Nov 12, 2007 16:48
16 yrs ago
English term

attendant

English to French Law/Patents Mechanics / Mech Engineering Wrapping machine
Wrapping machine
A support bracket is affixed to the main support frame, and the opposite ends of the support bracket form slotted rails which are adapted to accomodate flanged ends of a vertically oriented structure upon which the wrapping machine stretch head is vertically reciprocable **attendant** a film wrapping operation.

Je ne saisis pas bien le sens de "attendant" dans cette phrase. Merci !

Proposed translations

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, concomitant à

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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Merci Alain, et aux autres aussi. Ce terme apparaît dans d'autres phrases et les autres propositions ne conviennent pas."
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surveillant

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Peer comment(s):

agree malligajm : supervisor
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disagree peekay : I simply don't agree; surveillant implies that the former process controls the latter one or at least observes it. Nothing to that effect in the source text.
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en attendant

ce particle attend l'emballage

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Note added at 8 mins (2007-11-12 16:57:10 GMT)
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in the given sentence, the machine is wainting for the next stage
Example sentence:

le paquet reste ici en attendant l'emballage

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accompagnateur

Je le verrais plutôt comme un mécanisme qui accompagne verticalement l'opération d'emballage
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+1
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avant/ précédant

It sounds to me like you are describning a process that occurs before the film wrapping. To that extent, you can dump the headache by simply moving that clause to the begining of your sentence and continuing with your paragraph. Ex: Avant le processus d'emballage, on isntalle un support...
Enclosed is a link to a dicitonary reflecting the associative sense of the word attendant in English.
Peer comment(s):

agree NancyLynn
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