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Record 1 2022-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
CONT

The unloading system must be an integral part of the stowage system and the receiving line at the processing plant. It must be designed to avoid extra handling of the catch. Conventional vertical unloading through a topside deck hatch may have to be altered.

PHR

fish unloading system

Key term(s)
  • off-loading system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Outillage industriel
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
PHR

système de débarquement des poissons

PHR

système de déchargement du crabe

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Target Acquisition
  • Weapon Systems
DEF

The total horizontal arc through which a gun mount may be rotated.

CONT

Trainable tubes require large clear deck areas, and in all ships retaining torpedoes they are mounted topside on the ship's centerline... From this location torpedoes can be fired through limited arcs of train on either side of the ship.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acquisition d'objectif
  • Systèmes d'armes

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ship and Boat Parts
CONT

Topside Tanks. As the name suggests, these are the tanks which are located on the topside corner of the ship. The topside tanks are triangular in shape fitted with wings on both sides of the cargo holds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parties des bateaux

Spanish

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Record 4 2019-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Combat Systems (Naval Forces)
  • Target Acquisition
CONT

The TDT is a manually controlled optical-sighting unit, located high on the ship’s superstructure at the AAW (antiaircraft warfare) station.

CONT

The target designation system provides a secondary source of target data to the [gun fire control system(GFCS) ] and [combat direction system(CDS) ] computers [and] consists of two target designation transmitters MK 24 mounted topside and one control unit MK 79.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes de combat (Forces navales)
  • Acquisition d'objectif

Spanish

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Record 5 2018-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
OBS

Tranche grasse(top rump). The part of the leg of beef which extends the whole length of the "tende de tranche"(topside) as far as the rump.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
OBS

mouvant : Partie de la tranche grasse du bœuf, correspondant au muscle vaste interne, et débitée en bifteck.

OBS

tranche grasse : Chez le bœuf, ensemble de trois muscles situés en avant de la cuisse, dans la région fémorale. Le rond, le plat et le mouvant de tranche donnent de très bons rôtis et des biftecks tendres et savoureux, assez maigres; le rond est moins homogène que les deux autres muscles. La tranche grasse fournit aussi des morceaux à brochettes ou à fondue bourguignonne, ainsi que de la viande hachée (pour hamburgers ou steaks tartares).

Spanish

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Record 6 2016-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Prepared Dishes (Cooking)
DEF

Beef cooked by roasting.

OBS

Cuts of beef for roasting are generally taken from the hindquarter and include fillet, sirloin, rump, topside and rib.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plats cuisinés
DEF

Morceau de bœuf rôti généralement coupé dans l'aloyau.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Platos preparados (Cocina)
DEF

Pieza de carne de vacuno asada.

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Record 7 2015-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
CONT

The centre cut steak is taken from the "thick flank, "between the rump and the topside and silverside. This produces a very lean steak.

CONT

The centre cut steak is a very lean and tender steak which is very popular on the continent and is called bullet steak (translated) as the muscle has the shape of a bullet.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ship and Boat Parts
DEF

In general usage, permanent structure-s above level-s of weather deck; for official purpose of determining freeboard (qv), any decked structure above freeboard deck and extending from side to side of vessel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parties des bateaux
DEF

Sur un navire, construction placée sur le pont supérieur, faisant corps avec la coque (château, dunette, etc.) et s'étendant sur toute la largeur du bâtiment.

Spanish

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Record 9 2015-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Propulsion of Water-Craft
  • Sea Operations (Military)
  • Combat Systems (Naval Forces)
CONT

The Seasparrow ship-launched point defence missile system, including the Nato Seasparrow for which Raytheon was the prime contractor, has been evolving over the years with various automatic and semi-automatic combat systems and has been adapted for vertical launching; this has the advantages of quick launch, reduced topside space and fast engagement of sea skimmers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Propulsion des bateaux
  • Opérations en mer (Militaire)
  • Systèmes de combat (Forces navales)
CONT

Le système naval de défense ponctuelle Seasparrow (en particulier le Nato Seasparrow dont Raytheon était maître d'œuvre) a évolué au fil du temps pour donner naissance à plusieurs systèmes de combat semi-automatiques ou automatiques et il a été adapté au lancement vertical.

