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English translation: without forewarning sign / without forewarning indication


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French term or phrase:coureur
English translation:without forewarning sign / without forewarning indication
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16:03 Nov 15, 2009
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Tech/Engineering - Automotive / Cars & Trucks / focal retarder
French term or phrase: coureur
I'm translating a text about focal retarders and am trying to figure out how to translate "coureur" in the context of this screenshot:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz118/find_mobius/situati...

It's in the fourth column, second row.
Joshua Lang
Local time: 03:34
without forewarning sign / without forewarning indication
Explanation:
what is to be translated is in fact "sans signe avant-coureur" and the above.
An internet search with forewarning sign turns up some credible matches, as for instance the one beloy
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rcolin
Local time: 03:34
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4 +2without forewarning sign / without forewarning indicationrcolin
2cueAnthony Lines


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
cue


Explanation:
"Avant coureur" suggests prior warning and I am wondering if this is a reference to the cue which flashes just before the end of a reel to cue the projectionist into starting the next reel.

Anthony Lines
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  L.J.Wessel van Leeuwen: I would agree with you
27 mins
disagree  xxxBourth: chaîne cinématique has nothing to do with cinema! It's the drive train of some mechanism.
16 hrs
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
sans signe avant-coureurcoureur
without forewarning sign / without forewarning indication


Explanation:
what is to be translated is in fact "sans signe avant-coureur" and the above.
An internet search with forewarning sign turns up some credible matches, as for instance the one beloy
w


    Reference: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=abstract&id=171141&recNo=12&to...
rcolin
Local time: 03:34
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
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agree  Charles Hawtrey: 'without advance warning', or 'without warning' quite simply.
1 hr
agree  xxxBourth: Yup, when your bike chain snaps without abnormal flapping or noise beforehand.
15 hrs
  -> thanks so much for a very adequate example to explain the difference between without forewarning sign and just plain without forewaring
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