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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

moyens aérauliques

English translation:

pneumatic means

Added to glossary by Louisa Tchaicha
Mar 18, 2014 22:38
10 yrs ago
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French term

moyens aérauliques

French to English Tech/Engineering Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng valorisation de déchets
Hello,

"Pour l'étape de séparation, on utilise des moyens de séparation par exemple des moyens de séparation granulométrique, des moyens aérauliques..."


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Discussion

Mario Freitas Mar 22, 2014:
@ Chris, Ok, you can build on it, for sure. Something like air-powered devices...
chris collister Mar 22, 2014:
@Mario Not really. We don't have to translate one word by another word. As French has taught us, why use one word when five will do? And do we think that peasant farmers (or industrial separators for that matter) separate the wheat from the chaff "pneumatically"? We still have "air" to play with.
Mario Freitas Mar 21, 2014:
In that case, you only have "pneumatic" left.
chris collister Mar 21, 2014:
I can't agree that this particular neologism is acceptable in mainstream English. As yet at least, its use simply isn't sufficiently widespread, and the translation will have to paraphrase or use a workaround. If I encountered this word in an English text, I would know that it was a translation from the French.
Mario Freitas Mar 20, 2014:
Aeraulic If pneumatic is not adequate, why not use aeraulic? Neologism is acceptable (if that's the case).
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aeraulic
Mukesh Bhatt Mar 20, 2014:
neologism possibly Wiktionary and Wikiwords refer back to ProZ.com!
Suggested etymology is that word is modelled on the form "hydraulic".

Main use appears to be in websites which are Francophone (.be, .fr, .ro, .ch, Canada), and linked to air-conditioning and refrigeration.

ScilLab (part of MatLab software) appears to determine it as the use of pressurised air for applications.

Pneumatic is more general apparently, using any gas, including air, my recollection from engineering days.

see also reference comments below.
Mario Freitas Mar 20, 2014:
If it uses compressed air Or air is the main agent, it's "pneumatic".
chris collister Mar 19, 2014:
There is no equivalent word in EN for "aeraulic", though perhaps there should be. I believe in this context it simply means using air, as in separating wheat from chaff, for example, where a light breeze allows the heavier wheat to be separated from the lighter chaff, since each follows a different trajectory and therefore ends up in a different place.
Jonathan MacKerron Mar 18, 2014:
aeraulic/hydraulic methods maybe

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