Spanish

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Record 10 2015-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Propulsion of Water-Craft
  • Sea Operations (Military)
  • Combat Systems (Naval Forces)
CONT

The Seasparrow ship-launched point defence missile system, including the Nato Seasparrow for which Raytheon was the prime contractor, has been evolving over the years with various automatic and semi-automatic combat systems and has been adapted for vertical launching; this has the advantages of quick launch, reduced topside space and fast engagement of sea skimmers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Propulsion des bateaux
  • Opérations en mer (Militaire)
  • Systèmes de combat (Forces navales)
CONT

Le système naval de défense ponctuelle Seasparrow (en particulier le Nato Seasparrow dont Raytheon était maître d'œuvre) a évolué au fil du temps pour donner naissance à plusieurs systèmes de combat semi-automatiques ou automatiques et il a été adapté au lancement vertical.

Spanish

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Record 11 2012-01-10

English

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

A single layer or thickness of roofing material in a roofing membrane.

CONT

A roofing contractor should :... not use a coated sheet, glaze-coated or not, to provide overnight or short-term protection from rain(ideally, coated sheets used as the bottom ply in a built-up membrane should be coated on the underside only so the topside can adhere well to the other felts)...

OBS

ply: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Étanchéité (Construction)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
CONT

Couvertures confiées à un entrepreneur [...] Membranes de bitume [...] un minimum de 3 couches de feutre est exigé.

CONT

Les feutres enduits sont des feutres bitumés sur lesquels on a appliqué, généralement des deux côtés, un enduit d'asphalte à haut point de ramollissement qui contient un stabilisant minéral. Les feutres enduits sont souvent utilisés comme premier pli d'une étanchéité multicouche du fait que l'enduit protège le feutre au-dessus des joints de l'isolant rigide.

CONT

[...] étanchéité à 4 plis.

OBS

pli : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 12 2011-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electronics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électronique
DEF

Mesure de la densité électronique de l'ionosphère par étude des échos de signaux radio-électriques à plusieurs fréquences, émis et reçus à bord d'un satellite artificiel.

Spanish

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Record 13 2006-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

... the production system... would consist of a fixed production platform of topside facilities mounted on a gravity base structure(GBS) utilizing both platform and subsea wells.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
OBS

plate-forme : Structure utilisée pour le forage de puits sous-marins.

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

OBS

Équivalent confirmé par un terminologue à la compagnie Imperial Oil Ltée.

Key term(s)
  • puits foré à partir d'une plateforme

Spanish

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Record 14 2003-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys
  • Geophysics
  • Radio Waves
DEF

Record of the time delay (virtual height) of HF echoes from the ionosphere at varying frequencies. Recorded by an ionosonde.

CONT

Ionograms that have never been observed before in topside ionosonde soundings are presented. They were recorded on the onboard ionospheric sounder operated on the MIR manned space station.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
  • Géophysique
  • Ondes radioélectriques
DEF

Résultat graphique des mesures faites par un sondeur ionosphérique, dans lequel le temps écoulé entre l'émission d'une impulsion et le retour de l'écho est présenté en fonction de la fréquence émise.

Spanish

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Record 15 2003-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

All the equipment installed above the splash zone on an offshore platform.

OBS

Topside facilities include drilling, processing, and life support equipment, utilities, services and safety equipment.

Key term(s)
  • topside facility
  • topsides facility
  • topside
  • top side facility
  • top side facilities

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

Équipement de production du pétrole et du gaz et équipement auxiliaire, installés sur une structure extracôtière.

CONT

En mai 1999, l'Office [des hydrocarbures extracôtiers] acceptait la proposition [...] qui portait sur les efforts à déployer pour que les installations en surface et sous-marines, les systèmes d'ancrage et les tubes ascenseurs soient construits dans la province.

