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TU COMPANY [3 records]

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Record 1 2004-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Organization

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation militaire

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Metering
DEF

A unit of telephone traffic widely used in Europe which is numerically equal to the percentage occupancy.

OBS

This unit was named after Agner K. Erlang of the Copenhagen Telephone Company, and in the United States is known as "traffic unit"(TU). Another unit of measure used internationally and in formulas related to traffic tables, is the Erlang(abbreviated : E). It is a decimal number expressing the fraction of the hour of usage : Hence, 1 E=36 CCSm or 21. 6 CCS=6 E.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Téléphonométrie
DEF

Unité de mesure de l'intensité moyenne du trafic téléphonique.

OBS

[...] Un trafic de 0,1 erlang signifie que durant «l'heure chargée», la ligne est utilisée 10% du temps en moyenne. La «conversation heure» utilisée parfois en France et le «traffic unit» (TU) utilisé en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis sont équivalents à l'erlang.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Telefonometría
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Record 3 1991-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Statistics
CONT

"(...) The kit consisted of a questionnaire for each tabulation unit(TU) in the company and a Report Coverage Sheet which provided a list of TU's in the company. "(Report on the Design and Methodology of the 1988-1989 Human Resource Training and Development Survey, SSMD, Stat Can)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Statistique
OBS

traduction non officielle; le terme anglais semble officiel à cause des lettres majuscules mais on ignore s'il existe un équivalent français officiel

Spanish

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