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aller-retour

English translation: cycle

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French term or phrase:aller-retour
English translation:cycle
Entered by: Louisa Tchaicha

06:53 Jun 17, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Science - Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng / nanotechnology
French term or phrase: aller-retour
Hi,

"la figure 2b représente le schéma d’un montage utilisé pour la synthèse de nanotubes de carbone en continu sur fibres. Dans ce montage, le ferrocène est utilisé en mélange avec le xylène. Le mélange ferrocène-xylène est introduit via un système d’injection. Les différentes parties de ce montage sont :
1 représente la bobine de fibres commerciale,
2 représente la zone de circulation dans laquelle les fibres circulent pouvant faire jusqu’à 4 aller-retour ou plus, "

Please help
thank you
Louisa Tchaicha
Tunisia
Local time: 05:41
cycle
Explanation:
a sort of option?

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Note added at 2 heures (2011-06-17 09:28:39 GMT)
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the categories are strange: conversation piece?!
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kashew
France
Local time: 06:41
Grading comment
Many thanks to everyone :)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
2 +5cycle
kashew
5back and forth/roundtrip
Akke Wagenaar
3 +1backwards and forwards
Bashiqa


Discussion entries: 4





  

Answers


20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
backwards and forwards


Explanation:
Or there and back

Bashiqa
France
Local time: 06:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 33
Notes to answerer
Asker: thank you!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  kashew: Or; backward and forward movements
2 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +5
cycle


Explanation:
a sort of option?

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Note added at 2 heures (2011-06-17 09:28:39 GMT)
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the categories are strange: conversation piece?!

kashew
France
Local time: 06:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 51
Grading comment
Many thanks to everyone :)
Notes to answerer
Asker: thank you everyone :)

Asker: :)))) nanotecno gathering


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Colin Rowe: I think cycle sounds like a good option here, actually. Agree about the category fields... and yet the strange thing is that these settings appear to have been imposed by one of the moderators! Go figure...
10 mins
  -> to break the ice at a nanotecno gathering!
agree  David Goward: Over-zealous moderating, I'm afraid.
2 hrs
agree  Gregory Flanders: This sounds like English: "back and forth" and "backwards and forwards" in this context don't.
3 hrs
agree  B D Finch: The category should be changed back.
3 hrs
agree  Helen Shiner
3 hrs
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
back and forth/roundtrip


Explanation:
aller-retour in daily life is a roundtrip or return (ticket).
The French text is incorrect, it should be: 4 aller-retours because it is a noun and plural.
...dans laquelle les fibres circulent pouvant faire jusqu’à 4 aller-retour[s] ou plus => in which the fibers are circulating and can go back and forth 4 times or more/can make 4 or more roundtrips

Akke Wagenaar
Local time: 04:41
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: thank you!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Helen Shiner: This has got nothing to do with a round-trip ticket though has it?!
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