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Multilingual Technical Dictionary (MTD)
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Term No.Term Name/Term DescriptionAction
294
Section, or Profile
1 - The description or representation of any object as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane, the depiction of what is beyond a plane passing, or supposed to pass, through an object. 2 - See 2447......
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1090
Profile of water table
A vertical section of the aquifer.
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1130
Hydraulic profile of an aquifer
A vertical section of the piezometric surface or the water table of an aquifer.
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1615
Soil profile
Vertical section of soil showing a sequence of horizons from the surface to the parent material.
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2447
Profile
1 - A developed elevation of the intersection of the dam with the original ground or the rock surface, limit of excavation or any other surface along a designed line such as the axis or the upstream or downstream toe. Profiles are commonly classified as U-shaped or V-shaped with variation between these two classifications. 2 - See 294......
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3071
Pressure drag, Form drag, Profile drag, or Induced drag
Component of the total drag representing normal stresses. It is known as `form drag` or `profile drag` if the body in motion through a real liquid is infinite in length. If the body is of finite lateral dimensions, additional drag will be developed (through variation in pressure) as the result of the turbulence around the extremities of the body. T.....
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3287
Longitudinal section, L-Section, or Profile map
1 - A vertical section of a canal along its centre line. 2 - See 295 and 5322.
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3555
Montague profile
Half-gravity parabolic glacis.
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4230
Drawdown curve, or Profile of cone of depression
1 - The line of intersection of the surface of the water in the cone of depression with a vertical plane through the center of a non-artesian well (illustrated). 2 - Graph showing the variation with time of the depth to water, measured at the well or at some specified distance from the well, as caused by pumping......
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6296
Image
Recorded representation of an object produced by optical, electro-optical, optical-mechanical, or electronic means.
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6297
Image enhancement
Manipulation of image density or colour to allow certain features of the image to be seen more easily.
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7506
Baseline profile, or Baseline study
A survey of the environmental conditions and organisms existing in a region prior to unnatural disturbances.
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8178
Image File
A file containing an image.
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8211
Master file
A file or relatively more permanent information, that is usually updated periodically.
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8453
End-of-file (EOF) mark
A code that signals that the last record of a file has been read.
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8462
File protection
1 - A device or method that prevents accidental erasure of operative data on magnetic files.   2 – See 8463.
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8463
File
A collection of related records treated as a unit, e.g., in inventory control, one line of an invoice forms an item, a complete invoice forms a record, and the complete set of such records forms a file......
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8701
Triangular profile weir(Crump Weir)
A weir, used for measuring flow rate,  having a triangular profile in the direction of the stream.
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