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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 1993-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronomy
CONT

Gibbous, a term signifying 'protuberant', 'swelling out', applied to bodies which are double-convex, and particularly to the moon, when she is within a week of the full.

CONT

... after dichotomy, the terminator becomes convex towards the east and the Moon assumes the shape called gibbous.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronomie
DEF

Se dit de l'aspect d'un astre du système solaire dont la surface éclairée visible occupe plus de la moitié du disque.

CONT

Entre ces trois positions fondamentales [les quartiers], la planète montre des phases intermédiaires, qui vont du fin croissant [...] à la phase «gibbeuse».

Spanish

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Record 2 1979-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fungi and Myxomycetes
DEF

in the form of a swelling ...

OBS

applied to a pileus which is more swollen or convex on one side than the other ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Champignons et myxomycètes
DEF

Muni d'une ou plusieurs bosses.

OBS

[...] un chapeau gibbeux est essentiellement asymétrique et déséquilibré [...] s'il était muni d'une seule protubérance, centrale et régulière, on le dirait simplement: obtusément mamelonné.

Spanish

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Record 3 1978-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Botany
OBS

With an unsymmetrical convexity or umbo, with a convexity on one side, irregularly rounded, gibbose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Botanique
OBS

pourvu d'une ou de plusieurs bosses ou gibbosités (...)

Spanish

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