piquage
English translation: tapping into
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| 09:16 Apr 13, 2015 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng / protection contre des eff | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Tony M France Local time: 22:22 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | tapping into |
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| 4 | tapping an electrical cable |
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| 3 | tap-off |
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| 3 | connection |
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tap-off Explanation: I would say this was the more correct form |
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36 mins confidence:
| piquage sur le câble électrique tapping an electrical cable Explanation: compare pictures and texts: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=piquage sur le câble elect... https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tapping an electrical cabl... it is a form of "connecting", but a very specific form - not all "connecting" could be called "tapping". |
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59 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1| effectuer un piquage sur tapping into Explanation: This would be the correct expression for use in the FIRST instance: "Mais la réalisation de ce raccordement par dérivation est complexe puisqu'il nécessite d'effectuer un piquage sur le câble du réseau" Though I think in EN it would probably be more natural to write "requires you to tap into..." — though the use of the 2nd person is obviously not really appropriate for the register of your document. Hence "...requires tapping into..." would probably be more suitable in your context. Still les formally, we'd probably say "...means you have to tap into..." The point of this 'complexity' being that you are effectively breaking into the cable, with all the implications that has for integrity of insulation, watertightness, etc. In your second instance, to avoid having to use the awkward "this tapping-into...", I think I would re-phrase entirely, and say something like "Tapping into the feeder in this way is normally achieved using... " etc. |
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1 day 23 hrs confidence:
connection Explanation: .. |
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