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WEST POINT [7 records]

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Record 1 2022-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
OBS

West Point First Nation: band name taken from the 2002 Indian Registration and Band Lists Directorate's data base of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC).

OBS

West Point First Nation: band located in Nunavut.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
OBS

West Point First Nation : nom de bande entériné par le ministère des Affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien (MAINC).

OBS

West Point First Nation : bande vivant au Nunavut.

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
OBS

A land mass on Margaree Island (Sea Wolf Island), in the county of Inverness, in Nova Scotia.

OBS

Coordinates: 46° 21' 9" N, 61° 15' 58" W (Nova Scotia).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Étendue de terre sur l'île Margaree (île Sea Wolf), dans le comté d'Inverness, en Nouvelle-Écosse.

OBS

Coordonnées : 46° 21' 9" N, 61° 15' 58" O (Nouvelle-Écosse).

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
OBS

A land mass on Sable Island in the county of Halifax, in Nova Scotia.

OBS

Coordinates: 43° 57' 20" N, 60° 7' 27" W (Nova Scotia).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Étendue de terre sur l'île de Sable dans le comté d'Halifax, en Nouvelle-Écosse.

OBS

Coordonnées : 43° 57' 20" N, 60° 7' 27" O (Nouvelle-Écosse).

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
DEF

A point located in the province of Prince Edward Island.

OBS

Coordinates: 46º 36' 56'' N, 64º 22' 55'' W (Prince Edward Island).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
DEF

Pointe située dans la province de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard.

OBS

Coordonnées : 46º 36' 56'' N, 64º 22' 55'' O (Île-du-Prince-Édouard).

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
  • Scientific Instruments
CONT

Ring-spun and open-end yarns were made from these cottons. Various fiber and yarn properties were measured before and after wax removal using ... the West Point Cohesion tester ... The correlations between wax content, fiber properties and yarn properties were analyzed ... Cotton wax reduced fiber-to-fiber cohesion by about twofold and fiber breakage more than tenfold.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
  • Instruments scientifiques

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geological and Other Scientific Names
OBS

A same designation could refer to a geographic or a geologic entity, sometimes with a slight variant in spelling or writing. It is important to distinguish one from the other and write each correctly according to the given context.

OBS

Located in Quebec.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géologiques ou scientifiques
OBS

La règle concernant la majuscule au générique d'un nom géologique demeure imprécise. Habituellement, les noms de divisions stratigraphiques portent la majuscule et les entités de moindre importance n'en portent pas.

OBS

Une même désignation peut se référer à une entité géographique et à une entité géologique, parfois avec une légère variante. Il importe de bien distinguer l'une de l'autre et d'utiliser la graphie correcte selon le contexte.

Spanish

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Record 7 1992-09-16

English

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

A modified axillary view to visualize the anterior inferior glenoid rim in patients with anterior shoulder instability. The patient is prone, and the shoulder is elevated three inches from the tabletop. The arm is abducted 90 ° and rotated so that the forearm hangs off the x-ray table and is pointed directly at the floor. With the cassette held against the superior aspect of the shoulder, the x-ray tube is positioned with the central ray projecting 25 ° from the horizontal and 25 ° medially. [From OTSUR, 1986, pp. 516, 517 and RFRAC, 1975, p. 678.]

French

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

Type de profil axillaire permettant de visualiser les lésions du rebord antéro-inférieur de la glène dans les instabilités antérieures de l'épaule. Le patient est en procubitus, l'épaule soulevée d'environ 6 cm. Le bras est placé en abduction à 90 °, puis en rotation, de manière à ce que l'avant-bras soit orienté vers le sol. La cassette est placée contre l'épaule, le tube formant un angle de 25 ° avec l'horizontale et un angle de 25 ° avec l'axe du corps.

Spanish

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