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Tech/Engineering - Mechanics / Mech Engineering / production process - packaging and labelling | | French term or phrase: appreteurs | | lors d'une sterilisation terminale, les appreteurs verfient a la sortie de l'autoclave que chaque cabaret est bien identifie. |
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| | finishers | Explanation:
Based on the dictionary definition: "a craftsman who carries out the final tasks in a manufacturing process."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/finisher
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Here are some better references:
apprêteur, m. dresser, finisher.
"A French-English Dictionary for Chemists"
http://www.archive.org/stream/afrenchenglishd01pattgoog/afre...
finisher – apprêteur, apprêteuse
dresser – apprêteur, apprêteuse
Termium
http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?la...
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The French term appears to be borrowed from the world of textiles:
APPRÊTEUR, EUSE, subst.
A.− Subst. masc. et fém., TEXT. Ouvrier, (ouvrière) chargé(e) d'apprêter les étoffes :
1. Je voudrais vous montrer un apprêteur d'étoffes ou un fileur anglais à l'ouvrage : c'est un automate parfait, qui travaille tout le jour sans une minute de distraction...
Taine, Philos. de l'art, t. 1, 1865, p. 236.
http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/appreteur
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Explanation:
Based on the dictionary definition: "a craftsman who carries out the final tasks in a manufacturing process."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/finisher
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Note added at 1 day2 hrs (2011-07-15 11:02:36 GMT)
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Here are some better references:
apprêteur, m. dresser, finisher.
"A French-English Dictionary for Chemists"
http://www.archive.org/stream/afrenchenglishd01pattgoog/afre...
finisher – apprêteur, apprêteuse
dresser – apprêteur, apprêteuse
Termium
http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?la...
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Note added at 1 day2 hrs (2011-07-15 11:17:52 GMT)
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The French term appears to be borrowed from the world of textiles:
APPRÊTEUR, EUSE, subst.
A.− Subst. masc. et fém., TEXT. Ouvrier, (ouvrière) chargé(e) d'apprêter les étoffes :
1. Je voudrais vous montrer un apprêteur d'étoffes ou un fileur anglais à l'ouvrage : c'est un automate parfait, qui travaille tout le jour sans une minute de distraction...
Taine, Philos. de l'art, t. 1, 1865, p. 236.
http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/appreteur
;-)
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