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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2018-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Reptiles and Amphibians
DEF

Paired larval head appendages functioning as props until forelegs are developed in certain salamanders.

OBS

Usually plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Reptiles et amphibiens
CONT

La phase larvaire aquatique est ainsi complètement supprimée chez Salamandra atra, qui est vivipare. Un œuf éclot dans chaque oviducte sous forme d'une larve munie de balanciers, d'organes de la ligne latérale et de branchies.

OBS

Utilisé surtout au pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging Machinery and Equipment
  • Packaging in Metal
CONT

After lining with compound, the [can] ends are fed through another bank of balancing machines; as with the earlier balancers, this allows the manufacturing process to run continuously.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines et équipement d'emballage
  • Emballages en métal

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engines (Motor Vehicles)
DEF

A shaft designed so that, as it rotates, it vibrates in a way that reduces or cancels some of the vibration produced by an engine.

OBS

Not essential to an engine's operation, balance shafts are nonetheless becoming increasingly common as a means of engine refinement. Balance-shafted four-cylinder engines use two shafts turning in opposite directions on either side of the engine's crankshaft. A single balance shaft is used when fitted to three-cylinder and V-6 engines.

Key term(s)
  • balancer shaft
  • counterbalance shaft
  • counter balancing shaft

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteur (Véhicules automobiles)
CONT

Le volant de vilebrequin, fixé par boutons sur la collerette de celui-ci quelquefois monté sur cône (...) a pour but de régulariser la rotation du moteur en s'opposant par son inertie aux variations de régime.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
OBS

Something which helps to preserve the balance; spec. the knobbed filaments (halteres or poisers), which in two-winged flies replace the posterior wings, a name given by Réamur from their resemblance to the balancier used in coining.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
DEF

Nom donné aux petits appendices en forme de bâtonnets qui remplacent, chez les insectes diptères, les ailes postérieures.

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
OBS

Nichset

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
OBS

hydraulique, pneumatique 127cp/2.75

Spanish

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