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UPPER IMPRESSION [3 records]

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Record 1 2017-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Equipment and Supplies
  • Postal Equipment and Supplies
DEF

The order, under UPU regulations, in which impressions shall read from right to left as follows : value paid impression, place and date impression and optional impressions. On letter mail, the value paid impression and place and date impression shall be contained within an area 40 mm high by 74 mm long in the upper right corner of the item to be franked.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
  • Matériel et fournitures (Postes)
DEF

Ordre selon lequel, d'après les règlements de l'UPU doivent figurer, de droite à gauche, les différentes empreintes à savoir : vignettes de valeur, timbre à date puis mentions facultatives. Sur les lettres la vignette de valeur et le timbre à date doivent s'inscrire à l'intérieur d'une surface de 40 mm de hauteur et de 74 mm de longueur réservée à cet effet sur le coin supérieur droit du pli à affranchir.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lymphatic System
DEF

An impression of the maxillary jaw and related tissues and dental structures.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système lymphatique
DEF

Dépression de la face antéro-supérieure de la pyramide pétreuse, logeant la partie externe du ganglion de Gasser.

CONT

On voit près du sommet du rocher (apex partis petrosae) la fossette du ganglion de Gasser ou fossette trigéminale du nerf V (impressio trigemini).

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Typesetting and Imagesetting
  • Typography
OBS

8 - MODERN REVIVALS OF EARLY TYPE FACES AND 20TH-CENTURY DESIGNS (...) (H) Scotch Roman [type] (...)

OBS

type : a rectangular piece of metal or, sometimes, wood with a raised letter, figure, etc. in reverse on its upper end, which when inked and pressed against a piece of paper or other material,(...) leaves an impression of its face.

Key term(s)
  • Scotch Roman type

French

Domaine(s)
  • Composition (Imprimerie)
  • Typographie (Caractères)
OBS

(...) [En typographie,] les anciens noms arbitraires de caractères furent remplacés par des désignations numérales, tirées d'une mesure spéciale, le "point typographique"; chaque caractère fut désigné par le nombre de points qu'il mesure: 3 Diamant, 4 Perle, 5 Parisienne, (...) 9 Petit romain (...)

OBS

Voir rubrique "typographie" dans GRLAA.

Spanish

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