Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

flache

English translation:

depression

Added to glossary by Rodrigo Trompiz
Oct 25, 2007 10:20
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French term

flache

French to English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering
From a road building project in Africa:

Les moellons employés en parement seront choisis et dégrossis de manière à ne présenter ni saillie ni flache de plus de 3 cm par rapport au plan de l'ouvrage.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 depression

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depression

Usually set of "negative out of plane-ness" in road (a depression where water will pool), but "parement" here suggests it is in a wall.

"Déflachage", for example (sometimes they spell it "flash"), is "filling in of (incipient) potholes".
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