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EARTH-MOVING EQUIPMENT [8 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2023-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Construction Site Equipment
  • Earthmoving

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Matériel de chantier
  • Terrassement

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sculpture
DEF

An international movement which emerged in the middle 1960’s developing out of Minimal Art and closely related to Art Povera and Conceptual Art.

OBS

Earth artists rejected the traditional materials of sculpture in favour of ’actual' materials such as rocks, soil, turf and snow. They began by dumping quantities of earth onto the floors of art galleries and allowing it to form its own shape, then they dug into the earth's surface creating holes and trenches... Recently earth-moving equipment has been used to create large-scale monuments reminiscent of pre-historic earthworks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sculpture
CONT

D'autres artistes [...] ont fait pour leurs «géosculptures» [...] des excavations ou des terrassements dignes de travaux publics. Toutes ces œuvres nécessitent une mise en place lourde, complexe, que seule la technologie moderne a pu permettre.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transportation Equipment (General)
CONT

Rexroth manufactures all types of hydraulic and electro-hydraulic equipment for vehicles, earth-moving and construction machinery, battle tanks, mobile guns, other ground and naval applications. Equipment supply ranges from pumps and valves to complete motion control platforms for dynamic simulation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipements de transport
OBS

hydroélectrique : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Site Equipment
  • Earthmoving
CONT

earthmoving: (adjective) having to do with the excavation and transportation of large quantities of earth. Earthmoving machinery.

Key term(s)
  • earth moving equipment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de chantier
  • Terrassement
CONT

[...] choix des engins de terrassement [...] Suivant leurs fonctions, les équipements peuvent être destinés à la fouille, à la charge, au transport, à la décharge, à l'étalement et au cylindrage.

CONT

L'une des particularités des machines de terrassement est leur emploi intermittent.

OBS

engin de terrassement : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipos de construcción
  • Remoción de tierras
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Record 6 2000-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Site Equipment
  • Earthmoving
DEF

(earth-moving plant) A vast variety of construction equipment, which includes various forms of dozers, excavators, scrapers, scarifiers, and graders. Oversize pneumatic tires, diesel engines, and hydraulic or compressed air servo devices have contributed greatly to advanced designs in this field.

DEF

(Earthmover) Any of a variety of construction machines designed to move or transport earth. Earthmovers include heavy-duty trucks with high-sided dump bodies, self-propelled or towed scrapers, wagons, and bulldozers.

CONT

earth-moving plant or muck-shifting plant, machinery such as bowl scrapers, dozers, dumpers, excavators, graders, loading shovels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de chantier
  • Terrassement
CONT

[...] choix des engins de terrassement [...] Suivant leurs fonctions, les équipements peuvent être destinés à la fouille, à la charge, au transport, à la décharge, à l'étalement et au cylindrage.

CONT

L'une des particularités des machines de terrassement est leur emploi intermittent.

Spanish

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Record 7 1991-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Site Development
  • Earthmoving
DEF

The final surface adjustments made to a site after the buildings and other facilities have been put up; the term usually applies to manual placing and raking of topsoil.

CONT

A basic use of the motor grader is, as its name suggests, for shaping and final grading of the total roadway width.

CONT

A few hours of bulldozer work in scraping topsoil into convenient stockpiles out of the way of building operations will save money later in finish grading, planting, and maintenance.

CONT

Any soil that has been heavily compacted by trucking or earth-moving equipment requires well-managed restoration prior to final grading or planting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aménagement du terrain
  • Terrassement
CONT

Nous avons terminé tous les terrassements en déblais ou en remblais. Quels que soient les soins apportés au travail réalisé avec des engins, nous devons parfaire les mises à niveau définitives. Dressons le terrain à la pelle et à la pioche pour éliminer les plus grosses dénivellations restantes et non conformes au plan. Rélons ensuite "grosso modo" à la griffe ou à la bêche, ne serait-ce que pour détasser le sol à l'endroit des déblais ou des passages d'engins. Réglons enfin "définitivement" au râteau. Ce travail de règlement manuel est toujours indispensable, en particulier, pour la pose des canalisations. Seule, la construction des circulations peut être entièrement mécanisée.

Spanish

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Record 8 1986-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Site Equipment
  • Concrete Facilities and Equipment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de chantier
  • Outillage et installations (Bétonnage)

Spanish

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