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TRACK ORIENTATION [4 records]

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Record 1 2004-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sorting Machines and Equipment
  • Applications of Automation
CONT

Systems for parts feeding are usually built around a vibrating bowl with a spiral track, which is tooled to allow correctly oriented components to pass and incorrectly oriented parts to fall back into the bowl. In this way parts are always presented with the correct orientation at the top of the spiral track.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils et machines à trier
  • Automatisation et applications
DEF

Dispositif de positionnement de petites pièces pour l'alimentation d'une machine comportant un récipient vibrant faisant tomber les pièces dans des goulottes dont la forme contraint ces pièces à s'orienter.

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
  • Field Artillery
CONT

Even with greater emphasis on recognition training, it is impossible to identify an armoured fighting vehicle as being friend or foe beyond the thermal recognition range, currently 800 to 1500 metres(depending on weather conditions and object vehicle orientation). Despite this inability to positively identify a vehicle beyond a certain range, the tube-launched optically-tracked wire-guided(TOW) system can still track and engage a heat source out to 3750 meters. The night observation device long range(NODLR) with its thermal sight can also be used to adjust artillery fire out to 4 km...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique
  • Artillerie de campagne
OBS

dispositif d'observation nocturne longue portée : terme uniformisé par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

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Record 3 1997-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Programs and Courses
  • Training of Personnel

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes et de cours
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
OBS

Titre d'un cours.

Spanish

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Record 4 1985-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
OBS

track orientation in the DAC is accomplished with fields and zones that uniquely define any portion of a track.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
OBS

le repérage des données sur la piste se fait dans le DAC, grâce à un découpage de la piste en zones et sous-zones

Spanish

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