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Record 1 1988-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Workplace Organization
  • Office Equipment and Supplies

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation du travail et équipements
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
CONT

Section des services des attributions centralisées.

Spanish

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Record 2 1991-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Commercial Aviation
OBS

Associate of Air Canada.

Key term(s)
  • Innotech Aviation Nfld

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Aviation commerciale
OBS

Société affiliée d'Air Canada.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Search and Rescue (Aircraft)
  • Space Centres
OBS

Contains devices to assist recovery and retrieval of re-entry body, eg brightly coloured buoyant balloons, radio beacons and coloured pyrotechnics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherches et sauvetages (Aviation)
  • Centres spatiaux

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dietetics
CONT

Dietary restrictions are usually applicable to persons who need to or want to lose weight and to patients suffering from certain illnesses. For example, obese people are limited in calorie intake, while diabetic patients need to control free sugar consumption.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Diététique
CONT

De nombreuses personnes ont besoin d'un enseignement continu et de rappels sur les diverses restrictions alimentaires, notamment les restrictions en matière d'apport liquidien, en sodium, en potassium et en protéines.

Spanish

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Record 5 1991-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
DEF

Escape of gas between the primer cup and primer pocket of a cartridge or shotshell.

OBS

Term and definition officialized by the Small Arms Terminology Working Group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
DEF

Fuite de gaz entre la capsule de l'amorce et la cuvette d'amorçage d'une cartouche.

OBS

Terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères.

Spanish

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Record 6 1991-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Type spécial de tourbillon détaché des méandres d'un courant océanique.

CONT

La variabilité des courants marins se manifeste par la présence de tourbillons de différentes dimensions. Les scientifiques anglo-saxons les appellent eddies et les classent par taille croissante en swirl entre 10 et 100 km, ring entre 100 et 500 km, au-delà en gyre : en français remous, anneau et circulation.

CONT

La trajectoire du centre de chaque «anneau» se compose principalement de boucles cycloniques.

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

The most common activity for spectators is reading blogs, with only a small overlap with users who watch peer-generated video on sites like YouTube.

Key term(s)
  • peer generated video

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
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Record 8 2000-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production Management

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion de la production

Spanish

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Record 9 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A shrub of the family Rosaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Arbuste de la famille des Rosacées.

Spanish

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Record 10 2014-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glassware
CONT

The term "scuffing" indicates, in packaging circles, the surface changes occurring on glass containers when they successively pass through packaging lines. The combined action of the mechanical shocks and the chemical etch of detergent produces a wearing away of the privileged areas of the container that is visually revealed through whitish marks or rings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Objets en verre
DEF

Formation d’éraflures à la surface d’objets en verre, qui est due au frottement de ces objets entre eux ou qui se produit au contact des équipements de conditionnement ou de manutention.

OBS

abusage : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 25 avril 2014.

Spanish

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