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TUBE CELL [22 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2023-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
CONT

In the solvent spinning process, the liquid filaments/fibers formed as the solution is pressed through the spinnerets are solidified either by coagulation in suitable baths(wet-spinning process...) or by evaporation of the solvent in a spinning tube or cell. This method is known as dry spinning.

CONT

Solvent spinning is typically used when the polymer being spun into fibers has a decomposition point near or below the melting point of the material.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Filature (Textiles)

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security Devices
  • Building Hardware
  • Photoelectricity and Electron Optics
  • Electronic Devices
DEF

A solid-state photosensitive electron device in which use is made of the variation of the current-voltage characteristic as a function of incident radiation.

OBS

Mention of the qualifier "solid-state" in this definition implies that phototubes are excluded from it. The Modern Dictionary of Electronic(Rudolf F. Graf, 5th ed. 1977) states that "the term should not be used for a phototube, which is a vacuum tube and not a cell". However, these terms are, in fact, often used in a more general sense to designate all types of light-sensitive electronic devices. This record deals with the terms in their more restricted sense.

Key term(s)
  • light sensitive cell

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dispositifs de sécurité
  • Quincaillerie du bâtiment
  • Photo-électricité et optique électronique
  • Dispositifs électroniques
DEF

Cellule photo-électrique servant à la commande de dispositifs automatiques (ouverture d'une porte, par exemple).

OBS

photoélectrique : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Dispositivos de seguridad
  • Artículos de ferretería para la construcción
  • Fotoelectricidad y óptica electrónica
  • Dispositivos electrónicos
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Record 4 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrostatics
  • Dielectric Materials (Electronics)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

The basic component of the generator is a cell made up of a low-voltage stainless steel electrode cooled by water circulating internally and a silver-coated glass dielectric tube cooled externally by oil or some other fluid(e. g., freon)....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrostatique
  • Matériaux diélectriques (Électronique)
  • Traitement des eaux
  • Traitement des eaux usées
CONT

[...] amélioration des connaissances en matière de production d'ozone : - Conception même des formes, technologie de construction, alimentation électrique et surtout nature et qualité des tubes diélectriques.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bioengineering
CONT

Add 1 ml of the washed cell suspension to a 15 ml conical centrifuge tube and pellet the cells by centrifuging for 5 min at 200 g.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Technique biologique
CONT

À 1 portion de suspension de cellules lavées, ajouter 1 portion de lait écrémé en poudre reconstitué (double concentration) que l'on prépare en dissolvant 200 g de lait écrémé en poudre dans 1 litre d'eau distillée, le tout passant à l'autoclave à 121º pendant 15 minutes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bioingeniería
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Record 6 2011-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
CONT

Leonard Adleman, a mathematician at the University of Southern California, combined microscopic bits of DNA to calculate a well-known computer problem. A DNA computer processes each step comparatively slowly, but it can work on billions of sites at once in a cell or a test tube. The standard computer problem that Adleman tackled in his lab is one that seeks a route connecting seven cities, some of which have no direct connections between them, in such a way that a hypothetical traveller arrives at each city only once without backtracking. He solved this puzzle by treating the chemical units of DNA as computing symbols, then assigning a series of symbols to each "city. "He then used DNAs natural affinity to join its strands together to create possible city-to-city sequences. In a test tube, very short bits of DNA zipped on to other bits, until all possible routes to the seven cities were assembled very rapidly. This sorting of codes serves as a type of computation even though the DNA was doing nothing unusual.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
CONT

Vers l'ordinateur à ADN [...] Face à un bogue, les puces déclencheront forcément la bonne réaction de la même façon que notre système immunitaire s'adapte à une nouvelle maladie. Du coup, certains informaticiens se prennent carrément à rêver au «DNA computing», un ordinateur constitué en partie de «briques» d'ADN.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
DEF

Nanocomputadora (nano-ordenador) que usa ADN (ácido desoxirribonucleico) para almacenar información y realizar cálculos complejos.

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Record 7 2011-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
  • Blood
  • Bioengineering
OBS

Term(s) taken from a Canadian laboratory-equipment company’s catalogue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
  • Sang
  • Technique biologique
OBS

Terme(s) tiré(s) du catalogue d'une compagnie canadienne d'équipement de laboratoire.

