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PICO [2 records]

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Record 1 2023-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Implements and Gardening Tools
  • Hand Tools
  • Property Upkeeping
CONT

Pick mattock. Combine a pick with an adze and you have one of the best tools for grubbing in hard soils and rocky terrain. The pick on a mattock is squared rather than beveled, and while the adze is sometimes sharpened, the pick seldom is.

Key term(s)
  • pick-axe
  • pickax
  • pick-ax

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage agricole et horticole
  • Outillage à main
  • Travaux d'entretien de la propriété
CONT

Pioche. Cet instrument de terrassier et de cultivateur est généralement formé d'une partie pointue, le pic, et d'une partie large et coupante, la panne, toutes les deux reliées par un œil où s'adapte le manche. La pioche sert pour le défoncement.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aperos agrícolas e implementos de horticultura
  • Herramientas manuales
  • Trabajo de mantenimiento de la propiedad
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Record 2 2014-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
Universal entry(ies)
p
symbol
DEF

SI [International System of Units] prefix, one trillionth; 10 [to the minus twelfth power].

OBS

The symbol for "pico-" is a lower case "p"; the upper case "P" is the symbol for "peta-."

OBS

micromicro-; uu: deprecated.

OBS

The obsolete symbol "uu" was usually seen written with two lower case Greek letters "mu."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
p
symbol
DEF

Préfixe qui, placé devant une unité, la divise par un billion, soit par 10 [à la douzième puissance].

OBS

Le symbole de «pico-» est le «p» minuscule; le «P» majuscule est le symbole de «peta-».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Metrología y unidades de medida
Entrada(s) universal(es)
p
symbol
DEF

Prefijo [...] que antepuesto al nombre de una unidad la divide por un billón.

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