Translation for 'comet tail' from English to French

comet tail

queue {f} d'une comèteastron.

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tail of a comet

queue {f} d'une comèteastron.

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comet

comète {f}astron.

periodic comet

comète {f} périodiqueastron.

secular comet

comète {f} séculaireastron.

comet's train

queue {f} d'une comèteastron.

tail

queue {f}cuis.zool.

curly tail

queue {f} en tire-bouchonzool.

corkscrew tail

queue {f} en tire-bouchonzool.

rudimentary tail

rudiment {m} de queuezool.

tail-unit

empennage {m}aviat.

tail(-end)

queue {f} [de cortège]

to tail off

s'éteindre [conversation]

retomber [devenir moins fort - agitation]

luna-tail

mérou {m} croissant jaune [Variola louti]ichtyo.T

tail lift

pont {m} élévateurautotransp.

lizard tail

herbe {f} à poivre [Houttuynia cordata]bot.T

poivre {m} de Chine [Houttuynia cordata]bot.T

cometary tail

queue {f} d'une comèteastron.

to tail sb. [coll.]

filer qn.dr.

to wag its tail

balancer la queue

mare's tail

prèle {f} des champs [Equisetum arvense]bot.T

• Pinot studied the "comet tails" characteristic of the coast in this area: a comet tail is an accumulation of sediment in a sheltered position behind a reef or small island.
• Some cameras introduced anti comet-tail circuits to provide dynamic correction, when an overload was sensed (ACT circuits), but these were not used in the EMI 2001.
• "The NBC Tracer" was a stroboscopic comet tail showing the path of a pitch to the catcher's glove.
• During March–April 2002, protons from the comet tail may have been detected by the Cassini spacecraft.
• The comet-tail artifact that early CCD sensors suffered from was significantly reduced by the invention of the pinned photodiode (PPD).

• An encounter with a comet tail happened again in 2004 when "Ulysses" flew through the ion tailings of C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley). A coronal mass ejection carried the cometary material to "Ulysses".
• Ultrasound findings may show thickened gall bladder wall, tiny anechoic spaces (Rokitansky–Aschoff sinuses or RAS), and twinkling artifact (or comet-tail reverberation). Comet tail reverberation, which is due to reflections from cholesterol crystals, is a highly specific sign for adenomyomatosis.
• On a CT scan of the chest it appears as a rounded mass like opacity in the peripheral lung adjacent to thickened pleura and with curvilinear opacities which are the bronchi and vessels (comet tail).
• McNaught observed a comet tail which confirmed it as a comet.
• In floating gallstones, reverberation echoes (or comet-tail artifact) is seen instead in a clinical condition called adenomyomatosis.

• Electrophoresis at high pH results in structures resembling comets, observed by fluorescence microscopy; the intensity of the comet tail relative to the head reflects the number of DNA breaks.
• Using the samples returned by the spacecraft Stardust, other scientists discovered the amino acid glycine (C2H5NO2) fully formed in a comet tail, but this glycine was not like this on Earth; it was built with some subtle differences - traces of COOH's important presence and interstellar heritage, as well as strengthened the theory of panspermia, which claims that these "seeds" of life are widespread throughout the universe, and among the most widespread and versatile signaling molecules ever discovered.