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Record 1 2000-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Demography
DEF

The people of a city or a country.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Démographie
DEF

Ensemble des personnes qui habitent un espace.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Demografía
DEF

Conjunto de habitantes de una comunidad administrativa y políticamente delimitable, ya sea barrio, distrito, municipio, provincia, región, o Estado.

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Record 2 2009-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
Draba porsildii
Latin
OBS

A plant of the family Brassicaceae.

Key term(s)
  • Porsild's whitlow-grass
  • Porsild's whitlow grass

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Draba porsildii
Latin
OBS

Plante de la famille des Brassicaceae.

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production Management
OBS

Of a service.

OBS

final output: term used at the Treasury Board Secretariat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion de la production
OBS

D'un service.

OBS

extrant final : terme en usage au Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor.

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
DEF

Dépot de glace sur un navire ou une installation en mer.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Física de la atmósfera
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Record 5 1989-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
CONT

for mass planting in contained area.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Military Titles
  • Operations (Air Forces)
OBS

Support Capability Advisory Group; Sp CAG: title and shortened form to be used by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces (Air Command, Winnipeg).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations militaires diverses
  • Opérations (Forces aériennes)
OBS

Groupe consultatif sur les capacités de soutien; GCC Sout : titre et forme abrégée d'usage obligatoire au ministère de la Défense nationale et dans les Forces canadiennes (Commandement aérien, Winnipeg).

Spanish

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Record 7 2001-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
  • Real Estate
OBS

AFD: Alternate Forms of Delivery.

OBS

Term drawn from the Alternate Forms of Delivery Glossary, Real Property Services.

Key term(s)
  • Alternate Forms of Delivery manager

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
  • Immobilier
OBS

AFPS : autres formes de prestation de services.

OBS

Terme tiré du lexique des autres formes de prestation de services, Services immobiliers.

Key term(s)
  • gestionnaire des autres formes de prestation de services
  • gestionnaire en matière d'autres formes de prestation de services

Spanish

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Record 8 2004-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
  • Industrial and Economic Psychology
  • Sociology of Human Relations
  • Social Psychology
DEF

The power of a leader that is based on the leader's attractiveness. The leader is admired because of certain personal qualities, and the follower identifies closely with those qualities.

CONT

An effective self-presentation as a role-model. Five types of power have been identified: referent, expert, reward, coercitive, and legitimate. (French & Raven, The Bases of social Power).

CONT

Referent power exists when person B is willing to do things for person A based on respect and admiration for A.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
  • Psychologie industrielle et économique
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
  • Psychologie sociale
DEF

Capacité d'influencer les actions d'une personne fondée sur les désirs d'identification de cette dernière avec l'agent du pouvoir.

CONT

Le pouvoir charismatique est la capacité pour le dirigeant d'entraîner ses subordonnés par sa manière d'être et de parler, de leur faire partager ses buts, d'incarner les idéaux collectifs et de jouer sur les motivations que ceux-ci mobilisent pour les faire agir au delà de ce qu'ils pourraient par eux-mêmes (dépassement).

Spanish

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Record 9 1990-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Site Development
CONT

Grading is undertaken for both functional and aesthetic reasons. Some of these are: ... to create earth berms for the control of wind and noise, and to emphasize space ....

CONT

Earth berms and mounds are used to improve site drainage, to moderate the wind, create visual and noise buffers and enclose private space. Berms are often constructed from excess soil fill that otherwise would have to be removed from the site; they should have gentle slopes ..., appear in visual scale with surrounding landforms, have smoothly rounded edges ..., and have a sufficient covering of topsoil for plant growth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
  • Aménagement du terrain
DEF

Dans les jardins paysagers, suite d'ondulations données artificiellement au sol pour mettre en relief certaines parties.

CONT

La création d'un vallonnement permet, souvent, d'éviter des apports de terre; celle provenant du déblai pour construire la petite vallée sert à l'édification des buttes qui la bordent.

Spanish

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Record 10 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Modiolus modiolus
Latin
OBS

horsemussel: trade name recommended by the "Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales" and by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Modiolus modiolus
Latin
OBS

modiole : nom commercial normalisé par l'OLF et le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales.

Spanish

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