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UPPER BODY ADJUSTMENT [5 records]

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Record 1 2008-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
  • Special-Language Phraseology
OBS

Differential adjustment : An aircraft has its wing defined as a wing-like body with a tangential flow rotor in the leading edge. A shroud, under the lower part of the tangential flow rotor, terminates in at least one movable flap defining a lift-generating lip when the rotor is rotating such that the upper part of the rotor, projecting above the level of the upper surface of the wing-like body, is moving rearwardly. Differential adjustment of the flaps in the wings to either side of an aircraft centerline allows directional control and control of banking of the aircraft.

PHR

Differentially adjust the camber of the wing, the intensity of drop-lights, the lift-producing device, the pitch of the wing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

faire un réglage différentiel : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

PHR

Ajustement différentiel des ailerons, du pas des pales.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Instruments
  • Optical Instruments
CONT

The stand of the conventional compound microscope serves to hold the optical parts in alignment and to support the object. A sturdy base carries the rest of the instrument on an inclination joint. The body tube, with objectives on a revolving nosepiece at its lower end and either monocular or binocular eyepiece provision at its upper end, works on a rack-and-pinion coarse focusing adjustment which articulates it with the arm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments scientifiques
  • Instruments d'optique
DEF

Pièce tournante des microscopes optiques, permettant de placer successivement dans l'axe optique des objectifs de grossissements différents.

CONT

La partie mécanique d'un microscope (statif et organes accessoires) doit constituer [...] un ensemble très solide [...] Elle comporte, sous sa forme «ancienne», un tube métallique, généralement vertical. Les objectifs sont fixés à la partie inférieure, les oculaires se posent à la partie supérieure. La substitution d'un objectif à un autre s'obtient par l'emploi d'une tourelle à revolver.

OBS

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

Key term(s)
  • tourelle porte-objectif
  • tourelle révolver
  • tourelle à révolver
  • révolver

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hospital Furniture
CONT

Invacare 5310 Semi-Electric Bed. Electric upper body and knee adjustment combined with single-crank height adjustment located at the foot end of the bed.

Key term(s)
  • head hi lo function

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilier d'hôpital
CONT

Relève buste intégrant une têtière [...]

Key term(s)
  • relève buste

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hospital Furniture
CONT

Invacare 5310 semi-electric bed. Electric upper body and knee adjustment combined with single-crank height adjustment located at the foot end of the bed.

Key term(s)
  • knee hi lo function

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilier d'hôpital
CONT

Il existe des lits de base avec relève-buste ou relève-buste et relève-jambe et des lits avec fonctions supplémentaires : hauteur variable, commande électrique, retournement ventral, dorsal et latéral, plicature des genoux.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
DEF

[A bed] with manual height adjustment, and with electric head and leg elevation adjustments.

CONT

Semi-electrics beds combine motorized control of positioning of the upper body and knees with the economy of manual bed height adjustment. Pendant control raises and lowers the upper body and/or knees. Manual crank adjusts bed frame height for caregiver assistance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
Key term(s)
  • lit semi électrique

Spanish

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