Jul 11, 2018 10:19
5 yrs ago
English term
United Kingdom
Lydie Abessira
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, Spanish to French, Hebrew to French
sprawling footprints
English to French
Tech/Engineering
Construction / Civil Engineering
Full sentence for context:
Labyrinthine layouts, underground carparks, sprawling footprints—these are just some of the factors that make it challenging to devise reliable communications networks.
Labyrinthine layouts, underground carparks, sprawling footprints—these are just some of the factors that make it challenging to devise reliable communications networks.
Proposed translations
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| 4 | prolifération des ouvrages urbains // empreinte accrue des ouvrages urbains |
Anne-Marie Laliberté (X)
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| 3 | périmètres très étendus |
polyglot45
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| 3 -1 | empreintes tentaculaires |
B D Finch
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Proposed translations
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prolifération des ouvrages urbains // empreinte accrue des ouvrages urbains
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empreintes tentaculaires
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... elle étale ses géoglyphes Nazca, tracés géants de la bêtise composés d'expansions urbaines, d'empreintes tentaculaires pour envahir les forêts, les mers, les ...
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This is clearly about "empreintes" in the context of town planning, as that is the scale at which they would be installing communications networks. The word "tentaculaire" is commonly used in this context to describe urban sprawl.
https://fr.glosbe.com › Dictionnaire français › français-français Dictionnaire
Stratégies d'aménagement urbain visant à maîtriser la croissance des villes, à limiter leur expansion tentaculaire et à réduire le nombre de personnes pauvres ...
https://www.universalis.fr/.../2-explosion-urbaine-et-ville-...
Explosion urbaine et ville tentaculaire. À partir des années 1940, la croissance de la « région la plus transparente » (Carlos Fuentes, 1958) s'emballe, alimentée ...
https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/vienne/la-tentaculaire-a...
"La tentaculaire aire urbaine de Poitiers et le désert rural"
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... elle étale ses géoglyphes Nazca, tracés géants de la bêtise composés d'expansions urbaines, d'empreintes tentaculaires pour envahir les forêts, les mers, les ...
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Note added at 6 hrs (2018-07-11 16:38:47 GMT)
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It's not difficult to find the above citation, but for those who can't, here's a shortcut: https://bit.ly/2JdmZCr
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Note added at 6 hrs (2018-07-11 16:48:00 GMT)
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This is clearly about "empreintes" in the context of town planning, as that is the scale at which they would be installing communications networks. The word "tentaculaire" is commonly used in this context to describe urban sprawl.
https://fr.glosbe.com › Dictionnaire français › français-français Dictionnaire
Stratégies d'aménagement urbain visant à maîtriser la croissance des villes, à limiter leur expansion tentaculaire et à réduire le nombre de personnes pauvres ...
https://www.universalis.fr/.../2-explosion-urbaine-et-ville-...
Explosion urbaine et ville tentaculaire. À partir des années 1940, la croissance de la « région la plus transparente » (Carlos Fuentes, 1958) s'emballe, alimentée ...
https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/vienne/la-tentaculaire-a...
"La tentaculaire aire urbaine de Poitiers et le désert rural"
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GILLES MEUNIER
: Votre site ne fonctionne pas et est peu crédible
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Whether you find a particular citation credible or not, is less to the point than whether the collocation works!
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Tony M
: Without knowing exactly what the writer had in mind, it's hard to be sure if 'tentaculaire' is really the idea here, or simply the sense of 'very spread out'; as for 'empreinte', in building terms 'emprise' sometimes = 'landtake', though poss. not here.
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As it's talking about establishing communications networks, and given the examples in the text, this is clearly about town planning problems complicating the installation of communications networks.
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polyglot45
Native in English
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French
Native in: English , French
Works in: English to French, French to English, German to French, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
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52
périmètres très étendus
devrait suffire
ou bien grandes superficies
ou bien grandes superficies
Discussion
For a start, this is not a literal 'footprint' — when we use that term in technical contexts these days, it basically means 'encombrance' (e.g. for a piece of IT equipment) — nothing to do with actual feet!
Secondly, 'sprawling' does not reall = 'dispersé' in a general sense; 'étalé' is indeed a lot closer, and indeed might possibly be usable here.
Sprawling = dispersées ici et là, immenses, très étalées