Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

pignons d'entraînement

English translation:

drive gears

Added to glossary by Maria Constant (X)
Aug 11, 2005 12:05
19 yrs ago
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French term

pignons d'entraînement

French to English Tech/Engineering Mechanics / Mech Engineering machine instruction manual
In a bottle inverter instruction manual
Graisser les pignons d'entraînment du retourneur en démontant les deux cartes de protection.

Are they wheels ?
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 drive gears
3 +1 drive pinions / sprockets

Proposed translations

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French term (edited): pignons d'entra�nement
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drive gears

Whilst JCEC's 'pinions' is certainly far from wrong, I just wanted to add that in more everyday tech. speak, 'gear' is usually a perfectly adequate alternative.

As far as 'sprocket' is concerned, I have slightly more doubts, inasmuch as there is already a perfectly good word for sprocket available in FR, so why use a different one? However, only the wider context will perhaps tell you wheteher this is a sprocket driving a chain or toothed belt, or a gear driving another gear (etc.) --- there IS a difference!
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agree zaphod
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Thanks, Zaphod!
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French term (edited): pignons d'entra�nement

drive pinions / sprockets

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Peer comment(s):

agree Istvan Nagy
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