TERMIUM Plus®

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HEADSTOCK [4 records]

Record 1 2024-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
DEF

Extrémité du manche des instruments à cordes [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineshaft and Mine Passage Accessories
  • Mining Operations
DEF

The frame at the top of a shaft, on which is mounted the hoisting pulley.

PHR

Mine headframe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Accessoires des puits et galeries (Mines)
  • Exploitation minière
DEF

Grande charpente généralement métallique qui domine le puits d'une exploitation souterraine et dont le rôle est de supporter un dispositif d'extraction (molettes) assurant le renvoi vers la machine d'extraction des câbles auxquels sont suspendus les cages ou les skips.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boring (Machine-Tooling)
CONT

[In] a floor type horizontal boring machine with travelling headstock ... The weight of the headstock and eventually of attachments to it (e.g. a milling head) changes its movement with respect to the base of the column so that the axis of the spindle is variably inclined to the horizontal.

OBS

Normally only "headstock" is used, although this is more generic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alésage (Usinage)
CONT

Sur une machine à montant fixe prise comme exemple [...] le mécanisme de coupe, comprenant moteur et boîte des vitesses, est incorporé au chariot porte-broche ainsi que les différentes commandes.

OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lathe Work (Machine-Tooling)
DEF

Part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and the mechanism for driving it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tournage sur métaux
DEF

Organe de tour qui porte la broche et les engrenages permettant d'obtenir les différentes vitesses.

Spanish

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