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182 months ago

neo (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

English > French

Subject:

Technical / Engineering

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

deportment

Context:

* Deportment is the distribution of an element though various mineral phases present in th

Keywords:

* Deportment is the distribution of an element though various mineral phases present in the sample.

 

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182 months ago

  See profile wrote:

tenues (comportements) en fonction des phases

182 months ago

Edith Marie Seidner  See profile wrote:

Comportement

My comment:

Deportment is the distribution of an element though(through?)...
Le comportement est la distribution d'un élément à travers les différentes phases minérales ....

Le comportement mécanique, le comportement physique, le comportement des matériaux...

My references:

http://eost.u-strasbg.fr/IPGS/Eq_GeophyExp/theme1_GE.php
http://www.enset-oran.dz/sbeidco/Papers/148_Paper.pdf

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

182 months ago

  See profile wrote:

I don't think so. I can't find any example of "comportement" meaning "distribution". In my book, it means "behavior"

182 months ago

Edith Marie Seidner  See profile wrote:

The deportment or "the way to be" of an element /the way of how it is distributed through... Comportement is used of course for a person, but also regularly in the fields of minerals, physic...

182 months ago

Edith Marie Seidner  See profile wrote:

I don't think so. I can't find any example of "comportement" meaning "distribution". In my book, it means "behavior"

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182 months ago

Edith Marie Seidner  See profile wrote:

distribution

My comment:

It seems that deportment and distribution are quasi synonymous in the texts I've seen. I don't think that there are 2 such synonyms in French.

182 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

distribution

My comment:

It seems that deportment and distribution are quasi synonymous in the texts I've seen. I don't think that there are 2 such synonyms in French.