CONT

Les installations en surface et en profondeur, à tout puits de pétrole et de gaz, doivent être aménagées de façon qu'il soit possible de mesurer la pression d'obturation, la pression de fond ou la pression de régime, et d'effectuer les essais raisonnablement requis.

Key term(s)
  • installation en surface

Spanish

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Record 16 2003-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orbital Stations
  • Research Experiments in Space
CONT

DIDO Experiment Container is essentially a box with a side length of 150 mm. Design philosophy of DIDO experiment foreseen an "all inside" approach, so(at this moment) the experiment container is a mere box with no windows or openings, or relevant external features. DIDO EC is intended as a structural part for the inside experiment; only mechanical, electrical and data interfaces are required to connect DIDO EC with GLAD facility. The box is assembled as one piece but the topside is removable to have access to DIDO experiment. In this way the topside component works as a cover plate. The EC is made by(TBD) material and to meet safety requirements EC' s corners are slightly rounded, materials must not be flammable and machined with non-toxic surface treatment. Cover plate is connected with the box through screws. The bottom side, instead, compose the "first plate" of DIDO experiment, housing tanks and pumping system. Another plate placed about half height provides a "second plate" for DIDO cell and relative optics, laser unit and CCD camera.

OBS

Objectives of the experiment DIDO ... is the measurement of diffusion coefficients in a three-component solution. It’s impossible to carry out these measurements on Earth because in a diffusion boundary, when the transport is promoted by at least two independent driving forces, convention instabilities may arise, called "fingers" and "overstability."

OBS

DIDO experiment container: term officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group (ISSOAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations orbitales
  • Travaux de recherche dans l'espace
OBS

contenant expérimental DIDO : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale (GTTSSI).

Spanish

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Record 17 2003-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Ports
CONT

Topside includes skilled workers on board ship who operate the ship's gear and act as a signalperson. They include winch drivers, hatch tenders and ship gantry.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Ports

Spanish

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Record 18 2002-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Instruments
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
CONT

The Intercosmos-19 scientific equipment included the topside sounder IS-338(USSR), Langmuire probe P-4(Bulgaria, USSR), local temperature probe KM-3(USSR, Czechoslovakia), photometer EMO-1(Bulgaria), soft particle spectrometer SF-3(USSR)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments scientifiques
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
OBS

spectromètre de particules : Pour la première fois, un spectromètre de particules semblable à ceux qui sont utilisés autour des accélérateurs, en orbite à 400 km au-dessus de la Terre, a pu enregistrer la trace de millions de particules cosmiques. L'analyse des informations collectées révèle un comportement inattendu des particules subnucléaires dans le proche environnement terrestre, en particulier leur réaction au champ magnétique terrestre en fonction de la latitude.

Spanish

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Record 19 2002-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inks and Colour Reproduction (Graphic Arts)
  • Papermaking Machines
DEF

A watermark made with a rubber letterpress-type marking disk on the topside of the sheet at a point beyond the press section of the paper machine where the water content of the paper has been reduced below the level required for a true watermark.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Encres et couleurs (Industrie graphique)
  • Machines à papier

Spanish

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Record 20 1999-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

In a biological, molecular, or cellular automaton, a floating, encoding rule whose underside encodes the states and symbols that trigger it, and whose topside encodes the new state and the new symbol resulting from it.

CONT

In theory, perhaps 30 years from now, it would be possible to place a computer inside a cell, along with a suitable collection of rule molecules, and program it to generate particular RNA sequences in response to different circumstances. This RNA could be used by the cell’s internal machinery (as natural RNA is) to synthesize a useful protein. It could produce drugs on demand, inside the cell.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voir bio-ordinateur, automate cellulaire, ordinateur moléculaire.

Spanish

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Record 21 1998-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paperboard
DEF

A ply of good-quality fiber(usually white), on the topside.