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
CONT

Their semiautomated LMM(laser microbeam microdissection) technique uses a pulsed nitrogen laser to circumscribe single cells or cell clusters of interest located in formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue sections. Increasing the intensity of the focused beam results in the physical ejection or "catapulting" of the circumscribed cells away from the surrounding tissue onto a cap of a microfuge tube-a phenomenon known as laser pressure catapulting(LPC). Contamination by surrounding cell(s) can be processed using reverse transcriptase(RT)-PCR to examine patterns of gene expression.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie

Spanish

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Record 9 2010-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Grain Growing
OBS

Tube cells constitute the endocarp in a grain kernel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Culture des céréales
OBS

Les cellules tubulaires constituent l'endocarpe du grain de blé.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Cultivo de cereales
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Record 10 2010-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gas and Oil Heating
CONT

Modern combustion equipment has a primary control, known as a cadmium sulphide cell, mounted in the burner blast tube. The light from the flame activates it. These devices are energized whenever the burner is operating. This is known as "constant ignition". Many older types of stack relays work intermittently, providing ignition only on start-up.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chauffage au gaz et au mazout
OBS

Équivalent proposé par Jean-Paul Champagne de la division de terminologie militaire.

Spanish

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Record 11 2006-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photoelectricity and Electron Optics
  • Analytical Chemistry
CONT

There are several different types of photoelectric cells. In some [i.e., phototubes] there is a light-sensitive surface [a photocathode] which emits electrons and a second electrode, usually maintained at a fairly high positive potential, which collects the electrons ... A second type is the photovoltaic or barrier layer photocell in which incident light produces an emf between two terminals ... Solar cells, widely used to provide energy for satellites and space vehicles, are photovoltaic cells converting radiant energy into electrical energy. A familiar form uses a very perfect silicon crystal which is treated with trace impurities to introduce extra positive charges on one side of a thin wafer and extra negative charges on the other side ... Radiant energy disturbs the electrical balance of the charges and thereby induces an emf which continues as long as light strikes the crystal ... A third type of photoelectric cell [photoconductive, or photoresistive cell] utilizes the photoconductivity effect.

OBS

The term photoelectric cell, or photocell, should not be used for a phototube, which is a vacuum tube and not a cell.

OBS

electric eye: The layman’s term for a photoelectric cell. Also used to designate an unrelated type of electronic device (a magic eye) used for tuning radio receivers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photo-électricité et optique électronique
  • Chimie analytique
OBS

Dans le Dictionnaire de Physique (J.P. Mathieu, 1983), on décrit trois catégories de cellules photoélectriques, soit : 1) les cellules photoémissives (syn. : phototubes - qui ne font pas appel aux matériaux semiconducteurs); 2) les cellules photovoltaïques; 3) les cellules photoconductrices (ou photorésistantes), ces deux dernières catégories nécessitant l'emploi de semiconducteurs. Dans l'Encyclopédie internationale des sciences et des techniques on utilise le terme dans ce même sens général. Par contre, dans le Dictionnaire mémento d'électronique, Dunot, éd. Paris 1969, page 59, on exclut les phototubes. On retrouve donc, en français, la même diversité de sens des termes qu'en anglais. Cette fiche traite de ces termes dans leur sens le plus large.

OBS

photoélectrique : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

PHR

Selenium photocell.

Key term(s)
  • photo-cellule
  • récepteur photo-électrique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fotoelectricidad y óptica electrónica
  • Química analítica
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Record 12 2005-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
  • Translation (General)
CONT

The cell develops into a plantlet under sterile conditions in a test tube. The test tube is placed in a controlled-access growth chamber within the laboratory facility.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

La cellule se développe en plantule dans des conditions stériles dans une éprouvette. l'éprouvette est placée dans une chambre de croissance [...] à accès contrôlé dans le laboratoire.

Spanish

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Record 13 2003-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Beekeeping
  • Sugar Industry
DEF

A sweet viscid fluid, of various shades from nearly white to deep golden, being the nectar of flowers collected and worked up for food by certain insects, esp. the honey-bee.

PHR

Honey of borax.

PHR

Honey-heavy, honey-laden.

PHR

Honey bike, brake, -cake, colour, -crock, -cup, drink, -harvest, -knife, -mead, -pore, -scale, -shop, -time, wine.

PHR

Honey-coloured, -hearted, -lipped, -loaded, -steeped, -mouthed, -stored, -wooled.

PHR

Honey agaric, ant,-apple,-baby,-badger,-bag,-balm, banana,-basket,-bearer,-beer,-berry,-blob,-bloom,-bottle,-bread,-bucket,-bun,-bunch,-cell,-cherry, chile,-creeper,-dresser,-extractor,-fall,-farmer,-flow,-fly, fungus,-garlic,-gate,-gatherer,-gilding,-gland,-gold,-holder,-hunter,-kite,-locust,-lotus,-maker,-man,-mark,-meal,-mesquit,-moth,-mouse, mushroom,-pear,-people,-plant,-pod, possum,-rore,-soap,-sop,-spot,-stalks,-stomach,-sucker,-tear,-tube,-ware,-water,-week,-wood,-words,-worker.

PHR

Honey-bearing, -dropping, -eating, -flowing, -gathering, -making, -secreting, -storing, -yielding.

PHR

Borax, clover, corn, heather, stone, wood honey.

