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Record 1 2017-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Customer Relations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Relations avec la clientèle

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

The Turkic language spoken by the Balkars, a member of a Sunni Muslin people living mainly in the Kabardino-Balkar, in the former Soviet Union, closely related to the Karachai.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue altaïque parlée par les Balkars, peuple turc du Caucase du Nord, habitant les hautes vallées des affluents du Terek.

Spanish

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Record 3 1995-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
  • Respiratory System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
  • Appareil respiratoire
OBS

Client : Défense (protection respiratoire).

OBS

Source : 3M Canada.

Spanish

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Record 4 1990-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
OBS

Lexique de l'emploi. Emploi et Immigration Canada, 1990.

Spanish

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Record 5 1991-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lasers and Masers

French

Domaine(s)
  • Masers et lasers

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

The design of gravity rapid sand filters shall be based on a maximum design filtration rate of two gallons per square foot per minute. As the beginning of filter runs for declining rate filters, a maximum filtration rate of three gallons per square foot per minute is allowed. The filter discharge piping shall be designed with an orifice or other permanently installed flow limiting device to ensure that the maximum filter rate cannot be exceeded... With the exception of declining rate filters, each filter unit shall be equipped with a manually adjustable rate-of-flow indication or control valves with indicators.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
  • Traitement des eaux
  • Traitement des eaux usées
CONT

[...] réalisation, dans certains cas, soit de filtres à vitesse décroissante (double filtration, filtres, dual media filter), soit de filtres à granulométries différentes.

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cranes (Hoisting and Lifting)
  • Gantry and Travelling Cranes
Universal entry(ies)
H
symbol
DEF

The vertical distance from the level of the plane on which the crane is resting up to the load-handling device when it is located at its uppermost working position: for hooks and forks, up to their bearing surface; for other load-handling attachments, up to their lowest point (when closed).

OBS

For overhead type cranes, the lifting height is to be measured from the ground level. The lifting height is to be determined without load, the crane being erected on a level site.

OBS

load-lifting height: term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grues (Levage)
  • Ponts roulants et portiques (Levage)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
H
symbol
DEF

Distance verticale entre le niveau d'appui de l'appareil de levage à charge suspendue et le dispositif de préhension se trouvant en position supérieure; pour crochets et fourches, la cote est prise à leur surface d'appui; pour les autres dispositifs de préhension, la cote est prise à leur point le plus bas (en position fermée).

OBS

Pour les ponts roulants, la hauteur de levage est déterminée à partir du niveau du sol. La hauteur de levage est à déterminer sans charge, l'appareil de levage étant installé sur un terrain horizontal.

OBS

course de levage : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography
DEF

[The] study of film from a variety of perspectives including psychological, sociological and aesthetic disciplines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
CONT

Ensemble des études consacrées à la cinématographie sous tous ses aspects et à son influence [...]

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Positions
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Museums
OBS

Environment Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Postes gouvernementaux
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Muséologie
OBS

Environnement Canada.

Spanish

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Record 10 1985-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
OBS

Life preserver buoy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)

Spanish

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