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09:00 Apr 4, 2018 |
French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Engineering: Industrial / Usinage | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Tony M France Local time: 08:07 | ||||||
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4 | machining jig / fixture |
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1 -1 | install machine tools |
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Posage d\'usinage install machine tools Explanation: without the full context I'd guess the translation were something along the lines of "So we should install machine tools to ..." Reference: http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/posage/62827?q... Reference: http://machinetools.bhavyamachinetools.com/installing-machin... |
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posage d'usinage machining jig / fixture Explanation: On the basis of what you have identified as the meaning, I'd expect this to be called a 'jig' — something that in some way holds something in the right place etc. for machining. Another term also used is 'machining fixture' — especially appropriate, perhaps, where the notion of 'fixing' comes in. This might perhaps be what you need for 'montage' to distinguish it from 'posage'. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2018-04-04 10:23:27 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- To answer Marie-Christine's point about 'gabarit' — in engineering, and in both FR and EN, these sorts of terms are used in many different ways: a 'jig' may be for fixing / holding something, or for measuring something; in the former sense, it can also be referred to as a 'fixture'; in the latter, as a 'gauge'. Likewise, a 'gabarit' can be a 'template' or a 'model', and even a 'gauge' too — cf. railways. As so often, there is no such thing as a simplistic, 1:1 correspondence between these terms when you start getting right down into the nitty-gritty of the subject — and believe me, I've been getting my hands dirty in engineering long enough to be all too painfully aware of this! |
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