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WINDMILLS [21 records]

Record 1 2020-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Nyctaginaceae.

Key term(s)
  • trailing wind-mills
  • trailing four-o’clock

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Nyctaginaceae.

OBS

Allionia incarnata : Il n'existe pas de nom commun pour désigner cette espèce.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Rotary Machines - Types
  • Wind Energy
  • Pumps
DEF

A machine that converts the kinetic energy of the wind to mechanical power for pumping underground water.

OBS

American windmills from the Great West represent the most famous types of water-pumping wind turbines.

Key term(s)
  • wind mill pump

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines tournantes électriques - types
  • Énergie éolienne
  • Pompes
DEF

Machine qui transforme l'énergie cinétique du vent en énergie mécanique destinée à pomper l'eau souterraine.

OBS

Les modèles les plus connus d'éoliennes de pompage sont les moulins américains des grandes plaines de l'Ouest américain.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Máquinas rotativas eléctricas - tipos
  • Energía eólica
  • Bombas
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Record 3 2013-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Rotary Machines - Types
  • Wind Energy
DEF

[A vane used] for [the] overspeed control on American farm windmills [and oriented] in the same plane as the rotor disk.

OBS

This vane extended beyond the sweep of the rotor and was intended to furl the rotor during high winds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines tournantes électriques - types
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Dispositif que l'on utilisait pour tempérer la survitesse des moulins américains et qui était orienté dans le plan du disque du rotor.

CONT

Les moulins américains [...] Ces éoliennes sont pourvues d'un gouvernail de direction pour orienter le disque normalement à la direction du vent [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Máquinas rotativas eléctricas - tipos
  • Energía eólica
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Record 4 2012-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Rotary Machines - Types
  • Wind Energy
DEF

A horizontal axis wind turbine provided with several blades.

OBS

The most famous example of multibladed windmills is the American farm windmill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines tournantes électriques - types
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Éolienne à axe horizontal dotée de nombreuses pales.

OBS

Le modèle le plus connu d'éolienne multipale est le «moulin américain».

Key term(s)
  • éolienne multipales

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Máquinas rotativas eléctricas - tipos
  • Energía eólica
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Record 5 2012-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Rotary Machines - Types
CONT

Windmills may rotate by being "pushed" by the wind(drag) or by using aerodynamic forces such as "lift"... [and] may rotate around a vertical or a horizontal axis.... The Darreus windmill is a vertical axis aerodynamic type. It was invented in France in the 1930s and is currently being developed for manufacture in Canada. It has one or more curved flexible blades of airfoil design, shaped to a curve that is consistent with the centrifugal and aerodynamic forces it experiences in rotation. It is not self-starting, but a small Savonius rotor can be attached to its central axis to provide this feature.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines tournantes électriques - types

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Program Titles (Armed Forces)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes (Forces armées)
OBS

Source : Consultation avec une personne autorisée à la Direction de l'équité en matière d'emploi au ministère de la Défense nationale.

OBS

En français on garde le nom anglais en le mettant entre guillemets.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Constructed Works
  • Energy (Physics)
DEF

A mill operated by the wind’s rotation of large, oblique sails or vanes radiating from a shaft: used as a source of power for grinding grain, pumping water, etc.

CONT

The idea of using the wind as a source of power or energy to do man's bidding is not new. The earliest known wind machines, used by the Persians to grind grain, predate Christian civilization. Use of windmills to recorded is the 12th century en France and England and was extensive throughout Europe by the 13th century.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de constructions
  • Énergie (Physique)
DEF

Moulin fonctionnant à l'aide d'ailes captant l'énergie éolienne.

CONT

Le moulin à vent oriental servait uniquement à la mouture des grains. En Europe, et notamment en Hollande à partir du XIVe siècle, le moulin à vent est employé pour l'assèchement des polders.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de construcciones
  • Energía (Física)
DEF

[...] instalación en que el motor es una rueda con paletas, movida por el [...] viento, en la cual se muelen granos entre dos piedras, una de las cuales gira sobre la otra [...]

