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vestigial tail fins

French translation: ailette de queue rudimentaire


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English term or phrase:vestigial tail fins
French translation:ailette de queue rudimentaire
Entered by: Johannes Gleim
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14:59 Feb 27, 2009
English to French translations [PRO]
Science - Automotive / Cars & Trucks / Description de Ferrari 250 GT Europa Berlinetta Speciale
English term or phrase: vestigial tail fins
"Unusual rear buttresses merge into vestigial tail fins"
Quel est le terme technique pour vestigial tail fins ?
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Françoise Pertat
France
Local time: 17:09
ailette de queue rudimentaire
Explanation:
Tail Fin
Noun
1. A stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane.
2. One of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile.
3. The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates.
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/tail fi...
(Schwanzflosse en Allemand pour véhicules)

Vestigial
Adjective
1. (biology) not fully developed in mature animals; "rudimentary wings".
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/vestigi...

Beförderung auf dem Luftweg [COM] Vollständiger Eintrag
DE Schwanzflosse
Heckflosse
EN tail fin
FR ailette de queue
arête de queue
http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do

tail fin
EN: tail fin
FR: arête de queue, ailette de queue
http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/theme/TV/EN/FR/T/1.html
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Local time: 17:09
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Summary of answers provided
4vestiges d'ailerons de queueDaniel Gontrand
4ailette de queue rudimentaire
Johannes Gleim
3profil lateral dissymétrique (de la partie arrière)
Radu DANAILA


  

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profil lateral dissymétrique (de la partie arrière)


Explanation:
GDT (http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index102...

tail fin = structure de la dérive (aéronautique)
vestigial = bande laterale residuelle (dissymétrique)

Je suppose que les termes empruntés de l'aéronautique et des télécommunicaitons ont été utilisés pour donner plus de couleur à une présentation journalistique.

Radu DANAILA
Romania
Local time: 18:09
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ailette de queue rudimentaire


Explanation:
Tail Fin
Noun
1. A stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane.
2. One of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile.
3. The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates.
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/tail fi...
(Schwanzflosse en Allemand pour véhicules)

Vestigial
Adjective
1. (biology) not fully developed in mature animals; "rudimentary wings".
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/vestigi...

Beförderung auf dem Luftweg [COM] Vollständiger Eintrag
DE Schwanzflosse
Heckflosse
EN tail fin
FR ailette de queue
arête de queue
http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do

tail fin
EN: tail fin
FR: arête de queue, ailette de queue
http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/theme/TV/EN/FR/T/1.html

Johannes Gleim
Local time: 17:09
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vestiges d'ailerons de queue


Explanation:
des ailerons de queue dont il ne resterait que des vestiges (dernière phase avant leur abandon définitif)

Daniel Gontrand
France
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Mar 4, 2009 - Changes made by Johannes Gleim:
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