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BOWING [7 records]

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Record 1 2016-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
CONT

The "bow" signals states "I want to play" ... This same bowing behavior is seen in dogs and wolves, though their play fights are generally less aggressive than those of young coyotes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
DEF

The bending of a fuel element or fuel assembly due to a nonuniform temperature distribution.

OBS

bowing: term and definition standardized by ISO in 1997.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique nucléaire
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
DEF

Pour un élément combustible ou un assemblage combustible, courbure provoquée par une distribution non uniforme de la température.

OBS

déformation en arc; arcure : termes et définition normalisés par l'ISO en 1997.

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metallurgy - General
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

Curvature in the plane of rolled sheet or strip, or in the plane of the web of structural shapes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Métallurgie générale
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Courbure de ce qui est arqué en dedans.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Metalurgia general
  • Vocabulario técnico y científico general
  • Aserradura de la madera
DEF

Desviación de la línea recta que se mide en el punto donde la distancia desde la línea recta es mayor.

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Record 4 2003-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plywood
DEF

A distortion in a peeler log that makes it concave or convex during peeling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contreplaqués
DEF

Déformation apparaissant sur une bille de placage au moment du déroulage et qui se manifeste par un aspect concave ou convexe.

PHR

Flambage du bois.

Spanish

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Record 5 1997-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Transport

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par eau

Spanish

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Record 6 1992-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
DEF

In children, bending of a long bone or bones occurring as a result of angulation and compressive forces, without any evidence of a fracture. It is particularly common in the radius or ulna and less commonly found in the fibula. In the forearm both bones may be bowed, or there may be an associated complete or incomplete fracture or dislocation of the other. The fibular bow fracture is usually associated with a complete fracture of the tibia. [From RSKEL, 1982, pp. 68, 69.]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
DEF

Chez l'enfant, incurvation diaphysaire d'un os long soumis à une compression axiale, sans trait de fracture décelable. Elle se rencontre surtout au niveau du cubitus ou du radius, parfois du péroné. l'avant-bras, le plus souvent, la fracture plastique d'un des deux os accompagne une fracture vraie de l'autre os. Plus rarement, elle intéresse simultanément les deux os de l'avant-bras. Au niveau du péroné, elle est presque toujours associée à une fracture du tibia. [D'après EMSQU, 31019, A10, 1986, p. 3 et TENFA, 1987, p. 24.]

OBS

source d : EMSQU, 31019, A10, 1986, p. 3.

Spanish

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Record 7 1977-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
  • Anthropology
DEF

the act or art of managing the bow in playing a stringed musical instrument.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
  • Anthropologie
CONT

L'archet doit être à la fois souple et résistant, pour obéir à la moindre pression des doigts et exécuter correctement les différents "coups d'archet": staccato, sautillé, legato, etc.

OBS

Voir rubrique "archet" dans GRLAA.

Spanish

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