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# dimension — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: dimension (26 279), dimensions (28 303). By style: everyday 16 · literary 1 · parliamentary 5 345 · legal and administrative 6 597 · UN documents 42 623.

## dimensions

Used about 40 654 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 398 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 047 · UN documents ≈ 30 191). Forms: dimension, dimensions.

- Tom comes from another **dimension**.
  Tom vient d'une autre **dimension**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#2908803](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2908803) [\#2909066](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2909066))

- I knew of celebrated caverns from the descriptions of travellers, but had never heard of any of such **dimensions** as this.
  Je connaissais bien, par les récits des voyageurs, certaines cavernes célèbres, mais aucune ne présentait de telles **dimensions**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2581)

- It has an economic **dimension**.
  Il a une **dimension** économique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 728971)

- **Dimensions** per test group
  **Dimensions** par groupe d'essai
  ([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 5579845)

- MAXIMUM **DIMENSIONS** OF VESSELS
  **DIMENSIONS** MAXIMALES DES BATEAUX
  ([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 4339381)

## mm

Used about 719 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 275 · UN documents ≈ 444).

- This **dimension** can vary between 43 and 49 mm
  Cette cote varie entre 43 et 49 **mm**.
  ([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 5431569)

- The minimum **dimension** of the sides shall be 250 mm.
  Les côtés doivent mesurer au moins 250 **mm**.
  ([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 29679438)

- \* This **dimension** can vary between 43 and 49 mm
  \* Cette cote varie entre 43 et 49 **mm**
  ([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 5559632)

- and a **dimension** of 150 x 140 x 120 mm or more, but not more than 335 x 430 x 179 mm
  et mesurant 150 x 140 x 120 **mm** ou plus, mais pas plus de 335 x 430 x 179 mm
  ([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 3764679)

- Monofilament with any cross-sectional **dimension** 愦灭;gt; 1 mm; rods; sticks and profile shapes of polymers of vinyl chloride (including surface worked but not otherwise worked)
  Monofils (coupe transversale 愦灭;gt; 1 **mm**), joncs, bâtons, profilés en polymères du chlorure de vinyle
  ([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 2085260)

## More sentences

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

- Madam President, with regard to the humanitarian **dimension** of this disaster, I fully concur with Mr Van den Berg.
  Madame la Présidente, concernant les aspects humanitaires de cette catastrophe, je puis me ranger sans réserves aux propos de M. Van den Berg.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 237027)

- The first **dimension**, the cross-border **dimension**, was also highlighted by the Commissioner.
  Le premier défi, le défi transfrontalier, a également été souligné par le commissaire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 737020)

- However, there is also a strategic **dimension** to Galileo.
  Mais Galileo est également une question stratégique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1574850)

## Grammar

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