Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
postulated threats
French translation:
menaces envisageables
English term
postulated threats
This is in a report about security by design for a nuclear plant. If anyone can help me with this phrase I would be grateful.
3 | menaces envisageables | florence metzger |
4 | menaces postulées | Maria Rodriguez Palma |
4 | menaces envisageables | Sanjay Kesharwani |
3 | les dangers inhérents | Platary (X) |
3 | menaces potentielles | GILLES MEUNIER |
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Proposed translations
menaces envisageables
les dangers inhérents
menaces postulées
Quant à "postulated" il semblerait qu'il est plus habituel de le trouver dans l'expression "postulated event" http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1290_web.pd...
En français on trouve "événement postulé" http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1126f_web.p...
Puisqu'il s'agit des documents de l'IAEA, qui normalise la terminologie dans le domaine, je trouve qu'il vaut mieux d'en suivre l'exemple et d'employer "menaces postulées".
menaces envisageables
& not the conjugated "postulée"of the French verb "postuler""postuler", which means :-
1. "demander un emploi" or "to demand an employment".
2. "avoir pour condition d'existence, de succès" or "to require".
Exemple- Ce travail postule de gros efforts de sa part.
Page 1952, Le Nouveau Petit Robert (Éd. juin 2000).
Security systems are designed in response to actual validated threats or postulated threats that may arise as adversary intentions develop.
http://cryptome.org/dodd5210-41p.htm
http://www.linguee.com/english-french/search?sourceoverride=none&source=auto&query=threat
menaces potentielles
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Note added at 9 hrs (2011-02-01 03:36:19 GMT)
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13 avr. 2010 ... Sécurité nucléaire : Les ambiguïtés de Washington. ... Elle écarte de son champ d'application les menaces potentielles, iranienne ou de ...
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Samuel P. Huntington - 2007 - Political Science - 402 pages
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Discussion
http://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/pub1133f_web.p... Regarde surtout la page 9.
C'est plutôt l'idée de faire des hypothèses, mais ce serait en peut plus que des "menaces hypothétiques", en effet "postulées" rend mieux l'idée d'accompli, de quelqu'un qui a dressée une liste ou un catalogue de menaces....
"menaces prévues (ou prévisibles)" serait alors peut-être approprié.