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Tech/Engineering - Mechanics / Mech Engineering / Paint systems | | French term or phrase: cliché de référence | This is from specifications for painting aerial sections of pipework:
Here's the context:
"La détermination du degré du soin qui caractérise la qualité de la préparation de surface se fait par comparaison à des clichés de référence édités par Office National d'Homologation des Garanties de Peinture Industrielle et donnés à titre informatif en Annexe de la norme NF EN ISO 8501-1."
Sounds to me like some kind of template or comparison sample... |
|  Mark BossanyiKudoZ activityQuestions: 130 (none open) ( 8 closed without grading) Answers: 336
Bulgaria
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| | reference photographs / images | Explanation:
Unless there is any reason to think otherwise, cliché usually refers to a photographic print; in this case, perhaps reproduced in print, and for once, 'image' might be the best solution
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Note added at 2 hrs (2012-01-07 19:42:33 GMT)
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Just to clarify: I don't doubt for one instant that these would of course be originally photographic images; but since 'cliché' can have the meaning of an actual photographic print (tirage), I think it's important to acknowledge that in any published document, these are unlikely to still be produced (very expensively!) as tipped-in actual photographic prints.
Note that 'cliché' is also used for 'plate' in the more general printing sense of 'an illustration'. |
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Tony M
France
Local time: 20:50
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19 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +4 reference photographs / images
Explanation:
Unless there is any reason to think otherwise, cliché usually refers to a photographic print; in this case, perhaps reproduced in print, and for once, 'image' might be the best solution
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Note added at 2 hrs (2012-01-07 19:42:33 GMT)
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Just to clarify: I don't doubt for one instant that these would of course be originally photographic images; but since 'cliché' can have the meaning of an actual photographic print (tirage), I think it's important to acknowledge that in any published document, these are unlikely to still be produced (very expensively!) as tipped-in actual photographic prints.
Note that 'cliché' is also used for 'plate' in the more general printing sense of 'an illustration'.
| Tony M
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