolérances pour les filetages suivants : "BSW (British Standard Whitworth) ,coarse thread series" : pas normal; "BSF (British Standard Fine), fine thread series" : pas fin. [...] La norme BS 2779; 1956 "Fastening threads of BSP sizes" rappelle que le filetage Whitworth est un filetage en V, symétrique, dans lequel l'angle entre les flancs, mesuré dans un plan axial, est de 55 °; un sixième de l'angle du V est tronqué au sommet et à le base, le filetage étant arrondi également aux crêtes et aux fonds par des arcs circulaires se raccordant tangentiellement aux flancs, la profondeur théorique du filetage étant de 0,640 327 fois le pas normal.

Spanish

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Record 25 1999-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

Trichocerus pascana ... Description: A large, columnar plant to 10 meters high. Has 20 to 38 ribs on thick 30cm stems. Close set areoles with variable, yellow-brown spines to 14 cm long. This edible Cactus has nocturnal white flowers that sprout-from the top of the stems.

CONT

A columnar plant form is the same as a fastigiate form except that it has a rounded top. A sentry maple(Acer saccharum monumentale) and Hicks yew(Taxus media hicksi) are examples of columnar plants. Columnar plant forms have the same design uses as fastigiate forms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
CONT

Neoraimondia Gigantea [...] Description : Plante colonnaire atteignant 8m de hauteur et ramifiée dès la base. Peu de cotes et des aiguillons gris à noirs.

Spanish

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Record 26 1998-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
DEF

... a ferruginous concretion(found in Jurassic and Tertiary sands), often of rounded and rectangular or boxlike form, having a hollow interior in which white powdery sand is sometimes present...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie

Spanish

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Record 27 1998-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foundry Practice
DEF

Irregularly distributed depressions, elongated or rounded in form, which generally follow the course of the liquid metal in filling dead spots in the mould or are located at areas remote from the gates. Before cleaning, the depressions are filled with oxide scale.

Key term(s)
  • crow’s foot
  • flow mark

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fonderie
DEF

Dépressions irrégulièrement réparties allongées ou en forme de calottes suivant en règle générale le chemin que parcourt le métal liquide et se situant dans les angles morts et dans les régions éloignées des attaques. Avant ébarbage il y a de la calamine dans les cicatrices.

Key term(s)
  • cicatrice

Spanish

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Record 28 1998-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
DEF

Costochondral separations are typical of scurvy. The sternum with the cartilaginous portions of the ribs is displaced posteriorly, while the sharp anterior ends of the bony ribs protrude anteriorly. These sharp bony ends form the scorbutic rosary, in contrast to the rounded prominences of the rachitic rosary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
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Record 29 1998-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Joining Elements (Mechanical Components)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

The unified thread form accompanied by the unified thread standards has in the past fulfilled the necessary requirements for interchangeability of threaded products between the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. This modified thread form represented two compromises between British Whitworth and United Stated National thread forms. The British accepted the 60° thread angle of the American thread, and the Americans accepted a rounded root and crest similar to the Whitworth form. The United States National unified form for external threads has a rounded root and may have either a rounded or flat crest. The unified thread contours provide advantages over both the earlier forms.... The unified thread is a general-purpose thread that is particularly suited for fasteners.

CONT

Unified and American National screw thread standards ... consist of six series of threads and a selection of special threads that cover nonstandard combinations of diameter and pitch. In general, the unified screw threads are limited to three series; coarse (UNC), fine (UNF), and extrafine (UNEF).

OBS

Under the unified system, threads are specified by giving in order the nominal diameter, number of threads per inch, the initial letters such as UNC or UNF that identify the series, and class of thread (IA, 2A, and 3A or 1B, 2B and 3B). ... the specification for a left-hand thread must have the letters LH included.

OBS

See also "8UN", "12UN", and "16UN", which designate the 8-, 12-, and 16-thread series.

CONT

[Example of a thread identification by standardized symbols]:1/2-13UNC-2ALH.

