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TWO HAND SET [4 records]

Record 1 2024-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Furniture (Various)
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Percussion Instruments
  • String Instruments
CONT

Traditionally, piano benches are longer and wider. They’re designed to accommodate duets, offering ample space for two players to sit side by side comfortably. Piano benches tend to be sturdier and heavier, providing stability during intense practice sessions or performances.... On the other hand, piano stools are typically smaller and more compact. They may feature a cushioned or unpadded seat and are often lighter in weight. Piano stools come in various designs, with some featuring a single central leg and others boasting a set of legs closer together.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilier divers
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
  • Instruments de musique à cordes

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
CONT

The Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (PDMS) is a standardized, norm-referenced test used to assess the fine and gross motor development of children, birth to 83 months of age.

CONT

The Peabody Developmental Motor Scales and Activity Cards(PDMS) is an assessment evaluation test designed to assess early childhood motor development. Standardized on 617 children, this test provides both in-depth assessment of special needs and instructional plans for training/remediating gross and fine motor skills. Divided into a Gross Motor Scale and a Fine Motor Scale, the test evaluates grasping, hand use, eye-hand coordination, and finger dexterity. The instructional component is organized developmentally by skill area. The complete kit includes a manual, 15 response/scoring booklets, 282 activity cardsa set of two blacline masters and manipulatives, and a storage box.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
  • échelle de développement moteur de Peabody
    correct, feminine noun
CONT

Les examens de la fonction motrice comprennent : l'évaluation du mouvement de l'enfant; les échelles de développement moteur de Brunuinks-Oseretsky; l'échelle de développement moteur de Peabody.

CONT

Comparaison du développement psychomoteur d'enfants âgés entre 3 et 4 ans fréquentant ou non une garderie ayant un programme d'éducation psychomotrice. [...] deux groupes [d'enfants] ont été évalués à l'aide de l'Échelle de développement moteur Peabody (Folio & Fewell, 1983) lors du pré- et du post-test.

OBS

Test d'évaluation psychomotrice. On parle aussi souvent du test baptisé Échelle de vocabulaire en images Peabody - Révisé (EVIP-R), en anglais «Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT-R)», conçu pour mesurer le vocabulaire compris par les enfants de 4 et 5 ans.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Volleyball
DEF

A pass performed with both hands, normally by the setter, for the purpose of placing the ball in position for another player to spike.

OBS

The set is a pass intended for one specific purpose, to place the ball above and near the net so that a front row player can jump and attack it. Although the set can be performed on the first or second contact by any player, it is generally made on the second play by one of two players specifically designated by the team to perform this task. This specialist is called a setter.

Key term(s)
  • two-hand set-up
  • two hand set
  • 2-hand set
  • two-handed set-up
  • two-handed set pass
  • two-handed setup
  • two-handed set

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volleyball
DEF

Transfert du ballon en jeu, au moyen des deux mains, d'un coéquipier (généralement le passeur) à un autre coéquipier qui tentera de smasher le ballon dans le camp adverse.

OBS

Pluriel : des smashs, des smashes.

OBS

smashs (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

OBS

La passe au volleyball signifie réception et transmission de la balle.

Key term(s)
  • passe d'attaque à 2 mains
  • passe de smash à 2 mains

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surveying Instruments
DEF

A small hand instrument used by surveyors for laying off a right angle by means of two mirrors set at an angle of 45 degrees.

CONT

The optical square ... consists essentially of two mirrors placed at an angle of 45° to each other and contained in a flat cylindrical metal box ... One of the mirrors, "I", is called the index glass and is wholly silvered, while the other mirror, "H’, is called the horizon glass and has its lower half silvered and its upper half plain.

Key term(s)
  • right angle prism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'arpentage
CONT

L'équerre à prismes, aussi appelée équerre optique, est formée d'un prisme pentagonal dont les faces réfléchissantes forment entre elles un angle de 45°. L'équerre optique double à deux prismes pentagonaux superposés, ce qui permet de placer un point dans un alignement donné.

CONT

L'équerre à miroirs, aussi appelée équerre à réflexion, est formée de deux miroirs, fixés à 45° l'un de l'autre, donnant après réflexion deux directions perpendiculaires.

CONT

Équerre à deux miroirs - Elle se compose de deux miroirs faisant entre eux un angle de 50 grades [...]

Spanish

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