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SLOPED SURFACE [7 records]

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Record 1 2018-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marine Terminals
  • Ports
DEF

A sloped surface structure or man-made improvement to a shoreline area that facilitates the launching and landing of boats into or from a water body.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gares maritimes
  • Ports

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones marítimas
  • Puertos
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Record 2 2017-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Switchgear (Rail Transport)
DEF

A sloped or beveled surface on the heel of a frog providing a rising approach for the false flanges of wheels entering from the heel end.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de voie (Transport par rail)
DEF

Cette pièce est une véritable entretoise. En plus de maintenir l'écartement des rails à la sortie du cœur de croisement, elle assure le surhaussement des roues (leurs faux-boudins n'allant pas percuter contre l'autre file de rail).

OBS

Explications de B.F. Hansen, Entretien des rails et selon les dessins en annexe du dossier AIGU 19315.

OBS

entretoise de surhaussement : terme uniformisé par le CN.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Practice
  • Walls and Partitions
DEF

A coping stone having its top surface sloped with its high point along the ridge, so that rainwater spills on either side.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maçonnerie
  • Murs et cloisons
DEF

Assise supérieure d'un muret ou d'un parapet dont le haut a un profil bombé [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Albañilería
  • Paredes y mamparas
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Record 4 1996-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Waste Management
  • Nuclear Waste Materials
CONT

Figure 6. 1 illustrates a typical open disposal trench at the Barnwell facility. The trench floor is sloped slightly and covered with a layer of sand to facilitate collection of percolating water in a french drain. A number of pipes allow any water that may collect in the french drain to be removed and analyzed. Presently waste, primarily in boxes, drums and cask liners, is stacked neatly in the trench, starting at the high end and progressing toward the low end. High specific activity waste is usually placed at the bottom of the trench. A separate narrower shielded trench is used at Barnwell for waste that has very high dose rates at the package surface. As the level of the waste reaches the design level, 2 m below grade, a layer of dry soil is added and allowed to filter down between the waste containers. When a trench is filled, it is covered with a cap of at least 0. 6 m of compacted native clay, followed by at least 0. 9 m of soil.

OBS

"Disposal" usually refers to permanent storage.

Key term(s)
  • open trench

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des déchets
  • Déchets nucléaires
OBS

On doit reserver le terme «évacuation» au stockage permanent.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión de los desechos
  • Desechos nucleares
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Record 5 1991-04-09

English

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

Where the land surface being uncovered by the receding ice sheet sloped towards the ice rather then away from it, meltwater was ponded along the ice front to form glacial lakes. The sediment loads from the subglacial streams were rapidly ejected into the lakes below their surfaces. Such deposits have been termed subaqueous outwash(or subwash).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Glaciologie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie

Spanish

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Record 6 1990-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
DEF

Lightweight fill placed on the surface of a roof deck to create slopes to roof drains. Also used to achieve the sloped fill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)

Spanish

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Record 7 1985-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architecture

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture
OBS

document de travail "Aménagement pour accès facile", Norme de dessin no D-10, Travaux publics Canada, avril 1981 (accessibilité pour les personnes handicapées).

Spanish

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