OBS

As seen in a typical multi-ply paperboard.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Carton
CONT

On peut aussi obtenir des cartons à couches multiples [...] : duplex, triplex, multiplex. Un carton multiplex se compose généralement de quatre, parfois cinq couches : une couverture supérieure [...] provenant d'un jet de pâte blanchie, un demi-intérieur [...] formé de un ou deux jets de pâte de récupération [...] et enfin d'une couverture arrière [...]

Spanish

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Record 22 1996-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Propulsion of Water-Craft
  • Sea Operations (Military)
  • Combat Systems (Naval Forces)
CONT

The Seasparrow ship-launched point defence missile system, including the Nato Seasparrow for which Raytheon was the prime contractor, has been evolving over the years with various automatic and semi-automatic combat systems and has been adapted for vertical launching; this has the advantages of quick launch, reduced topside space and fast engagement of sea skimmers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Propulsion des bateaux
  • Opérations en mer (Militaire)
  • Systèmes de combat (Forces navales)
CONT

Ce type de lancement a plusieurs avantages: rapidité du tir, encombrement sur le pont réduit et réaction rapide contre les missiles anti-navires à vol rasant.

Spanish

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Record 23 1996-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Propulsion of Water-Craft
  • Sea Operations (Military)
  • Combat Systems (Naval Forces)
CONT

The Seasparrow ship-launched point defence missile system, including the Nato Seasparrow for which Raytheon was the prime contractor, has been evolving over the years with various automatic and semi-automatic combat systems and has been adapted for vertical launching; this has the advantages of quick launch, reduced topside space and fast engagement of sea skimmers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Propulsion des bateaux
  • Opérations en mer (Militaire)
  • Systèmes de combat (Forces navales)
CONT

Ce type de lancement a plusieurs avantages: rapidité du tir, encombrement sur le pont réduit et réaction rapide contre les missiles anti-navires à vol rasant.

Spanish

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Record 24 1992-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geophysics
  • Atmospheric Physics
DEF

Upper region of the heterosphere, at heights above 1000-3000 km, in which the dominant gas is ionized hydrogen.

CONT

Of particular interest are measurements of the integrated electron content of the outer regions of the earth’s envelope called by various names: for example, plasmasphere, protonosphere, exosphere. This region extends from the top of the ionosphere to several earth radii and terminates, somewhat sharply, at the plasmapause ...

CONT

The protonosphere, or uppermost region of the ionosphere, may contribute up to 50 percent of the electron content during the nighttime hours.

CONT

Above the topside [of the ionosphere] lies the protonosphere and the plasmasphere, which are not well defined boundaries and stretch for many thousands of kilometers in height.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géophysique
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
DEF

Région supérieure de l'hétérosphère, à des altitudes supérieures à 1000-3000 km, dans laquelle le gaz dominant est l'hydrogène ionisé.

CONT

Du point de vue électronique existent trois divisions : la neutrosphère, peu électrisée jusqu'à 60 km), l'ionosphère et la protonosphère (au-delà de 1500 km).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geofísica
  • Física de la atmósfera
DEF

Región superior de la heterosfera, a altitudes superiores a 1000-3000 km, en la que el gas predominante es el hidrógeno ionizado.

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Record 25 1992-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Spacecraft
DEF

Instrument on board a satellite measuring the ion concentration in the ionosphere.

Key term(s)
  • top-side sounder

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Engins spatiaux
DEF

Instrument embarqué sur un satellite pour mesurer la concentration d'ions dans l'ionosphère.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
  • Naves espaciales
DEF

Instrumento colocado a bordo de un satélite para medir la concentración de iones en la ionosfera.

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Record 26 1990-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautics and Aerospace Industry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aéronautique et aérospatiale

Spanish

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Record 27 1982-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Earth (Astronomy)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Terre (Astronomie)
OBS

d'un arc ou d'un ovale auroral

Spanish

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Record 28 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electronics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électronique

Spanish

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Record 29 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire

Spanish

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Record 30 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautics and Aerospace Industry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aéronautique et aérospatiale

Spanish

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Record 31 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glaciology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Glaciologie

Spanish

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Record 32 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux

Spanish

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Record 33 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
OBS

Harrap

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie

Spanish

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