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rencontrent

English translation: dovetail with

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French term or phrase:rencontrent
English translation:dovetail with
Entered by: Claire Nolan

16:28 Jun 1, 2018
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
French term or phrase: rencontrent
A document talking about the biotechnology revolution. Am unsure what this part of the sentence is trying to say.

Parce qu’elles sont d’application générale, à de multiples secteurs, et rencontrent à la fois les progrès du traitement de l’information et de la miniaturisation, ces technologies ont un potentiel d’impact sur nos économies et nos sociétés dépassant probablement la révolution des technologies de l’information.
Alison Wedley
France
Local time: 06:26
dovetail with
Explanation:
"dovetail with progress in the fields of information processing and miniaturization"

(along the same lines as Philippa's answer)

or "mesh with"
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Claire Nolan
Local time: 00:26
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3bring together
AllegroTrans
3 +3dovetail with
Claire Nolan
4are subject to
Anita Planchon
4are at the intersection of
nweatherdon
4draw on
Francois Boye
3relate to
Philippa Smith
3face
liz askew


Discussion entries: 1





  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
relate to


Explanation:
...is one option. "is connected to", "ties into", etc. etc. are others.

I read it as saying the technologies link into those other, topical areas, thus increasing their impact.

Philippa Smith
Local time: 06:26
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 71
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
face


Explanation:
,,

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Note added at 19 mins (2018-06-01 16:48:26 GMT)
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or

are faced with

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/it-moral-values/
12 Jun 2012 - Information technology is now ubiquitous in the lives of people across the globe. .... the ethics of the process of developing emerging technologies (Moor 2008). .... of both the user and those providing access to the information .... Thus the designers of information technologies are constantly faced with ..



liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:26
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
dovetail with


Explanation:
"dovetail with progress in the fields of information processing and miniaturization"

(along the same lines as Philippa's answer)

or "mesh with"

Claire Nolan
Local time: 00:26
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 115

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yolanda Broad
3 mins
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agree  erwan-l
11 hrs
  -> Thanks
agree  writeaway
18 hrs
  -> Thanks
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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
bring together


Explanation:
These technologies bering together ... blah, blah and blah ...
Many other options. Thesaurus will unearth more suggestions.

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:26
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 321

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: Or combine.
16 mins
  -> Thank you Phil
agree  Odette Grille (X)
1 hr
  -> Thank you Odette
neutral  Francois Boye: rencontrer = to meet in English. That's the basic meaning.
4 hrs
  -> It's the BASIC meeting, but it doesn't make alot of sense in this text; "to bring together" is an extrapolation from "to meet"
agree  James A. Walsh
16 hrs
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
are subject to


Explanation:
Both of these things are having an impact on the technologies, so they are "subject to" these influences.

Anita Planchon
Australia
Local time: 14:26
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
are at the intersection of


Explanation:
biotechnologies being highly related to data processing methods (whether in the lab for analysis relating to chemicals and bio-molecules, or in the field to estimate optimal usage) and also miniaturization (maybe not quite the appropriate word because they are probably referring to stuff being small when talking about molecules, and not about, say, industrial production of microchips or nanomaterials enabling to have embedded softwares and analysis in cheaper and more portable tools.

In other words, I don't think it's about explicitly the act of 'bringing them together', or that it's quite saying that the general subject 'dovetails with' the two next subjects despite them all being quite related and that being easily stated for very similar contexts.

Instead, it's like saying that where 1) data processing methods and 2) miniaturization (or whatever) **meet/intersect** -- among the things which are found there, is also "ces technologies".

nweatherdon
Canada
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 55
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
draw on


Explanation:
Biotechnology is not self-centered. It is open (the idea of meeting that the verb 'rencontrer' expresses in French) to exploring and keeping abreast of other technologies in view to enlarging biotechnology's tools and approaches

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 00:26
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 102

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: In your "neutral" to my own answer you say this means "to meet". So how does "draw on" square with that?
1 day 22 hrs
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