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Record 1 1995-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Applications of Automation
OBS

Located in Schenectady, New York.

Key term(s)
  • General Electric Research and Development Centre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Automatisation et applications
Key term(s)
  • General Electric Research and Development Centre

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Organization
DEF

A sub-division of a headquarters' staff.

OBS

branch; br: designations officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation militaire
DEF

Subdivision de l'état-major d'un quartier général.

OBS

bureau; bur : désignations et définition uniformisées par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre; désignations uniformisées par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Saving and Consumption
DEF

The interest rate at which consumers are willing to forgo present consumption in order to save, presumably for future consumption.

Key term(s)
  • rate-of-pure-time preference

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épargne et consommation

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ahorro y consumo
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Record 4 1992-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

In order to cluster objects into conceptual categories, the notion of similarity must be replaced by a more general notion of conceptual cohesiveness. The conceptual cohesiveness (CC) between two objects A and B depends on the attributes of these objects, the attributes of nearby objects, and the set of concepts available for describing object configurations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Le regroupement conceptuel. (...) on s'intéresse à une proximité conceptuelle entre différentes instances, plutôt qu'à une proximité numérique. De plus, une telle proximité dépend non seulement des instances que l'on veut regrouper en une même classe, mais également des caractéristiques de cette classe et des instances s'y trouvant déjà.

Spanish

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Record 5 1989-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Doors, Windows and Openings (Building Elements)
OBS

"Cathedral ceiling": A ceiling left open to expose the underside of a peaked roof.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ouvertures (Éléments du bâtiment)
OBS

Sur le modèle de "plafond cathédrale", terme implanté au Québec et attesté dans la source M-92-1F, 1977, p. 57.

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Laws and Regulations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements

Spanish

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Record 7 1986-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Model and Figure Making (Hobbies)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Construction de maquettes (Passe-temps)

Spanish

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Record 8 2022-07-19

English

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

An insect (order Diptera) of the family Syrphidae.

OBS

Copestylum avidum: There is no common name for this species of flower fly.

French

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

Insecte (ordre des diptères) de la famille des Syrphidae.

Spanish

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Record 9 2017-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Military Finances
OBS

budget report; BR: designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Finances militaires
OBS

rapport budgétaire; BR : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 10 2008-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

A source of perplexity has been encountered in certain anomalous situations where there is good reason for saying what an event was caused by a particular act, though it still would have happened without that act. Such cases serve as a reminder that, though the "but for" test is satisfactory enough for most purposes, a factor may yet be causally relevant without being a condition sine qua non.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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