Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
dispositif de capture (foudre)
English translation:
(lightning) capture system
French term
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dispositif de capture (foudre)
| 4 +4 | (lightning) capture system |
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| 3 | lightning capture system |
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Proposed translations
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(lightning) capture system
http://www.erico.com/catalog/literature/E1290B-USEN.pdf
Lightning capture devices 14 Down conductors
http://library.e.abb.com/public/76a1b49c473847dc...
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Note added at 15 mins (2021-06-26 16:43:09 GMT)
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It's on page 31 of Manuela's document.
| Thank you Phil, great! |
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Conor McAuley
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Samuël Buysschaert
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Z-Translations Translator
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AllegroTrans
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lightning capture system
Secondly, it's part of camera where it's used as an image and motion capturing device.
"There's a challenge of transporting the image capture device outside to be able to study. The occurrence is called correction gamma, which occurs in the camera's image capture device."
(FR: Il y a deux possibilités. Premièrement c'est une part liée sur le tôt d'un bâtiment, d'où les rayons de foudre sont envoyés en terre. Deuxièmement, c'est une pièce d'un appareil-foto qui peut capturer des images et des motions.)
"Les paratonneres sont destinés à protéger des bâtiments contre les impacts de foudre direct. .. Les installations comportent, reliés entre eux, les dispositifs de capture, les circuits de descente à la terre, les prises en terre."
"Il y a un défi de transporter le dispositif de capture du mouvement à l'extérieur pour pouvoir étudier. Cette occurrence s'appelle correction gamma; elle est réalisée dans le dispositif de capture d'images en l'occurrence de la caméra."
http://www.energie-foudre.com/pdf/dispositif_de_capture.pdf
https://www.linguee.com/french-english/translation/dispositif+de+capture.html
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AllegroTrans
: Same answer as Phil's. Why do you not have the simple courtesy to post an agree as others have done?
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philgoddard
: I know you never read other people's answers or comments but, just for the record, it's nothing to do with cameras.
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Discussion
You will see on p. 31 that the "dispositifs de capture" aka "pointes captrices" are sharply pointed spikes. The intense electric field around these spikes ionises the air around them, turning the air into a conductive gas which allows the atmospheric charge to drain away to ground, hopefully before the spike actually gets struck. So strictly speaking it's not the lightning itself that's being "captured" but electric charge. In EN I think we would just use the rather general term "lightning rod" though strictly speaking it's an "anti-lightning rod".