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Record 1 1986-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Machinery
OBS

tool

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Closing Devices and Nozzles (Mechanical Components)
  • Refrigerating Machines and Appliances
OBS

water shut-off valve: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • water shut off valve

French

Domaine(s)
  • Obturateurs et buses (Composants mécaniques)
  • Machines frigorifiques
OBS

robinet d'arrêt d'eau : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 1991-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rail Transport

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par rail
DEF

Effort de poussée ou d'attraction entre inducteur et induit produit par réaction électrodynamique.

Spanish

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Record 4 2007-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A family of insects which belongs to the Orthoptera.

Key term(s)
  • bush-crickets

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Famille d'insectes de l'ordre des orthoptères.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Statistics
CONT

The reliability statistics included the root mean square error (RMSE), relative RMSE (RMSEr), bias (Bias) and relative bias ...

OBS

reliability statistics: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Statistique
OBS

statistiques de fiabilité : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 6 2023-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Methods
  • Meteorological Forecasting, Data Measurement and Analysis
  • Oceanography
CONT

Reforecasts (known synonymously as hindcasts or retrospective forecasts) provide a large sample of historical model/ensemble forecasts available to statistically postprocess real-time forecasts using an identical (i.e., statistically consistent) model.

Key term(s)
  • historical reforecast
  • re-forecast

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes statistiques
  • Prévisions météorologiques et mesure et analyse des données
  • Océanographie
CONT

Les prévisions rétrospectives, également connues sous le nom de prévisions a posteriori ou de reprévisions, sont produites à l'aide du même modèle et des mêmes méthodes que les prévisions en temps réel d'un centre de production, mais «prédisent» des états climatiques passés à partir des données d'observation disponibles au moment initial de la prévision rétrospective considérée.

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Operations
  • Oil and Natural Gas Extraction
DEF

Separate, usually much larger and much more expensive, facility to study the process and to produce large quantities or products and by-products for market development and waste-disposal studies.

CONT

The steps in a technological innovation can be considered to be: specification of market need, product idea, development, pilot plant, trial sales, commercial exploitation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation minière
  • Extraction du pétrole et du gaz naturel
DEF

Installation destinée à réaliser une production semi-industrielle avant passage à la fabrication industrielle à grande échelle.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Explotación minera
  • Extracción de petróleo y gas natural
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Record 8 1995-02-28

English

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

A Papuan-Australian language.

French

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

Langue papoue-australienne.

Spanish

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Record 9 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Islamism
DEF

The religious system or distinctive tenets of the Shi'a.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mahométisme
DEF

Religion des musulmans chi'ites.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Islamismo
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