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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

linéaire de filet

English translation:

linear meters of netting

Added to glossary by SafeTex
Dec 31, 2013 08:33
10 yrs ago
French term

linéaire de filet

French to English Other Zoology Ornithology
Hello

I have four sentences in all including the one below with this phrase

La longueur de filet utilisée pour capturer les oiseaux étant différente d’un site à l’autre et d’une séance à une autre, ces données ont été standardisées afin de simuler une pression de capture semblable pour 1000m*** linéaires de filets***.

What I think is confusing me is why they don't speak of m2 of netting. If 'linéaire' means long and the netting is 1000m long, surely the height of the netting plays a part too.

I've been on Internet too but just can't work out what 'linéaire' is meant to add exactly to the word 'filet'

Thanks
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 linear meters of netting length
2 +2 net length
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Discussion

Philippe Faucon Dec 31, 2013:
I totally agree with Ms Finch, independently of whatever other info could be added, the "linéaires" just mean it is a length unit and not a surface.
SafeTex (asker) Dec 31, 2013:
To all I'm beginning to wonder if a linear meter is NOT the same as a meter bought in the shop

Maybe the netting has to be slightly 'pleated' in the field so that it turns itself inwards around the poor bird that has flown into it : so a linear meter would mean 'a meter of deployed netting in the field'

Thanks especially to DL Lyons for the possible answer on why height is not given. It would be nice if a bird expert could confirm.

I see that a 'finch' has visited the question too (sorry but couldn't resist that one)

Happy New Year
B D Finch Dec 31, 2013:
Incorrect parsing: 1000m linéaires/ de filets. It simply means linear metres, rather than square metres.

Proposed translations

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linear meters of netting length

.. assuming that the width is standard.
as they are only talking about length.

"La longueur de filet utilisée pour capturer les oiseaux étant différente d’un site à l’autre ...etc."
Peer comment(s):
agree philgoddard
7 hrs
Thanks!
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks everyone. I used 'linear meters' at the end although the word 'linear' seems pretty superfluous as 1m = 1 linear meter by all accounts"
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net length

The "pressure" here I think refers to the number of birds per unit time being captured. As you say, that is area rather than length dependent.
But I think they may be using a specific type of net, so that the height of their net is constant. And then they standardise to a completely notional 1000 m length (real mist nets would be a fraction of that length).
Peer comment(s):
agree kashew
7 hrs
Thanks kashew.
agree Virginie Mair : I am just remembering that in supermarkets for instance, they also talk of "mètres linéaires" (de rayons etc.). http://www.olivierdauvers.fr/tag/rayons/
1 day 21 hrs
Merci Virginie.
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