FISHTERM bilingual dictionary Search results for 'Bay' (2 record(s))
| RECORD No. | 114 |
| AUTHOR | ELAD D. F. |
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| LAST UPDATE | 2022-11-23 00:00:00 |
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| TERM | * Bay statut: préféré | ||||||||||||||||
| PART OF SPEECH | noun | ||||||||||||||||
| PLURAL | Bays ; | ||||||||||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Late Middle English: from Old French baie, from Old Spanish bahia, of unknown origin. | ||||||||||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | ||||||||||||||||
| DEFINITION |
An area of the sea or a large lake, partly surrounded by a wide curve of land.
In international fisheries law, it is a well-marked indentation whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain land-locked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast, with its area as large as, or larger than, that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across the mouth of that indentation. | ||||||||||||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea | ||||||||||||||||
| USAGE EXAMPLE | 1. " For the purposes of this Convention, a bay is a well-marked indentation whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain land-locked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast. An indentation shall not, however, be regarded as a bay unless its area is as large as, or larger than, that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across the mouth of that indentation. " (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 10, paragraph 2); 2. " Where the distance between the low-water marks of the natural entrance points of a bay exceeds 24 nautical miles, a straight baseline of 24 nautical miles shall be drawn within the bay in such a manner as to enclose the maximum area of water that is possible with a line of that length. " ( United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 10, paragraph 5) | ||||||||||||||||
| RECORD No. | 25 |
| AUTHOR | ELAD D. F. |
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| LAST UPDATE | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
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| TERM | * Bayésien statut: préféré | ||||
| PART OF SPEECH | adjectif | ||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Du nom propre (Thomas) Bayes, ‘nom d’un mathématicien britannique’, et -ien, ‘relatif à’ | ||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005). | ||||
| DEFINITION |
Une approche statistique formelle dans laquelle les connaissances ou les croyances des experts sont analysées en même temps que les données. Se dit d’une méthode de décision qui utilise le calcul des probabilités conditionnelles et notamment le théorème de Bayes | ||||
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| DEFINITION SOURCE | Fishterm | ||||
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| TERM | * Bayesian statut: préféré | ||||
| PART OF SPEECH | adjective | ||||
| ETYMOLOGY | From the English proper noun Thomas Bayes, ‘a British mathematician’, and the affix of Latin origin -ian, ‘pertaining to’ | ||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | ||||
| DEFINITION |
A formal statistical approach in which expert
knowledge or beliefs are analyzed together with data. of or referring to the British mathematician Thomas Bayes | ||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
SCRS (2001) | ||||
| NOTES | Bayesian methods make explicit use of probability for quantifying uncertainty. Bayesian methods are particularly useful for making decision analyses. (Gelman et al. 1995; Porch 1999a; Walters and Ludwig 1994) | ||||
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2. Legal instruments related to: Bay |
1. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 10, paragraph 1:
" 1. This article relates only to bays the coasts of which belong to a single State. "
2. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 10, paragraph 2:
" 2. For the purposes of this Convention, a bay is a well-marked indentation whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain land-locked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast. An indentation shall not, however, be regarded as a bay unless its area is as large as, or larger than, that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across the mouth of that indentation. "
3. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 10, paragraph 4:
" If the distance between the low-water marks of the natural entrance points of a bay does not exceed 24 nautical miles, a closing line may be drawn between these two low-water marks, and the waters enclosed thereby shall be considered as internal waters. "
4. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 10, paragraph 5:
" Where the distance between the low-water marks of the natural entrance points of a bay exceeds 24 nautical miles, a straight baseline of 24 nautical miles shall be drawn within the bay in such a manner as to enclose the maximum area of water that is possible with a line of that length. "
