Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Jul 27, 2004 19:07
20 yrs ago
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French term
lunette
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Construction / Civil Engineering
water treatment
This appears to be a type of level. In my context (setting up a municipal water treatment unit), it is being used to ensure that a water trough is level. I have no other description unfortunately. Does someone have an idea of what kind of level this could be? Thanks.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 | transit |
transbbd (X)
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| 4 +3 | Tilting Level (Engineer's Level) |
Graham macLachlan
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| 5 +1 | one of several types of optical instruments |
Bourth (X)
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| 4 +1 | sight |
Allan Jeffs
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transit
This is the common name in AE for what others are referring to as a tilting level or engineer's level.
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Comment: "Thanks to everyone for your help. From what I can gather, a transit and a tilting level are two different items (see also http://www.reference-wordsmith.com/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?exact=1&terms=level), and I can't say for sure which one the author intended, but I will use transit in my context only because it sounds less specific somehow. Thanks again."
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27 mins
sight
I have the following references to 'lunette' in my good civil engineering glossary:
Lunette d'alésage Boring back-rest
Lunette de traçage horizontal Horizontal scribing sight
Lunette de visée Aligning sight
See also the following net reference to a "LINE OF SIGHT TOOL":
... 3D Analysis—Autodesk OnSite Desktop users have access to civil engineering analysis
tools ... fill volume between two surfaces, a line-of-sight tool to determine ...
south-east-europe.autodesk.com/ adsk/servlet/item?siteID=2189735&id=2419366 - 22k
Lunette d'alésage Boring back-rest
Lunette de traçage horizontal Horizontal scribing sight
Lunette de visée Aligning sight
See also the following net reference to a "LINE OF SIGHT TOOL":
... 3D Analysis—Autodesk OnSite Desktop users have access to civil engineering analysis
tools ... fill volume between two surfaces, a line-of-sight tool to determine ...
south-east-europe.autodesk.com/ adsk/servlet/item?siteID=2189735&id=2419366 - 22k
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32 mins
Tilting Level (Engineer's Level)
apparently the wild nk1 is a "niveau à lunette" in French, make what you will...
Tilting Level (Engineer's Level) NK1. The Wild NK1: ... appelation of the device, Tilting
Level NK1 (Engineer`s Level). manufacturer, Wild Heerburg AG CH-9435 Heerburg. ...
www.vermessungsseiten.de/instrumente/wild_nk1e.html
Tilting Level (Engineer's Level) NK1. The Wild NK1: ... appelation of the device, Tilting
Level NK1 (Engineer`s Level). manufacturer, Wild Heerburg AG CH-9435 Heerburg. ...
www.vermessungsseiten.de/instrumente/wild_nk1e.html
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Michel A.
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| agree |
Vicky Papaprodromou
2 mins
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| agree |
Bourth (X)
: Certainly possible; possibly too specific.
7 mins
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+1
38 mins
one of several types of optical instruments
Under "lunette", Dicobat gives only:
lunette ... 3. [TOPOGR.] La lunette de visée stadimétrique est une lunette optique dont le réticule est traversé par des fils parallèles, verticaux et horizontaux, dont l'espcaement est constant. V. Stadimètre
Stadimètre - Instrument optique de mesure topographique des distances pour les levés de plans: il est composé d'une lunette sur pied au travers de laquelle on vise une mire parlante, ou stadia; le réticule de la lunette comporte 2 fils parallèles que l'on fait coïncider avec 2 graduations de la mire.
[Dicobat]
The Dict. multilingue de la Fédération Internationale des Géomètres defines "lunette stadimétrique" (a variant of which is the "lunette anallatique") in much the same way and gives the English as "stadia measuring telescope, stadimetric telescope".
And "anallactic telescope" for "lunette anallactique".
However, I suspect it is really something much simpler, i.e. the good old "level", a sighting instrument (telescope) fitted with a spirit level or two that is used to determine level planes. A/c to Blake's Civil Engineering Reference Book, it comes in three flavours: dumpy level, tilting level, and automatic level, the details of which (on several pages) I shall not go into!
The "Géomètres" book gives "levels" of different kinds as "niveau à lunette fixe, à lunette réversible", etc.
lunette ... 3. [TOPOGR.] La lunette de visée stadimétrique est une lunette optique dont le réticule est traversé par des fils parallèles, verticaux et horizontaux, dont l'espcaement est constant. V. Stadimètre
Stadimètre - Instrument optique de mesure topographique des distances pour les levés de plans: il est composé d'une lunette sur pied au travers de laquelle on vise une mire parlante, ou stadia; le réticule de la lunette comporte 2 fils parallèles que l'on fait coïncider avec 2 graduations de la mire.
[Dicobat]
The Dict. multilingue de la Fédération Internationale des Géomètres defines "lunette stadimétrique" (a variant of which is the "lunette anallatique") in much the same way and gives the English as "stadia measuring telescope, stadimetric telescope".
And "anallactic telescope" for "lunette anallactique".
However, I suspect it is really something much simpler, i.e. the good old "level", a sighting instrument (telescope) fitted with a spirit level or two that is used to determine level planes. A/c to Blake's Civil Engineering Reference Book, it comes in three flavours: dumpy level, tilting level, and automatic level, the details of which (on several pages) I shall not go into!
The "Géomètres" book gives "levels" of different kinds as "niveau à lunette fixe, à lunette réversible", etc.
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