espace de lavage

08:56 Feb 17, 2012 

Thanks Tony...your explanation seems perfect.

08:47 Feb 17, 2012 

I was doing two documents extremely similar to Asker's one only a few months back, so this all feels a bit like déjà vu to me now!

It also helps, of course, to have worked a bit with fibre optics... ;-)

08:27 Feb 17, 2012 

Takes an expert eye, but washing would certainly be odd. Apart from the expected Goggle references to a fragrant herb, there are a few relevant ones here: http://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/lovage.htm...

08:12 Feb 17, 2012 

I think you'll find it is in fact 'lovage', a specialist term not found in ordinary dictionaires, and which would almost certainly have been corrected to 'lavage' by any standard spell-checker (or even typist!)

This is to do with leaving 'coiling space' so that the fibre optical cables don't have to be bent with too sharp a radius, which might break them.

It would certainly help to know just what type of 'modules' are involved here.

08:01 Feb 17, 2012 

As usual more context will help. This could be translated several ways, depending on context.