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Frangible

[frɑ̃ʒibl]

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Définitions de « frangible »

Qui peut être facilement cassé ou brisé.

Le présent marché a pour objet la fourniture, l’équipement, la livraison et l’implantation d’un abri frangible pour le futur ILS de l’aérodrome de Chateauroux.
— SNA Sud Ouest, Fourniture

Du latin frangere (briser), avec le suffixe -ible. Apparu au XVème siècle.

Dr David Vos, a rider, aviation engineer, frangible device expert and risk management steering group member, told the FEI eventing seminar on 20 January that 90% of serious horse falls are happening at non-frangible fences.
Horse & Hound — Frangible fences, new data on eventing horse falls and what the future holds
Effective Dec. 1, 2023, USEF rule EV145.8 will require, whenever possible, new cross-country obstacles (for which frangible devices are appropriate) to be constructed with FEI approved frangible technology for the Training level and above (previously it was Modified and above).
USEA : United States Eventing Association Inc. — Rule Refresher: Frangible Essentials for Riders and Jump Judges
By the end of World War II, student gunners had fired 13,000,000 rounds of frangible bullets in seven American gunnery schools - all without injuring a single pilot of a target plane. While the project faded out of existence after the war, it earned Gross the Presidential Medal of Merit, along with a highly prosperous rest of his academic career as the Duke Dean of the Graduate School (1947-1952), then Dean of the University (1952-1958), and then Vice-President in the Educational Division (1949-1960).
The Chronicle — Like lead-filled piñatas: the story of the Frangible Bullet Project, Duke’s largest military-funded research endeavor - The Chronicle

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