PHR

Clarified honey.

PHR

Live, unripe, virgin, white, wild honey.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
DEF

Substance sirupeuse et sucrée, de couleur ambrée, que les abeilles élaborent dans leur jabot avec le nectar des fleurs ou d'autres matières végétales, et qu'elles dégorgent dans des alvéoles de cire pour la nourriture de leur communauté.

CONT

Les abeilles vont chercher le nectar des fleurs pour le convertir en miel.

PHR

Fourmi, mouche à miel.

PHR

Bonbon, préparation pharmaceutique au miel.

PHR

Couleur, gâteau, goût, jatte, parfum, pot de miel.

PHR

Douceur, production du miel.

PHR

Miel rosat, violat.

PHR

Miel de Narbonne, du Gâtinais; miel des fleurs.

PHR

Sentir le miel; séparer le miel de la cire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Cría de abejas
  • Industria azucarera
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Record 14 2001-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

It should be a TV programmer's dream : more than a million viewers with nothing better to do than sit in front of the tube all day. But this audience is really captive; they are inmates in the nation's 400 prisons and jails... Does TV turn inmates into cell potatoes?... But not everyone approves of turning convicts into couch potatoes.

OBS

Compare "desk potato" and "couch potato".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
OBS

Néologismes créés à partir de taule, taulard et télézard (le dernier étant lui-même construit de télévision et lézarder, c.à.d paresser devant la télé).

Spanish

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Record 15 1998-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
  • Silviculture
DEF

A long, slender, conducting cell of the phloem, that does not form a constituent element of a sieve tube but is provided with relatively unspecialized sieve areas, especially in the tapering ends of the cells that overlap those of other sieve cells.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
  • Sylviculture
DEF

Cellule allongée et amincie du phloème qui n'est pas considérée comme constituante d'un tube criblé mais est dotée de cribles relativement peu spécialisés, surtout aux terminaisons biseautées des cellules qui chevauchent les autres cellules criblées.

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
CONT

... right-angle fluorometer(Varian).... A Tungsten-halide lamp provides strong excitation-radiation over the continuum above 180 nm. A lens plus excitation filter collects energy from the lamp, isolates the spectral band width of interest, and focuses the beam onto a... cell. Another lens collects the fluorescent energy from this cell at 90° to the exciting beam, and focuses it through emission filters onto the photomultiplier tube, which measures the radiation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique

Spanish

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Record 17 1996-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
CONT

In their apparatus, the titration electrode is contained within the titration cell whereas the opposite electrode is placed in a separate tube filled with electrolyte solution, and this tube is connected to the cell by a diaphragm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique

Spanish

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Record 18 1987-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
OBS

microhematocrit : Use of a capillary tube to determine by centrifugation the packed cell volume of a small sample of blood.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
OBS

(...) placer les tubes sur le plateau de la centrifugeuse, l'extrémité scellée vers la périphérie, centrifuger 5 min. à 10 000 tr/min, lire [le microhématocrite sur le lecteur].

Spanish

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Record 19 1986-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Concrete Preparation and Mixing
CONT

Concrete stress cells measure stresses in mass concrete, concrete slabs, piles, tunnel lining, etc. All cells consist of two stainless steel plates welded together at their perimeter and spaced apart by a narrow cavity filled with either antifreeze solution or mercury. The cells have a post-stressing tube to ensure good contact between cell and concrete.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fabrication du béton
OBS

Matériel de précontrainte par post-tension. (...) Les câbles doivent être placés à l'intérieur du béton (...). Mais, pour être tendus, et donc s'allonger, ils doivent pouvoir coulisser par rapport au béton. Aussi place-t-on les câbles dans des conduits réservés par des gaines (on les place avant coulage du béton, ou on les enfile ensuite dans ces gaines).

Spanish

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Record 20 1985-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lasers and Masers
CONT

the hydrogen Raman cell to improve beam quality. The Raman cell is simple in principle-as simple as a tube with windows at each end. Light from one or more excimer laser is beamed into the cell where it interacts with the hydrogen to produce a beam of slightly longer wavelength.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Masers et lasers

Spanish

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Record 21 1984-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cheese and Dairy Products
CONT

The luximeter, used in determining the degree of pasteurization of milk, is also... used to determine the clarity or turbidity of cane juices going to evaporators, and also of filtrate from the filter presses. It consists of a light source, a light sensitive cell and an indicating instrument. The light is directed through a test tube of the solution to be measured.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Laiterie, beurrerie et fromagerie

Spanish

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Record 22 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrochemistry
OBS

The majority of the chemical elements can be determined by polarographic analysis,... The solution to be analyzed is placed in a glass cell containing two electrodes. One electrode consists of a glass capillary tube... from which mercury slowly flows in drops(dropping mercury electrode).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électrochimie

Spanish

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