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Record 8 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Rotary Machines
OBS

There are four well-differentiated types of windmills... Although its four-sailed wheel is efficient, the Dutch type, being difficult to regulate and operate, and having a higher first cost, has been used mainly in its place of origin, the Low Countries of Europe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines tournantes électriques
DEF

Aéromoteur de moins de cinq pales.

CONT

Selon que cette hélice (à axe horizontal) a quelques pales (2, 3 ou 4) ou une multitude de petites ailettes genre turbine, on parle de moulin hollandais ou de moulin américain.

Spanish

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Record 9 2008-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Turbines
  • Food Industries
  • Aircraft Systems
DEF

A rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow.

OBS

The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the flow, so that they rotate and impart energy to the rotor. Early turbine examples are windmills and water wheels. Gas, steam, and water turbines have a casing around the blades that contains and controls the working fluid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Turbines
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Circuits des aéronefs
CONT

Une turbine est un dispositif rotatif destiné à utiliser la force d'un fluide (eau, vapeur, air, gaz de combustion), dont le couple est transmis au moyen d'un arbre. L'énergie du fluide, caractérisée par sa vitesse et son enthalpie, est partiellement convertie en énergie mécanique pour entraîner un alternateur, une pompe ou tout autre récepteur mécanique rotatif.

OBS

turbine : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

Spanish

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Record 10 2006-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Constructed Works
  • Wind Energy
DEF

The spar used to support the sail of a traditional European windmill.

OBS

Most Dutch windmills used stocks from a single continuous piece of timber.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de constructions
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Longue pièce de bois effilée traversant la tête de l'arbre [moteur d'un moulin à vent] et portant les ailes.

OBS

arbre moteur : Gros axe en chêne, sur lequel sont fixes les ailes et le rouet.

Spanish

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Record 11 2006-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Constructed Works
  • Wind Energy
DEF

A ... windmill that has a small number (usually 2 or 3) of blades that are generally made of cloth and are shaped like an airfoil (the shape of an airplane wing).

OBS

Sailwing windmills are usually simple designs, and are most commonly used [especially in North America] for water pumping.

Key term(s)
  • sail wing windmill

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de constructions
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Moulin à vent doté d'un petit nombre (normalement 2 ou 3) d'ailes recouvertes de toile.

OBS

ailes à toile : Ailes composées d'un scion boulonné sur la vergue, traversé par les lattes, qui peut être bordée de cotterets, sur lesquelles sont étalées les voiles.

Spanish

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Record 12 2006-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mechanical Transmission Systems
  • Wind Energy
DEF

A transmission system for American farm windmills using gears to minimize the torque necessary for lifting the pump rod.

CONT

The use of curved blades also permitted introduction of back-gearing to windmills. Back-geared windmills typically had wheels which revolved two or three times for each stroke of a pump, and this allowed the steel windmills to begin turning in much lighter winds than were necessary for the less efficient wooden-wheel mills.

Key term(s)
  • back gearing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmissions mécaniques
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Transmission dont sont dotés les moulins américains qui fait appel à des engrenages pour réduire le couple nécessaire pour soulever la tige de la pompe.

Spanish

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Record 13 2005-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Rotary Machines - Types
  • Wind Energy
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

A wood-cutting saw that is a mechanically powered with the help of a windmill installation.

OBS

Wood sawing with a windmill is a technology that goes back to the sixteenth century, when it was reported that windmills were used for cutting wood.

Key term(s)
  • wood-sawing windmill
  • Wood sawing wind mill

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines tournantes électriques - types
  • Énergie éolienne
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Éolienne qui transforme l'énergie cinétique du vent en puissance mécanique afin d'actionner une scie à bois.

OBS

L'éolienne de sciage est une technologie adaptée des moulins à vent du passé alors que ceux-ci étaient utilisés dès le seizième siècle pour des opérations de coupe du bois.

