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DRIVING FORCE [6 records]

Record 1 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

The impetus, power, or energy behind something in motion ...

CONT

He was clearly the driving force in the new administration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

La force vive de [l'entreprise,] ce sont les employés. [Une] entreprise américaine [...] classée au troisième rang des «100 compagnies pour lesquelles travailler», selon le magazine US Fortune. Le secret? Des ressources humaines du tonnerre [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Periodicals
  • Social Services and Social Work
  • Cancers and Oncology
OBS

Canadian Cancer Society.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de périodiques
  • Services sociaux et travail social
  • Cancers et oncologie
OBS

Titre d'un bulletin de la Société canadienne du cancer, à l'intention des chauffeurs bénévoles.

OBS

Le fil conducteur : terme retenu par le réseau Entraide Traduction Santé.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Equipment
  • Equipment (Chemistry)
  • Petrochemistry
OBS

Term(s) taken from a Canadian laboratory-equipment company's catalogue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel et équipement (Recherche scientifique)
  • Équipement (Chimie)
  • Chimie du pétrole
OBS

Terme(s) tiré(s) du catalogue d'une compagnie canadienne d'équipement de laboratoire.

Spanish

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Record 4 1990-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

In order to investigate the role of driving force one changes the pressure of the less viscous fluid.

CONT

In addition to surface tension and its anisotropy, such further parameters as the amount of fluctuations and the driving force can influence the geometry of the resulting interfacial patterns.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 5 1987-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 6 1979-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics (Physics)
CONT

A discrete particle is one that, in settling, does not alter its size, shape, or weight. In falling freely through a quiescent fluid, [it] accelerates until the frictional resistance or drag, of the fluid equals the impelling force acting upon the particle. Thereafter, the particle settles at a uniform (terminal) velocity ... the impelling force equals the effective weight of the particle ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie chimique
  • Mécanique des fluides et hydraulique (Physique)
CONT

Lorsqu'une particule grenue est laissée à elle-même dans un liquide au repos, elle est soumise à une force motrice, la pesanteur, et à une force résistante, la traînée du fluide qui est la résultante des forces visqueuses et d'inertie.

Spanish

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