Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

pointe diamant avec un retour gravitaire

English translation:

diamond tip with a gravity return

Added to glossary by philgoddard
Aug 20, 2014 14:29
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French term

pointe diamant avec un retour gravitaire

French to English Tech/Engineering Mechanics / Mech Engineering specs for supply of equipment
Groupe hydraulique :
Dans cette application, le groupe est intégré à la machine sous la pointe diamant avec un retour gravitaire.
On privilégiera des liaisons rigides pour l’ensemble du circuit hydraulique.
La recirculation sera effectuée par le drain de retour du limiteur de pression.
Proposed translations (English)
4 diamond tip with a gravity return
Change log

Sep 16, 2014 19:38: philgoddard Created KOG entry

Discussion

Duncan Moncrieff Aug 20, 2014:
Maybe the problem is how you're cutting the sentence up:
the "groupe", whatever it is, is integrated into the machine under the diamond point, with a gravity return.
The gravity return has nothing directly to do with the diamond point.
At least not from how I'm reading it at the moment.
philgoddard Aug 20, 2014:
Well, I'm not clear what this machine is or what the "pointe diamant" does, but retour gravitaire is gravity return.
Ashok Bagri (asker) Aug 20, 2014:
Literal translation does not sound right:
under the diamond tip with return by gravity
philgoddard Aug 20, 2014:
Have you rejected the obvious literal translation?

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diamond tip with a gravity return

You haven't said what the machine is, though it presumably involves drilling. As Duncan points out in the discussion entries, it's probably the "groupe" that has a gravity return. And the latter means that it returns to its starting position by the force of gravity rather than, say, a spring.
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