Spanish

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Record 14 2003-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Solar Energy
  • Machinery
CONT

Like woodfuel and coal, new and renewable sources of energy... are site-specific. Applications often take the form of biogas, windmills, mini-hydroplants, passive solar designs of buildings, photovoltaics, solar thermal, and solar stoves and water heaters.

OBS

photovoltaics: usually used in the plural in this context.

Key term(s)
  • photovoltaic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Énergie solaire
  • Machines
CONT

Les solaristes sont passés depuis mardi dernier de la théorie à la pratique en découvrant, village après village, les avantages des photovoltaïques .

OBS

photovoltaïques : pluriel d'usage dans ce contexte.

Key term(s)
  • photovoltaique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Energía solar
  • Maquinaria
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Record 15 1996-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

Fun Flower(trademark) Windmills. Rainbow-coloured windmills.

OBS

Source: Brochure prepared by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1994-1995.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

Vire-vent à fleurs. Vire-vent aux couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel.

OBS

Source : dépliant préparé par le Musée canadien des civilisations, 1994-1995.

Spanish

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Record 16 1991-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decision-Making Process

French

Domaine(s)
  • Processus décisionnel
OBS

Exercice de remue-méninges pour les gestionnaires et employés du Ministère.

OBS

Deux expressions utilisées par Revenu Canada, Impôt.

Spanish

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Record 17 1988-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy Transformation
DEF

The use of solar collectors and associated devices in order to absorb solar radiation which is to be converted into the required form of energy (i.e., thermal, chemical, electrical, and so on).

CONT

Methods of solar-energy collection range from active, mechanical, solar thermal collectors to photoelectrical devices to windmills to fully passive collection systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation de l'énergie
DEF

Action d'intercepter le rayonnement solaire en vue de sa conversion thermique, chimique, électrique ou biologique.

Spanish

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Record 18 1985-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Rotary Machines - Types
CONT

Windmills have a wide range of possible applications. Water-pumping windmills have been used and will likely continue to be used in agriculture for irrigation and in the production of mechanical power, such as that required for feed grinding, shredding of vegetable materials and crop residues or wastes and sawing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines tournantes électriques - types

Spanish

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Record 19 1980-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy (Physics)
  • Electric Power Stations
CONT

Windmills therefore fall into different classes according to the value of tip speed ratio(TSR) at which they operate. Slow running windmills, like the common farm air turbine, may operate at TSR=1 or 2, and with the fastest running windmills, perhaps up to TSR=6 or 7.(...) In the case of horizontal shaft windmills, it [the fast running windmill] resembles an ordinary propeller with rather wide blades, whereas a slow running windmill must be fitted with a large number of blades.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Énergie (Physique)
  • Centrales électriques
CONT

A partir de 1870, l'éolienne lente à pales multiples fait son apparition en Amérique puis en Europe. Les pales dont le nombre varie de 12 à 24 couvrent toute la surface de la roue ou la presque totalité.

Spanish

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Record 20 1980-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy (Physics)
  • Electric Power Stations
CONT

Windmills therefore fall into different classes according to the value of tip speed ratio(TSR) at which they operate. Slow running windmills,(...) may operate at TSR=1 or 2, and with the fastest running windmills, perhaps up to TSR=6 or 7. A fast running windmill requires a smaller solidity to deliver the same power as a slow running windmill, and is therefore generally simpler in construction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Énergie (Physique)
  • Centrales électriques
CONT

Le nombre des pales, est ici beaucoup plus restreint puisqu'il varie entre 2 et 4. L'intérêt des éoliennes rapides est qu'elles sont à puissance égale beaucoup plus légères que les éoliennes lentes.

Spanish

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Record 21 1980-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mechanical Construction
CONT

Orientation or "Yaw". Small windmills may be provided with a tail vane to turn them into wind or, if their blades are mounted to run downwind of the tower, the wind pressure on them may render them self-orientating.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Construction mécanique
CONT

Hélice auto-orientable située à l'aval du pylône, à pas variable.

Spanish

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