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Nov 1, 2007 23:18
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French term
arrête
French to English
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Engineering (general)
compressed blocks of wood agglomerate
Les ailes supérieures sont plus courtes, elles supportent des blocs réalisant un garnissage ou hourdis 84 qui comportent des rainures 86 réalisées sur une arrête de deux faces latérales opposées et recevant ces demi poutrelles 82 pour réaliser un dessous du plancher 80 plat.
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edge
I think there's a spelling mistake here. Shouldn't it read 'arête'
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Catherine CHAUVIN
: Oui, d'accord avec edge. Et arête avec un seul t. :-)
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Charles Hawtrey (X)
: Or 'sharp edge'. (Can also mean fishbone, but not here!)
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arris
Strictly speaking, an arête is the edge between two faces: a brick, for example, has 6 faces and 12 arrises. That is confidence level "Highest - I am sure".
However, I can't see an arête being grooved, since, like a line, it is theoretically of zero width, and in practice much too narrow to be grooved. Unless they mean the "arris" has been chamfered (chamfer between two adjacent faces), or, as above, they are misusing "arête" to mean "chant", the (narrow) edge between two OPPOSITE faces. Thus, a plank has two main faces and four "chants", which could indeed be grooved, just as "tongue-and-groove" boarding is grooved (and tongued).
"deux faces OPPOSéES" suggests they do indeed mean "edge/chant", but "arête" is the wrong word for that.
cf chant (parfois écrit "champ") - Face étroite et longue d'un élément équarri, d'une pierre, d'une brique, d'une planche. Syn. "tranche". GB: edge
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Note added at 8 hrs (2007-11-02 08:03:46 GMT)
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That settles it. Have just looked at your "hourdis" question, and everything slots into place, just like these floor blocks onto the steel beams!
It is indeed the edges (chants, tranches - not arêtes) of the blocs/hourdis that are grooved.
However, I can't see an arête being grooved, since, like a line, it is theoretically of zero width, and in practice much too narrow to be grooved. Unless they mean the "arris" has been chamfered (chamfer between two adjacent faces), or, as above, they are misusing "arête" to mean "chant", the (narrow) edge between two OPPOSITE faces. Thus, a plank has two main faces and four "chants", which could indeed be grooved, just as "tongue-and-groove" boarding is grooved (and tongued).
"deux faces OPPOSéES" suggests they do indeed mean "edge/chant", but "arête" is the wrong word for that.
cf chant (parfois écrit "champ") - Face étroite et longue d'un élément équarri, d'une pierre, d'une brique, d'une planche. Syn. "tranche". GB: edge
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Note added at 8 hrs (2007-11-02 08:03:46 GMT)
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That settles it. Have just looked at your "hourdis" question, and everything slots into place, just like these floor blocks onto the steel beams!
It is indeed the edges (chants, tranches - not arêtes) of the blocs/hourdis that are grooved.
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