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TASSER [4 records]

Record 1 2012-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
DEF

To leave insufficient horizontal spacing between characters.

Key term(s)
  • character crowding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
OBS

des caractères.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ofimática
DEF

En el reconocimiento óptico de caracteres, [dejar un] espacio horizontal insuficiente entre los caracteres.

OBS

caracteres.

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Record 2 2004-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Placement of Concrete
  • Site Development
DEF

To render a material compact by pressure after it has been deposited or disturbed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mise en place du béton
  • Aménagement du terrain
DEF

Tasser le sol par pilonnage, pour le rendre compact.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aplicación del hormigón
  • Preparación del terreno
DEF

Compactar la arcilla humedeciéndola con agua para darle una consistencia sólida.

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Record 3 2002-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Weaving (Textile Industries)
DEF

To align strands of filling yarn and push them up close together as they are woven. The reed accomplishes this by advancing and receding from the cloth after each passage of the shuttle, driving each pick against the fell of cloth already woven.

CONT

beat up: to drive the filling into its proper position in a fabric being woven.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tissage (Industries du textile)
CONT

Le passage de la navette laisse derrière elle une duite, que la chasse vient tasser, par l'intermédiaire du peigne, contre le tissu précédemment constitué.

Spanish

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Record 4 1997-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Storage Media (Data Processing)
DEF

To reorganize the disk memory by putting files back into a contiguous order, using a defragmenter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Supports d'information (Informatique)
DEF

Réorganiser la mémoire d'un disque en y rangeant les fichiers d'un seul tenant de manière contiguë afin de conserver le plus grand espace de mémoire libre possible en une seule partie.

OBS

Cette action a pour résultat une optisation de la mémoire.

Spanish

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