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Primary term
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Secchi disk
- URI
- https://nomenclature.info/nom/14972 (opens semantic view)
- Definition
- An instrument usually consisting of a black and white disk, 30 centimeters (12 inches) in diameter, with an eye bolt mounted at the center top of the disk, and to which is attached a pole or line. Used to measure the water transparency or turbidity of bodies of water by lowering the disk into the water to a depth at which the suspended disk ceases to be visible from the surface.
- Definition source(s)
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- American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), and Canadian Heritage Information Network / Réseau canadien d’information sur le patrimoine. 2018. “Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging / Nomenclature pour le catalogage des objets de musée.” September 1, 2018. https://www.nomenclature.info/.
- English
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- Term (International)
- Secchi disk
- Inverted term (International)
- disk, Secchi
- French
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- Term (International)
- disque de Secchi
- Term gender (International)
- masculine
- Spanish
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- Term
- disco de secchi
- Date created
- 2020-01-24
- Date updated
- 2023-08-28
- Bibliographic citation(s)
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Office québécois de la langue française. n.d. “Disque de Secchi.” Grand dictionnaire terminologique. Accessed July 22, 2019. http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=8485844.
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Translation Bureau / Bureau de la traduction. n.d. “Secchi disk / disque de Secchi.” Termium Plus. Accessed July 22, 2019. http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-fra.html?lang=fra&i=1&srchtxt=secchi&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs.
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Wikipedia. n.d. “Secchi Disk.” Wikipedia. Accessed July 22, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secchi_disk.
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