French: sommetEnglish translation: coordinates of vertices 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | coordonnées des sommet | | English translation: | coordinates of vertices | | Entered by: | Bianca AH |
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Law/Patents - Mining & Minerals / Gems / mining | | French term or phrase: sommet | This is from a table giving the coordinates of the "summits". Termium gives a few options in the mining category:
apex
apical portion
uppermost part
upper part
TIA for your expertise
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| | Clarification request(s) and responseBianca AH: 8:46pm Mar 2, 2006: Not geographic - I think that for this context, it is geological (since it is used in a mining context).
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| peak
Explanation:
I am using the context provided in the adjoining questions to assume that this is actually about geographical "summits" - since they have coordinates, in which case peak could be the solution.
None of the words you found is Termium suggests a geographical entity to me.
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Note added at 28 mins (2006-03-02 19:36:46 GMT)
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Oops, "in Termium"!
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| might it be topographical, i.e. in surveying? (trig point, etc.)
Explanation:
sommet
1. point culminant (d'une montagne, d'une région) - summit, top
2. Point de rencontre de deux côtés s'un polygone. Point commun à plusieurs faces d'un polyèdre. - summit; vertex
3. Un des points d'une triangulation ou d'une polygonation - trig point; minor control point; traverse point.
[Dictionnaire multilingue de la Fédération Internationale des Géomètres]
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Note added at 2 hrs (2006-03-02 21:44:09 GMT)
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Given your questions about seconds and minutes, it's looking more and more like a land surveying term to me.
| Bourth
France
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