OBS

unified thread: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'assemblage (Composants mécaniques)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
CONT

Depuis 1949, le Royaume-Uni, le Canada et les Etats-Unis se sont mis d'accord sur ces filetages et leur désignation : «UNC» pour "Unified coarse thread [...] «UNF» pour «Unified fine thread» [...] «UNEF» pour «Unified extra-fine» [...] «UN» pour «Unified constant pitch» [...] Ces filetages figurent [...] dans la norme américaine ASA B1.1-1960 qui concerne les filetages unifiés.

CONT

Le filetage «Unified National» comprend les séries à filets gros et les séries à filets fins.

OBS

filetage en inches à profil UNJ : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 30 - external organization data 1998-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Transport of Goods
  • Radiation Protection
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

Test for Special Form Radioactive Material.... Percussion test. The material is placed on a lead sheet which is supported by a smooth essentially unyielding surface and struck by the flat face of a steel billet so as to produce an impact equivalent to that resulting from a free fall of 1. 4 kg through 1 m. The flat face of the billet is 25 mm in diameter with the edges rounded off to a radius of 3 mm. The lead, of hardness number 3. 5 to 4. 5 on the Vickers scale and not more than 25 mm thick, covers an area greater than that covered by the material. A fresh surface of lead is used for each impact. The billet strikes the material so as to cause maximum damage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Transport de marchandises
  • Radioprotection
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

Épreuves pour les matières radioactives sous forme spéciale. [...] Épreuve de percussion. Les matières sont posées sur une feuille de plomb reposant sur une surface lisse, foncièrement rigide; on les frappe avec la face plane d'une barre d'acier, de manière à produire un choc équivalent à celui que provoquerait un poids de 1,4 kg tombant en chute libre d'une hauteur de 1 m. La face plane de la barre a 25 mm de diamètre et son arête fait un arrondi de 3 mm. Le plomb, d'une dureté de Vickers de 3,5 à 4,5, est d'une épaisseur maximale de 25 mm et couvre une surface plus grande que celle que couvrent les matières. À chaque épreuve, il faut placer les matières sur une partie intacte du plomb. La barre doit frapper les matières de manière à provoquer le plus de dommages possible.

Spanish

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Record 31 1996-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symbols, Motifs and Ornaments (Arts)
  • Ceramics (Industries)
DEF

Shaped with projections of rounded form.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symboles, motifs et ornements (Arts)
  • Céramique (Industries)

Spanish

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Record 32 1996-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Period Costumes (Museums and Heritage)
DEF

The front piece of a helmet.

CONT

... many bascinets came a visor, at first rounded but after the middle of the century often of the curious snouted form....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Costumes anciens (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
DEF

Pièce de casque qui se haussait et se baissait à volonté devant le visage.

Spanish

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Record 33 1994-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Criminology
DEF

A method of stealing significant assets in small amounts, over time, so that their loss is not noticed.

DEF

In computer security, a form of Trojan Horse which has the effect of adding small amounts to a fraudster's account over long periods. The fractions of lowest denomination coins, produced by arithmetic processing, are rounded off and then credited to the perpetrator's account.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Criminologie
DEF

Fraude informatique consistant à transférer des petites sommes à partir d'un grand nombre de sources.

Spanish

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Record 34 1993-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Jewellery
  • Gemmology
DEF

A form of cutting in which the upper surface forms a rounded dome. The base may be flat, convex or concave.

CONT

until the late middle ages gems of all kinds were cut either en cabochon ... or ... into flat platelets. [modern gem cutting, the cabochon method continues to be used for opaque, translucent and some transparent stones].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Joaillerie et bijouterie
  • Gemmologie
OBS

Employée surtout pour des pierres opaques, semi-transparentes ou transparentes à coloration intense, elle [la taille en cabochon] consiste à faire prendre une forme arrondie à la partie supérieure et plate à la partie inférieure; on obtient des formes en hémisphères ou semi-ovoïdes, aux courbures variables.

