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HUNDIDO [4 records]

Filter results by subject field Alphabetical list of terms

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2020-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maneuvering of Ships
CONT

The wreck was surveyed to assist in the investigation. It was decided that her hull was too badly damaged to justify repair so she was taken to a quiet and shallow end of the basin north of the magazine and scuttled on August 24.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manœuvre des navires
OBS

saborder : Couler volontairement un navire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Maniobras de los buques
OBS

echar a pique: hacer que un buque se hunda en el mar.

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Record 2 2005-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Animal Anatomy
DEF

Conformation fault in which the neck appears to be "upside down", concave along its upper edge with a consequent bulging of muscles along the lower edge.

CONT

The ewe neck is the one whose underneck shows a considerable bulge, while its topline shows a dip in front of the withers.

CONT

As a horse that had only "run left for a living," he was very stiff to his right, and his strong "Ewe" neck made him look like a camel.

CONT

The mule had a short camel neck and rafter hips.

OBS

The term ewe-necked refers to a neck that appears to be put on upside down and a horse with a swan-neck has a very long neck, usually with excessive bend similar to a swan, from which the term is taken.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Anatomie animale
CONT

Encolure de cerf : bord supérieur concave et bord inférieur convexe.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cría de ganado caballar
  • Anatomía animal
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Record 3 2005-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Tectonics
DEF

The lower wall or rock of an inclined or horizontal fault ...

OBS

In a dipping fault, the hanging wall refers to the surface of rock along the fault plane which has rock above it. Similarly the footwall is the surface or rock along the fault plane which has rock below it.

Key term(s)
  • foot wall
  • foot-wall

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Tectonique
DEF

Compartiment situé au-dessous du plan de faille.

CONT

Les compartiments définis par une faille se terminent contre celle-ci par des lèvres; il y a une lèvre supérieure dans le compartiment surélevé et une lèvre inférieure dans le compartiment affaissé.

CONT

Le mouvement se fait suivant une surface de faille [...] qui n'est pas toujours un plan de faille [...] La surface est quelquefois verticale [...] et d'ordinaire inclinée [...] présentant une certaine pente [...] Dans ce dernier cas, la lèvre supérieure, reposant sur le plan de faille, est le toit [...], la lèvre inférieure est le mur [...]

OBS

Lèvre d'une faille, chacune de ses deux parois (lèvre abaissée, lèvre soulevée).

OBS

Si le plan (ou la zone) de faille est incliné, la lèvre supérieure s'appelle toit, la lèvre inférieure, mur ou lit.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
  • Tectónica
CONT

La altura que media entre el labio levantado y el labio hundido constituye el salto de la falla.

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Record 4 2004-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
  • Economic Planning
DEF

A past cost which cannot now be revised and hence cannot (or should not) enter into current decisions for increasing or decreasing present profit levels.

CONT

A sunk cost is not an opportunity cost and thus is not included among the costs when a proposed project or other investment is analyzed; only future return to future cost is considered.

OBS

sunk cost: term reproduced from the CAPITAL Business Dictionary with the permission of LID Editorial Empresarial.

OBS

Compare with "relevant cost".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
  • Planification économique
DEF

Coût résultant d'une décision irrévocable prise dans le passé et constituant, par le fait même, une donnée non pertinente (à l'exception des effets fiscaux s'y rattachant) pour le gestionnaire qui doit prendre une décision. Ainsi, le coût non amorti d'une machine n'influe nullement sur la décision de remplacer cette machine ou de la mettre hors service.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad general
  • Planificación económica
DEF

Costo incurrido con anterioridad y debido a una decisión que no puede ya corregirse y que se encuentra relacionado con equipo especializado o con otros medios de producción no adaptables fácilmente a las necesidades presentes o futuras.

OBS

coste enterrado: término extraído del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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