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Record 1 2000-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Air Transport

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Transport aérien

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Transporte aéreo
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Record 2 2012-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Oceanography
DEF

A tide with one high and one low per day.

OBS

There are generally three types of tides: diurnal, ... semi-diurnal, ... and mixed ... The different types of tides occur due to the arrangement of the land on earth, the shape of the local coastline, and the depth of the water near the coastline.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Océanographie
DEF

Marée qui comporte une pleine mer et une basse mer par jour lunaire.

OBS

L'allure et l'amplitude des marées sont liées à la position relative de la Terre, du Soleil et de la Lune [...] mais aussi aux irrégularités du contour et de la profondeur des bassins océaniques. [...] Le phénomène [...] peut être considéré comme la superposition d'un grand nombre d'ondes et présente, selon les endroits, un caractère diurne, [...] semi-diurne, [...] ou mixte [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
  • Oceanografía
DEF

Régimen de marea que representa una sola marea alta y una sola marea baja a lo largo del día.

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Record 3 1996-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Life Cycle (Informatics)
  • Office Machinery

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cycle de vie (Informatique)
  • Mécanographie

Spanish

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Record 4 1988-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Skiing and Snowboarding
OBS

Disabled skiing term(s).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ski et surf des neiges
OBS

Terme(s) de ski pour handicapés.

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing Research
  • Market Structure (Trade)
OBS

The demand for industrial goods is derived from the demand for consumer products which the industrial items play a part in making.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Étude du marché
  • Morphologie des marchés (Commerce)
CONT

La demande des biens de production est une demande dérivée, elle ne peut être accrue que si l'emploi de ces biens provoque à son tour une demande plus forte des articles qu'ils servent à fabriquer.

Spanish

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Record 6 1996-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Laws and Regulations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements
OBS

Codification 1955.

Key term(s)
  • Règlement relatif aux soins dentaires administrés aux civils

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
DEF

A gene which governs circadian rhythms.

CONT

The National Institute of Mental Health would like to call your attention to the first cloning of a gene that codes for a biological clock gene responsible for daily rhythms in mammals. NIMH grantee Dr. Joseph Takahashi and colleagues at Northwestern University report on their findings in the May 16 issue of Cell (See Northwestern University press release) ...

OBS

rigui: an ancient Chinese sundial.

Key term(s)
  • biological clock gene

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
CONT

Il s'appelle «Clock» et vient d'être découvert au Centre for Biological Timing de la National Science Foundation, situé à la Northwestern University, Evanston (Illinois). Comme son nom l'indique, ce nouveau gène contribue au fonctionnement de «l'horloge interne» qui gouverne le rythme circadien (d'une période voisine de 24 heures) caractérisant la physiologie et le comportement des êtres vivants.

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Safety
DEF

[The] greatest penetration of one body, such as a vehicle, by another during [a] collision ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité routière

Spanish

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Record 9 2013-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

"Power" is a term of art, denoting an authority vested in a person called "the donee", to deal with or dispose of property not his own. A power may be created by reservation or limitation; the dealing or disposition may be total or partial, and for the benefit either of the donee or of others; and the property may be real or personal. A power is distinct from the dominion that a man has over his own property. (36 Hals., 4th, p. 531)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

pouvoir; pouvoir de désignation; pouvoir d'attribution : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 10 1985-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
  • Market Prices

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Prix (Commercialisation)

Spanish

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