Nov 15, 2007 08:11
16 yrs ago
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French term
en micron
French to English
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Mechanics / Mech Engineering
grinding machine
e.g. garde avant usinage en micron= 000
My question is really about a standard way of notating the unit measurements i.e. should it be
blah blah blah in microns ?
blah blah blah, (microns) ?
or what?
Again thanks for any help.
My question is really about a standard way of notating the unit measurements i.e. should it be
blah blah blah in microns ?
blah blah blah, (microns) ?
or what?
Again thanks for any help.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +2 | micrometres/ers |
Bourth (X)
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| 5 +1 | (in microns) |
Attila Piróth
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| 4 | microns |
Bashiqa
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Proposed translations
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micrometres/ers
Irrespective of how you present the information, correct usage these days calls for "micrometres" or "micrometers", with the respective accents rather than "microns".
You know the French. They've only (just) managed to get over "anciens francs", so it will take them 50 years yet to start talking "micromètres". Silly, really, since it was they who invented the darn things and Cartesianism would really require a logical continuation:
mètre, decimètre, centimètre, millimètre, micromètre ...
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-11-15 11:34:01 GMT)
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Un micromètre (symbole μm) vaut 10-6 = 0, 000 001 mètre. On utilisait auparavant le nom micron ; il a été retiré du système international en 1968, ...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromètre
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-11-15 11:35:03 GMT)
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Jeez, they've already had 39 years to get the hang of it ...
You know the French. They've only (just) managed to get over "anciens francs", so it will take them 50 years yet to start talking "micromètres". Silly, really, since it was they who invented the darn things and Cartesianism would really require a logical continuation:
mètre, decimètre, centimètre, millimètre, micromètre ...
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-11-15 11:34:01 GMT)
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Un micromètre (symbole μm) vaut 10-6 = 0, 000 001 mètre. On utilisait auparavant le nom micron ; il a été retiré du système international en 1968, ...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromètre
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-11-15 11:35:03 GMT)
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Jeez, they've already had 39 years to get the hang of it ...
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Comment: "Thanks everyone - This answer was the most complete."
18 mins
microns
No problem here. Microns perfectly acceptable in French and English. Only difference some oldies like me talk in 1/000 of an inch instead of 1/000 of a mm
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Attila Piróth
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(in microns)
I would certainly not omit "in".
And I would probably put "in microns" in parentheses; this format may be a bit easier to read when the sentence is fairly long.
And I would probably put "in microns" in parentheses; this format may be a bit easier to read when the sentence is fairly long.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Gita Madhu (X)
: Seems more popular anyway. So it would depend on the target audience.
17 hrs
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