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Record 1 2002-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
PHR

Upward motion.

PHR

Upward migration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
DEF

Qui va en montant.

PHR

Mouvement vers le haut.

PHR

Migration ascendante.

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
OBS

A Windows function.

OBS

Term taken from documentation consulted to prepare the terminology of PRISM, the new computer system to be used by Parliament of Canada employees and other federal government employees, (e.g. Parliamentary Translation).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
OBS

Fonction Windows.

OBS

Terme relevé à partir de la documentation consultée dans le but d'établir la terminologie reliée à PRISME, le nouveau système informatique qui sera utilisé par les employés du Parlement du Canada et autres employés du gouvernement fédéral (la Traduction parlementaire, par exemple).

Spanish

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Record 3 1979-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fungi and Myxomycetes
DEF

applied to the partial veil when in the young stage its stipe-attachment is below the level of its marginal one; in this case a ring formed from it is called inferior.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Champignons et myxomycètes
DEF

S'emploie [...] pour caractériser la direction de l'anneau.

OBS

[...] devant les risques extrêmes de confusion, il [...] paraît sage et même indispensable d'abandonner les deux termes ascendant et descendant s'appliquant à l'anneau. A défaut (...) d'épithètes satisfaisantes, on en sera quitte pour expliciter son origine et sa direction au moyen d'une courte phrase, telle que anneau d'origine supérieure, d'origine inférieure.

Spanish

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Record 4 1979-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
DEF

applied to a lamella where its edge form a line ascending in the direction from the apex of the stipe, as in conical shaped-pilei.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
DEF

Qui s'élève.

OBS

(...) se dit des lames dont l'arête en se rapprochant du pied, prend une direction de plus en plus redressée. Ascendant, ainsi employé, caractérise, au fond la forme du chapeau autant que celle des lames.

Spanish

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Record 5 1978-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
DEF

Becoming vertical, by upward curving.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
DEF

Étalé à la base, puis redressé [...]

Spanish

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