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FRET [5 records]

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Record 1 2023-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
DEF

One of several ridges set across the fingerboard of certain stringed instruments ...

OBS

Guitars and lutes are examples of stringed instruments that have frets.

OBS

fret: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • frets

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
OBS

frette : désignation habituellement employée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • frettes

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Erosion and Weathering (Geol.)
CONT

Rainwater frets the rocks.

OBS

Said of the gradual action of water, currents, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Érosion et corrosion (Géologie)
DEF

Détruire lentement, progressivement, par une action chimique.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Biophysics
  • Biotechnology
DEF

... a mechanism describing energy transfer between two light-sensitive molecules (chromophores) [in which a] donor chromophore, initially in its electronic excited state, may transfer energy to an acceptor chromophore through nonradiative dipole–dipole coupling.

OBS

"Förster resonance energy transfer" is named after the German scientist Theodor Förster [and] is preferred to "fluorescence resonance energy transfer;" however, the latter enjoys common usage in scientific literature.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Biophysique
  • Biotechnologie
CONT

[...] la technique de FRET [Förster resonance energy transfer] utilisée avec un microscope optique permet la détermination de l'approche de deux molécules distantes de quelques nanomètres seulement. Le transfert d’énergie entre molécules fluorescentes ou transfert d'énergie par résonance de type Förster est un phénomène quantique mettant en jeu deux molécules fluorescentes, à savoir une molécule fluorescente donneuse dans un état électronique excité et pouvant transférer son énergie d’excitation à un chromophore accepteur. Ce transfert énergétique par résonance est un processus mécanique quantique non radiatif qui ne requiert pas de collision entre les chromophores. Néanmoins, pour que ce transfert ait lieu, il faut que le spectre d’émission du donneur chevauche le spectre d’absorption de l’accepteur et que la distance les séparant soit inférieure à dix nanomètres.

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Elements
DEF

A geometrical ornament of horizontal and vertical straight lines repeated to form a band ....

DEF

In classical architecture, an ornament composed of combinations of straight lines, usually on a flat surface.

DEF

Ornamental interlaced relief work characterized especially by its interlocked angular lines.

DEF

Ornamentation comprising continuous combinations of straight lines, joined usually at right angles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'architecture
DEF

Ornement, formé de lignes sinueuses ou brisées, utilisé en architecture, dans les broderies, etc.

OBS

La source DEVBA (h) donne ces termes au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • méandres
  • frettes
  • grecques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos arquitectónicos
DEF

Ornamentación a base de grecas o de enlaces sinuosos.

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Record 5 1996-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ceramics (Industries)
  • Symbols, Motifs and Ornaments (Arts)
DEF

A decorative border pattern in continuous repetitive form made by short lines of equal length meeting at 90 degrees, or (less often) at a slightly larger or smaller angle.

OBS

Fret patterns are sometimes incised or in relief.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Céramique (Industries)
  • Symboles, motifs et ornements (Arts)
DEF

Ligne brisée employée comme ornement architectural (sous forme de moulure) ou autre. (Ses formes sont variées : bâtons rompus, frette crénelée, grecque).

Spanish

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