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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2025-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clocks, Watches and Bells
DEF

The hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Horlogerie et sonnerie

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clocks, Watches and Bells
DEF

A hand marking seconds on a timepiece mounted concentrically with the other hands and read from the same dial as the minute hand.

Key term(s)
  • centre-second hand
  • center-second hand
  • center second hand
  • centre-second
  • center second
  • center-second

French

Domaine(s)
  • Horlogerie et sonnerie
CONT

L'aiguille des secondes prend le nom de [...] «trotteuse centrale» ou «seconde centrale» si elle est fixée sur le même axe que celle des heures.

Spanish

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Record 3 2025-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clocks, Watches and Bells
DEF

A watch with the seconds hand at the centre of the watch, a movement which requires a supplementary third wheel and fourth pinion.

Key term(s)
  • sweep seconds watch
  • sweep-second watch
  • sweep second watch

French

Domaine(s)
  • Horlogerie et sonnerie

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Toys (General)
DEF

Toy vehicle having a seat allowing a toddler or small child to sit astraddle while using its feet to move forwards or back without pedals. Some ride-on toys come in the shape of a horse or other animal mounted on wheels.

OBS

"Ride-on toys" is the title and subject of an article published in the Toy report, 1987, by the Canadian Toy Testing Council and Consumers' Association of Canada, Ottawa.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et jouets (Généralités)
OBS

trotte-bébé : équivalent fourni par le magasin Toys’R’Us.

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clothing (General)
OBS

skirt, costume, dress

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vêtements (Généralités)
DEF

Se dit d’un manteau, d’une robe, d’un tailleur ou d’une jupe de ville, de ligne sobre et dégagée, conçus en principe de façon à permettre de marcher rapidement.

CONT

une robe trotteuse; une robe trotteur.

Spanish

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Record 6 1979-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Swimming
OBS

The correct reading of "sweep-second" watches shall be as follows: When the second hand is stopped exactly on the 10th mark, that 10th shall be the last digit of the correct time for the watch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Natation
OBS

(...) pour les chronomètres à trotteuse centrale,(...) si l'aiguille des secondes s’arrête exactement sur un dixième de seconde, ce dixième devient la dernière décimale du temps relevé par le chronomètre.

Spanish

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