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mettre en cascade

English translation: (to) cascade

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French term or phrase:mettre en cascade
English translation:(to) cascade
Entered by: Louisa Tchaicha

10:40 Nov 29, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Science - Physics / système d\\\'émission d\\\'un
French term or phrase: mettre en cascade
Hi,

"Cette solution permet de dissocier et de mettre en cascade, d'une part, la formation d'une lumière laser monochromatique ou quasi monochromatique, issue de la cavité laser pompée et, d'autre part, l'étalement de son spectre grâce à l'utilisation de l'élément non linéaire que constituent les moyens de guidage de la lumière."

Thank you
Louisa Tchaicha
Tunisia
Local time: 09:31
(to) cascade
Explanation:
It's not particularly good English to turn a noun into a verb, but in patents, anything goes! I might, for example, cascade the stages of an amplifier or I might even cascade a series of pumps in a particularly deep well. Although strictly speaking, you can't cascade the abstract noun "formation", I doubt whether anyone would notice (!). You may need to re-jig the whole sentence to make it sound nice.
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chris collister
France
Local time: 10:31
Grading comment
Thanks for all the help :)
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(to) cascade


Explanation:
It's not particularly good English to turn a noun into a verb, but in patents, anything goes! I might, for example, cascade the stages of an amplifier or I might even cascade a series of pumps in a particularly deep well. Although strictly speaking, you can't cascade the abstract noun "formation", I doubt whether anyone would notice (!). You may need to re-jig the whole sentence to make it sound nice.

chris collister
France
Local time: 10:31
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PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Thanks for all the help :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jennifer Levey: In scientific and engineering texts, cascade seems more often to be used as a verb than as a noun.
2 mins
  -> Thanks. "in cascade..." is quite common too
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne
1 hr
agree  rkillings: According to the OED, "cascade" had already been transitive-verbed by the 18thC.
20 hrs
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