CONT

la taille en cabochon [...] comporte à sa partie supérieure une surface convexe, à la partie inférieure une surface convexe moins prononcée ou une surface plane.

Spanish

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Record 35 1992-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Processing
DEF

A hollow wrought product of uniform cross-section with only one enclosed void along its whole length, and with a uniform wall thickness, supplied in straight lengths or in coiled form.

OBS

The cross-section are in the shape of circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, equilateral triangles or regular polygons.... Hollow products with a square, rectangular, equilateral triangular or regular polygonal cross-sections, which may have corners rounded along their whole length, are also to be considered as tubes, provided the inner and outer cross-sections are concentric and have the same form and orientation.

OBS

Term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation des métaux
DEF

Produit creux corroyé de section transversale constante avec un seul creux fermé sur toute sa longueur et dont les parois ont une épaisseur constante, livré en longueurs droites ou enroulé.

OBS

Les sections transversales peuvent se présenter sous forme de cercle, d'ovale, de carré, de rectangle, de triangle équilatéral ou de polygone régulier (...) On considère également comme tubes les produits creux de section transversale carrée, rectangulaire, triangulaire équilatérale ou polygonale régulière, qui peuvent présenter des angles arrondis sur toute leur longueur, pour autant que les sections transversales intérieure et extérieure soient concentriques et aient la même forme et la même orientation.

OBS

Terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 36 1992-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

A columnar plant form is the same as a fastigiate form except that it has a rounded top. A sentry maple(Acer saccharum monumentale) and Hicks yew(Taxus media hicksi) are examples of columnar plants. Columnar plant forms have the same design uses as fastigiate forms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
CONT

Formes dressées, élancées, fastigiées. Elles sont nettement plus hautes que larges et expriment un mouvement vertical très accusé, comme un jaillissement à partir du sol. Elles font songer à des colonnes et présentent à ce titre un caractère architectural.

Spanish

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Record 37 1989-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
DEF

A hex key with a tip rounded into the form of a hexagon-shaped ball for easier insertion into or removal from screw sockets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main

Spanish

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Record 38 1986-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Mathematical Geography
DEF

A method of digitizing where each recorded position is rounded off to the nearest intersection of a grid specified in multiples of resolution units(which form the basic resolution grid inherent in any digitizer). Rarely used in cartography, because normally the full resolution is needed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Géographie mathématique

Spanish

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Record 39 1986-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 40 1978-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

A form genus of Carboniferous plants based on elongated cylindrical, and sometimes branched structures that have rounded depressions scattered over the surface and are generally conceded to be underground portions of lepidodendrids(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Nom donné à des portions de végétaux fossiles, [qui] représentent des racines de sigillaires ou de lépidodendrons.

Spanish

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Record 41 1977-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
OBS

Groups in the Cameroon grasslands area.... The Bamum, a large kingdom whose dynasty is from Tikar, has developed roundness of sculptural form almost to its extreme, producing figures with big, inflated cheeks. Among the Tikar, Bekom, and Babanki, the forms are rounded but not exaggerated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
OBS

Les Ba Vouté [...] se heurtent ensuite aux Tikar et aux Beti puis descendent jusqu'à la Sanaga [...]

Spanish

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Record 42 1977-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Brachiopods of the] superfamily spiriferacea [have a] shell form [that is] variable but generally rather transverse with either angular or narrowly rounded cardinal extremities and [a] hinge line equal to or slightly less than [the] maximum width; lateral slopes [are] invariably costate or plicate; [a] fold and sulcus [is] generally present, tending to be bald in earlier forms, costate or plicate in later ones; [the] pedicle valve interior [is] with or without dental plates, commonly without [a] median septum; [the] brachial valve interior [has a] striate cardinal process, [and is] with or without crural plates; [the] shell substance [is] generally impunctate. "L. Sil.-U. Perm. ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Brachiopodes de la] super-famille des spiriferacea [ont des] crura en continuation directe avec les lamelles primaires qui sont entre les spires brachiales.

Spanish

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