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Record 1 1987-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pigments and Colours (Arts)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pigments et couleurs (Arts)
OBS

Peut aussi être un adjectif.

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Land Mines
DEF

A mine designed to actuate only when two or more different influences are received either simultaneously or in a pre-determined order.

OBS

combination influence mine; combined influence mine: terms and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines terrestres
DEF

Mine conçue pour n'être déclenchée que si deux ou plusieurs influences sont reçues simultanément ou dans un ordre prédéterminé.

OBS

mine à influences combinées; mine combinée : terme et définition normalisés par l'OTAN.

OBS

mine à influences combinées : terme et définition uniformisés par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre; terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des munitions et le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Minas terrestres
DEF

Mina diseñada para que funcione sólo si recibe simultáneamente, o en un orden preestablecido, dos o más influencias.

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Record 3 1995-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seminar Titles
  • Communication (Public Relations)
OBS

Seminar series.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de séminaires
  • Communications (Relations publiques)
OBS

Série de présentations.

Spanish

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Record 4 2007-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Waves
  • Telecommunications Transmission
CONT

Damped wave transmitters are now outlawed by all countries via international treaties.

Key term(s)
  • damped-wave transmitter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ondes radioélectriques
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
CONT

En 1925, «Anvers Radio» déménagera dans une annexe du service de pilotage et y demeura jusqu'en 1959. On installa un grand émetteur à ondes amorties d'une puissance de 10 kW qui à cette époque était idéal pour de grandes distances.

Spanish

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Record 5 2017-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loads and Weights (Transport.)
  • Trade
DEF

A foreign trade term referring to the weight of the merchandise and its inner or immediate container but not to the outer shipping container.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poids et charges (Transports)
  • Commerce
DEF

Terme de commerce extérieur s'appliquant au poids de la marchandise et de son emballage interne immédiat mais excluant l'emballage extérieur d'expédition.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Peso y carga (Transporte)
  • Comercio
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Record 6 1988-06-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Guns (Naval)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Canons (Navires)

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Descriptive Geometry
CONT

A Möbius strip has a boundary which is a simple closed curve. It can be deformed into a circle, although in the process the strip must be allowed to intersect itself ... The surface which results is a nonorientable surface called a cross-cap. It can be described as a hemisphere which has been pinched together along a short vertical line starting at the pole; the surface then appears to intersect along this line and the line is to be regarded as two lines, each belonging to one of the two parts of the surface which cross along the line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géométrie descriptive
DEF

Nom donné à la surface obtenue en pliant un ruban de Möbius de telle manière que la forme est un cercle.

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
CONT

Na-depleted peralkaline volcanic rocks.

CONT

Lower semiconformable silicified alteration zones are greatly depleted in metals ...

CONT

Virtually all [alteration pipes] are sodium depleted, but mineralogical characteristics vary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
CONT

Roches volcaniques hyperalcalines appauvries en Na.

CONT

Les zones d'altération inférieures semi-concordantes à silice sont très fortement appauvries en métaux [...]

CONT

Pratiquement toutes [les cheminées d'altération] sont appauvries en sodium, mais leurs caractéristiques minéralogiques varient.

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

A memory based on Josephson (junction) technology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
DEF

Memoria formada por componentes cuya función depende del fenómeno de la superconductividad.

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Record 10 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel

Spanish

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