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# devices — English to French

How English *devices* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [devices in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/devices/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: devices (46 117). By style: everyday 16 · literary 2 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 536 · legal and administrative 13 735 · UN documents 31 827.

## dispositifs

Used about 32 397 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 212 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 301 · UN documents ≈ 21 881).

- Most of, if not all, electronic and mechanical **devices** on airplanes are redundant in order to prevent failures.
  La plupart, si ce n'est la totalité, des **dispositifs** électroniques et mécaniques d'un avion sont redondants afin d’éviter les pannes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#1422408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1422408) [\#1422241](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1422241))

- Measuring **devices** containing mercury (vote)
  **Dispositifs** de mesure contenant du mercure (vote)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 877213)

- the number and position of the **devices**;
  nombre et emplacement des **dispositifs**;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5509682)

- Regulation No. 3 (Retro-reflecting **devices**)
  Règlement No 3 (**Dispositifs** catadioptriques)
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9863795)

- People that can't hear or speak are deaf-mute. Various **devices** currently exist that can help to correct this problem.
  Les personnes qui ne peuvent ni entendre ni parler sont sourds-muets. Il existe, aujourd'hui, divers **dispositifs** permettant de corriger ce problème.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Mar1L and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#5651310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5651310) [\#5653843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5653843))

## appareils

Used about 2 284 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 89 · legal and administrative ≈ 858 · UN documents ≈ 1 326).

- I'm sick of all these **devices**.
  J'en ai assez de tous ces **appareils**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6577498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6577498) [\#6579184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6579184))

- The creation of highly integrated spintronic **devices** is one example of this.
  La création d’**appareils** spintroniques hautement intégrés en est un exemple.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 859928)

- Parts of apparatus for physical deposition by sputtering on liquid crystal **devices** (LCD) substrates, n.e.s.
  Parties d'**appareils** à dépôt physique par pulvérisation cathodique sur des substrats pour affichage à cristaux liquides, n.d.a.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 228189)

- Mercury is also used for consumer products such as batteries, dental amalgam, measuring **devices**, lamps, and electrical and electronic **devices**.
  Le mercure est également utilisé pour des biens de consommation comme les piles et accumulateurs, les amalgames dentaires, les instruments de mesure, les lampes et **appareils** électriques et électroniques.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25182140)

- You'll learn to use these **devices**.
  Tu apprendras à utiliser ces **appareils**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#10974148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10974148) [\#10974197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10974197))

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Abacuses are counting **devices**.
  L'abaque est un outil à calculer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5978230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5978230) [\#5977550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5977550))

- Our folk hold that a warrior should need naught but his weapons, and that mail or shield are but cowardly **devices**.
  Notre peuple soutient qu'un guerrier ne devrait nécessiter rien d'autre que ses armes et qu'une cotte de maille ou un bouclier ne sont que de lâches artifices.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cangarejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12427003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12427003) [\#12466926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12466926))

- I intend to explore the current trends in the evolution of mass communication **devices**.
  J’ai l’intention d’explorer les tendances actuelles de l’évolution des outils de communication de masse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Serveto and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#2409943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2409943) [\#2410067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2410067))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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