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sottana/soprana

French translation: meule courante (ou mobile)/meule dormante (ou gisante)

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Italian term or phrase:sottana/soprana
French translation:meule courante (ou mobile)/meule dormante (ou gisante)
Entered by: enrico paoletti

21:24 Jan 29, 2020
Italian to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Mechanics / Mech Engineering / Meule/mouture du grain
Italian term or phrase: sottana/soprana
Il sistema della macina aveva come motore una ruota a pale costruita in legno di quercia.
Il suo asse verticale, chiamato fuso, attraversava la volta del carcerario e successivamente il banco di macina e la mola fissa, detta mola sottana.

Esso veniva calibrato mediante l’ausilio di due leve che consentivano al mugnaio di alzare la mola soprana di frazioni di millimetro. necessarie a controllare la grana del prodotto macinato.
Marilyn D.
France
Local time: 23:55
meule courante (ou mobile)/meule dormante (ou gisante)
Explanation:
♦ Meule courante, tournante, traînante; meule de dessus. Meule mobile qui tourne sur une autre meule qui est fixe.
Un broyeur à meules [pour couleurs] se compose de deux meules, une fixe (…) et une tournante (Coffignier, Coul. et peint.,1924, page 76).
Meule dormante, gisante; meule de dessous. Meule qui est fixe par opposition à meule courante.
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meule courante (ou mobile)/meule dormante (ou gisante)


Explanation:
♦ Meule courante, tournante, traînante; meule de dessus. Meule mobile qui tourne sur une autre meule qui est fixe.
Un broyeur à meules [pour couleurs] se compose de deux meules, une fixe (…) et une tournante (Coffignier, Coul. et peint.,1924, page 76).
Meule dormante, gisante; meule de dessous. Meule qui est fixe par opposition à meule courante.


    https://www.lalanguefrancaise.com/dictionnaire/definition-meule/
enrico paoletti
France
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian, Native in FrenchFrench
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agree  Maïa Rosenberger: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meule_à_grains#Critères_de_cho...
10 hrs
  -> Merci, Maïa.
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