capillarité
| 10:06 Dec 3, 2004 |
| French to English translations [Non-PRO] Bus/Financial - Construction / Civil Engineering | ||||
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| 5 +1 | capillarity |
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| 4 | thoroughness, pervasivenes |
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| 4 | ramifications/capillary structure |
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| 4 | capillary action, capillarity |
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| capillarité thoroughness, pervasivenes Explanation: thoroughness; pervasivenes |
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| The asker has declined this answer Comment: At my request, customer came back with further explanation of what she meant: la densité, couverture fine des marchés par les réseaux, couverture d'un marché dans ses plus fines ramifications. On that basis, I used "helps to boost the breadth and depth of market coverage by the networks" (or something like that - don't have my text in front of me!) | ||
12 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1| capillarité capillarity Explanation: a lovely word to describe a physical process, fits the context too. You can also use fluidity here if you want a two-way effect given that capillarity is more like a one way 'top-down' process. :-) |
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ramifications/capillary structure Explanation: I doubt if many people would understand the implications of "capillarity" in English |
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| capillarité capillary action, capillarity Explanation: = the phenomenon by which water or other liquids are carried by minute pores throughout the soil or upwards Reference: http://www.europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller |
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