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Telecom(munications) / telecommunications | | French term or phrase: aval | Traitements particuliers:Dans le cadre du formatage externe vers le SI aval SIO, des traitements particuliers doivent être réalisés.
I believe aval is translated as downstream but I'm having problems fitting it in so that it makes sense. |
|   Enza LongoKudoZ activityQuestions: 940 (none open) ( 11 closed without grading) Answers: 1420
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| | downstream [maybe] | Explanation:
it literally means that BUT it could be a reference to a TIMELINE...and you have to be careful with upstream/downstream in English. Sometimes the use in French does not apply in English even though the word exists in some technical/corporate enviornments
Before PHASE x or something like that OR
Pre-X
one would have to have more context |
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Jane Lamb-Ruiz
| Grading comment Thanks Jane - I finally did translate it as downstream because of the context, but I agree that it's now always the case.
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11 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +1 downstream [maybe]
Explanation:
it literally means that BUT it could be a reference to a TIMELINE...and you have to be careful with upstream/downstream in English. Sometimes the use in French does not apply in English even though the word exists in some technical/corporate enviornments
Before PHASE x or something like that OR
Pre-X
one would have to have more context
| Jane Lamb-Ruiz
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| | Grading comment | Thanks Jane - I finally did translate it as downstream because of the context, but I agree that it's now always the case. |
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