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Record 1 2011-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plywood
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

A method by which the veneer peeler operator increases the infeed of the peeling knife excessively to speed up the rounding of a log.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contreplaqués
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Méthode employée par le conducteur d'un chariot de déroulage des billes qui utilise un couteau de manière brutale afin d'accélérer l'arrondissement d'une bille.

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gemmology
  • Diamond Industry
DEF

The process of creating the girdle at the widest dimension of a diamond, perpendicular to the table ...

CONT

Describe bruting: the process of creating a girdle at the widest dimension of a diamond, perpendicular to the table; a) when referring to the process of making the diamond round, it is called bruting; b) when referring to the process of finishing the girdle, it is called girdling.

CONT

Basically bruting consists of making the girdle of a diamond round in order to keep the largest diameter possible. On this table the polisher will later polish facets. Bruting aims at giving the stone a preform which can be used for the final form, respecting the right porportions.

OBS

fashioning: an industry term for bruting.

OBS

girdling: the term already means the final bruting step, but some authors do not make this distinction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gemmologie
  • Industrie diamantaire
DEF

Étape de la taille du diamant visant à lui donner sa forme générale, en formant le rondis.

CONT

Le débrutage signifie, en fait, arrondir (la ceinture) le rondiste du diamant de sorte qu'il conserve la plus grande table possible. Sur cette table, le tailleur apporte ultérieurement les facettes. En d'autres termes, le débrutage sert à préparer une ébauche de la forme définitive, tout en respectant les proportions correctes.

OBS

Ce procédé est souvent automatisé.

Spanish

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Record 3 - external organization data 2006-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
02.09.04 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

delete or omit one or more of the least significant digits in a positional representation and to adjust the part retained in accordance with some specified rule

OBS

The purpose of rounding is usually to limit the precision of the numeral or to reduce the number of characters in the numeral, or to do both these things.

OBS

The most common arithmetic forms of rounding are rounding down, rounding up and rounding off.

OBS

round: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO 2382-2:1976].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
02.09.04 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

supprimer ou omettre un ou plusieurs des chiffres de plus faible poids dans une représentation pondérée et ajuster la partie conservée selon une règle donnée

OBS

Le but de l'arrondi est généralement de limiter la précision du numéral, ou d'en réduire le nombre de caractères, ou bien les deux à la fois.

OBS

Les formes d'arrondi les plus courantes en arithmétique sont l'arrondi par défaut, l'arrondi par excès et l'arrondi au plus près.

OBS

arrondir : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO 2382-2:1976].

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports (General)
CONT

The eight men's quarterfinalists are from three conferences-the Big Ten, Big 12 and Southeastern. Indiana's Rahman Smiley picked up a 6-3, 3-6, 1-0(10-8) third round win over LSU's Bryan Fisher. Three of the top four seeds : No. 1 Keith From of Texas A&M, No. 2 Amer Delic of Illinois and No. 4 Mike Domanski of Texas also advanced to tomorrow's quarterfinals. Rounding out the final eight are Tennessee's Wade Orr, Illinois’ Michael Calkins, Florida's Matt Behrman and Michigan State's Jimmy McGuire.

OBS

Related term: Quarterfinal Round of eight.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports (Généralités)
CONT

Un vent nouveau souffle sur l'élite du rugby européen: deux des huit qualifiés, Biarritz et Gloucester, accèdent pour la première fois aux quarts de finale.

OBS

Terme connexe : ronde des huit.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes (Generalidades)
CONT

En los cuartos de final, llegó a su fin el mito de la invencibilidad de los equipos llenos de millonarios de la liga estadounidense NHL y la República Checa goleó a Estados Unidos por 4-1, mientras Finlandia venció a los suecos 2-1. Cuando terminó la ronda de los ocho mejores, solo el superfavorito Canadá y Rusia están defendiendo el honor de los jugadores de la NHL. En las semifinales Canadá se medirá a los siempre peligrosos checos y los rusos se enfrentarán con sus vecinos finlandeses.

PHR

ronda de los ocho mejores.

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Record 5 1986-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Husbandry
OBS

roundings: arrondis

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des animaux

Spanish

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Record 6 1978-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Breadmaking
CONT

Make-up includes the steps of dividing, rounding and moulding.(...) Dividing splits the dough up into pieces of the required weight, and moulding converts these pieces into the required shape.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Boulangerie
DEF

Étape de la préparation de pain où (...) la pâte est découpée en pâtons du poids ou du volume approprié, et façonnée avant sa mise en moules.

Spanish

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