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ERRATIQUE [5 records]

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Record 1 2012-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
DEF

Unpredictable.

CONT

Chorea is characterized by rapid, purposeless, involuntary movements, most noticeable in the extremities and face. The arms and legs flail about in erratic, jerky, uncoordinated movements that may sometimes be unilateral (hemichorea).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
DEF

Imprévisible.

CONT

Douleur erratique.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A rock fragment carried by glacial ice, deposited at some distance from the outcrop from which it was derived, and generally resting on bedrock of different lithology. Size ranges from a pebble to a house-size block

OBS

The terms "erratic block", "erratic boulder", and "glacial boulder" are used to refer to erratics that are large rock fragments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Fragment rocheux transporté sur une grande distance par un glacier; il diffère du substratum sur lequel il repose.

CONT

Ce terme [les erratiques] se rapporte généralement à des fragments rocheux de grosseur variable, présents à l'intérieur ou à la surface des sédiments. A l'origine, le mot signifie «venu d'ailleurs». L'expression «bloc erratique» est la plus employée et elle désigne le transport par la glace. Les blocs erratiques sont habituellement très volumineux

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geología
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
DEF

Bloque grande, de una piedra diferente de la del terreno sobre el cual se halla, que ha sido transportado hasta su lugar actual por algún glaciar del cuaternario.

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Record 3 2002-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
DEF

Term used to qualify a firearm which constantly fails to place the specified number of shots into the group size required of it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
DEF

Terme employé pour qualifier une arme à feu dont la capacité de groupement est telle qu'elle ne peut loger un nombre spécifié de coups dans un cercle de diamètre déterminé.

OBS

erratique : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères.

Spanish

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Record 4 1995-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
OBS

Related phraseology: streaky player, to be flat, to get sloppy, erratic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

Phraséologie connexe : jouer au yo-yo avec son tennis.

CONT

[Elle] a été erratique sur le terrain.

Spanish

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Record 5 1994-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
OBS

Questions of vocabulary: "laplacian," "benign," or "settled" vs. "vagrant". Again, new terms become indispensable. Let me hereby recommend settled as (a) a synonym of what mathematicians call "stationary and such that X (t) converges to B(t)," and (b) a term for the intuitive idea certain practitioners tend to call "stationarity". The alternative antonyms would be unsettled and vagrant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
DEF

Qui se déplace de façon désordonnée.

PHR

corps vagabond, ensemble non vagabond, attractif vagabond, mobile vagabond, point vagabond, point non vagabond.

Spanish

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