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POLYGONAL [17 records]

Record 1 2014-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
  • Residential Architecture
DEF

A roof having more than four sides [all hipped equally so as to have a pyramidal form].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
  • Architecture d'habitation
DEF

Toit qui, en plan, forme une figure limitée par plus de quatre lignes droites.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Techos (Elementos de edificios)
  • Arquitectura de viviendas
DEF

Cubierta que, en planta, tiene figura geométrica de más de cuatro lados.

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Record 2 2012-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bronchi
OBS

small-cell carcinoma: a radiosensitive tumor composed of small, oval, undifferentiated cells that are intensely hematoxyphilic and typically bronchogenic.

OBS

bronchogenic carcinoma: carcinoma of the lung, so called because it arises from the epithelium of the bronchial tree.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bronches
DEF

Carcinome composé de petits éléments dont les noyaux présentent des caractères similaires à ceux des cellules en grains d'avoine mais dont le cytoplasme est plus abondant.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A soil which is characterized by irregular (polygonal) prisms formed by intensive shrinkage of dispersed homogenous soil material.

OBS

This phenomenon may be observed both in torrid deserts and in the Arctic regions.

OBS

polygonal ground; polygonal soil; polygon ground; cellular soil: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Sol typique des régions périglaciaires, et qui présente en plan des polygones, de quelques centimètres à quelques décimètres de côté, dessinés par des accumulations de débris rocheux ou par la végétation.

OBS

sol polygonal; terrain réticulé : termes en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 4 2009-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

... a polygon of n circuits which ends at the starting point after having served n centres.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Un réseau polygonal est constitué par un polygone de n circuits se refermant sur lui-même après avoir desservi n centres.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surveying
  • Mathematical Geography
  • Plane Geometry
DEF

having many sides (a -- figure)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arpentage
  • Géographie mathématique
  • Géométrie plane
DEF

Qui a plusieurs angles.

CONT

ligne polygonale (polygonale). Ligne composée de portions de droites non alignées.

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-10-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of the Sea
CONT

... In certain geographical circumstances it is permissible to draw straight lines across the sea on a map, form headland to headland, or from island to island, and to measure the territorial sea from those straight lines. Art. 4 of the Geneva Convention [on the territorial sea] provides: "1. In localities where the coastline is deeply indented and cut into, or if there is a fringe of islands along the coast in its immediate vicinity, the method of straight baselines joining appropriate points may be employed in drawing the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.

CONT

Formerly, the English Kings claimed jurisdiction over the sea areas between lines drawn from headland to headland round the British coasts. ... This method of drawing a line connecting headland's on a coast and claiming the waters on the landward side of that line as territorial waters is very often referred to as hadland theory.

CONT

... The canadian Government ... on July 23, 1964, passed legislation establishing a twelve-mile fishery zone to be applied in conjunction with a straight base line known as "the headland to headland principle".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la mer
DEF

Méthode qui, pour appliquer la règle de la laisse de basse mer [...] à la délimitation de la mer territoriale, choisit comme lignes de base, des lignes droites tirées d'un point de la côte à un autre et d'île en île de sorte que la limite extérieure de la mer territoriale est déterminée par des lignes droites parallèles aux premières et distantes de celles-ci de la largeur de la mer territoriale.

OBS

Dénomination adoptée par Gidel, t. III, p. 505 pour désigner la méthode des lignes de base droites pour appliquer la règle de la laisse de basse mer en vue de la délimitation de la mer territoriale.

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

A rendering technique used by most 3D softwares, which allows to create a wide range of shapes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
DEF

Technique de rendu utilisé par la plupart des logiciels 3D permettant de créer une grande variété de formes.

OBS

L'objet est représenté par un ensemble de faces (ou facettes) polygonales.

Spanish

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Record 8 1991-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of the Sea

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la mer
DEF

Procédé utilisé pour déterminer la limite externe de la mer territoriale qui est la parallèle, à une distance donnée, de la ligne de base.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho del mar
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Record 9 1991-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 10 1990-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 11 1990-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 12 1989-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Peat and Peat Bogs
DEF

A perennially frozen bog, rising about 1m above the surrounding fen. The surface is relatively flat, scored by a ploygonal pattern of trenches that developed over ice wedges.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tourbières
DEF

[Tourbière oligotrophe] pergélisolée dominant d'environ 1 m la (tourbière minérotrophe] avoisinante. La surface, assez plate, est caractérisée par une configuration polygonale de sillons formés sur des fentes de gel.

Spanish

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Record 13 1989-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Peat and Peat Bogs
DEF

A bog with flat-topped or convex peat surfaces (often referred to as "high-centre polygons") separated by trenches over ice wedges that form a polygonal pattern when viewed from above. The peat was deposited in permafrost environment, as shown by internal structures.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tourbières
DEF

[Tourbière oligotrophe] à surfaces tourbeuses convexes ou planes (souvent appelées polygones à centre convexe) séparées par des sillons sur des fentes de glace qui, vus du dessus, forment un polygone. La tourbe s'est accumulée dans un milieu pergélisolé, comme l'indiquent les structures internes.

Spanish

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Record 14 1989-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Peat and Peat Bogs
DEF

A fen developed on perennially frozen lowlands where the intense winter cold causes the formation of polygonal cracks and ice wedges.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tourbières
DEF

[Tourbière minérotrophe] formée sur des basses terres pergélisolées où le froid intense en hiver entraîne la formation de fissures polygohales et de fentes de gel.

Spanish

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Record 15 1985-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Fairs, Exhibitions, and Shows

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salons, foires et expositions (Commerce)

Spanish

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Record 16 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique

Spanish

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Record 17 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Applications of Concrete
  • Structural Framework
OBS

folded-plate concrete construction. This is also known as prismatic-shell and hipped-plate. [It] consists (...) of several thin plates intersecting along their edges and diaphragms normal to the edges.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Utilisation du béton
  • Charpentes
OBS

--structure portante composée de panneaux formant un ensemble prismatique ou pyramidal.

Spanish

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