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à maille serrée

English translation: close-grid / detailed

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French term or phrase:à maille serrée
English translation:close-grid / detailed
Entered by: Lavinia Pirlog

22:06 Jun 11, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Mining & Minerals / Gems
French term or phrase: à maille serrée
La société s'engage à réaliser les travaux ci-après :
- Campagne d'echantillonnage à une maille de 50 x 50 mètres stream sédiment, sol et roche;
- Réalisation de puits et tranchées sur des cibles identifiées;
- Campagne de sondages de reconnaissance sur les cibles identifiées.
- Poursuite de la campagne de sondages à maille serrée, associés aux puits et tranchées;
Lavinia Pirlog
Romania
Local time: 20:27
close-mesh / detailed
Explanation:
Surveys based on a fine grid
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DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 18:27
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2tight pattern, close spacing
Bourth (X)
3 +2close-mesh / detailed
DLyons


  

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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
close-mesh / detailed


Explanation:
Surveys based on a fine grid

DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 18:27
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carolingua: grid is better than mesh. Mesh would be used for a physical object, such as a strainer. If you are refererring to a specific geographical area, then grid is the term.
51 mins
  -> Thanks Carolingua. Yes, "grid" is better!
agree  Dr Lofthouse
52 mins
  -> Thanks Dr Lofthouse.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
tight pattern, close spacing


Explanation:
Generally, the system of relatively short BOREHOLES SET WITH TIGHT PATTERN is more efficient as long bore- ...
www.crcnetbase.com/doi/pdf/10.1201/NOE0415374521.ch9

Status of Investigative or Remedial Action: DEQ injected Hydrogen Releasing Compound (HRC) into six BOREHOLES IN A TIGHT PATTERN in the ...
www.deq.state.or.us › Environmental Cleanup › ECSI

you would have to have a really TIGHT PATTERN OF DRILL HOLES, he adds. ... not only across the surface of the parcel, but also into the boreholes, ...
www.digitalmagazinetechnology.com/a/aggregatesmanager/.../p...

TIGHT PATTERN OF DRILL HOLES,” he adds. “The geophysics does a really nice job because you'll ... boreholes. Two boreholes had been drilled a few hundred ...
www.aggman.com/files/2009/06/agrm0409_opsill1.pdf

Due to the CLOSE SPACING OF THE BOREHOLES and the high seismic velocities of the rock strata surrounding the void, the first arrival time is very close ...
https://online.tugraz.at/tug_online/voe_main2.getVollText?.....

BOREHOLES AT CLOSE SPACING or spoon testing of pad footing excavations may be required to confirm that the appropriate quality shale has been encountered. ...
https://majorprojects.affinitylive.com/.../Appendix I - %20Geotechnical.pdf



Bourth (X)
Local time: 19:27
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 187
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  kashew: I think it's been up before on ProZ.
6 hrs
agree  B D Finch
8 hrs
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