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# concentration — French to English

How French *concentration* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: concentration (31 218), concentrations (16 622). By style: everyday 20 · literary 2 · parliamentary 1 903 · legal and administrative 12 776 · UN documents 33 139.

## concentration

Used about 40 636 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 348 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 312 · UN documents ≈ 27 961). Forms: concentration, concentrations. Meaning: [concentration in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/concentration/).

- Il est mort dans un camp de **concentration**.
  He died in a **concentration** camp.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#10636469](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10636469) [\#10649071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10649071))

- Il résulte de ces **concentrations**-là une passivité qui, si elle était raisonnée, ressemblerait à la philosophie.
  There results from such **concentration** a passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble philosophy.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14984)

- Objet : **Concentrations** d'entreprises dans le secteur alimentaire
  Subject: **Concentrations** in the foodstuffs sector
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 345278)

- DBC annuelles - **CONCENTRATION** DE LA CONTREPARTIE
  CBD Annual - COUNTERPARTY **CONCENTRATION**
  ([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 4875581)

- **concentrations** annuelles moyennes en mg/l
  Mean annual **concentrations** in mg/l
  ([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 15477600)

## background

Used about 1 859 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 133 · UN documents ≈ 1 726). Meaning: [background in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/background/).

- Sac de prélèvement pour les **concentrations** de fond BK (facultatif; figure 3 seulement)
  BK **background** bag (optional; Figure 3 only)
  ([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 422967)

- BK Sac de collecte pour la mesure des **concentrations** ambiantes (optionnel; fig. 10 seulement)
  BK **Background** bag (optional; Figure 10 only)
  ([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 29840733)

- BK Sac de collecte pour la mesure des **concentrations** ambiantes (optionnel; fig. 10 seulement)
  BK **Background** bag (optional; figure 10 only)
  ([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 20929380)

- Le débit massique de particules peut faire l &apos; objet d &apos; une correction pour **concentrations** ambiantes dans l &apos; air de dilution comme suit:
  The particulate mass flow rate may be **background** corrected as follows:
  ([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 15593366)

- b) Les échantillons de gaz pour **concentrations** ambiantes doivent être analysés au plus tard 60 min après l &apos; achèvement de l &apos; essai de démarrage à chaud.
  (b) **Background** samples shall be analyzed no later than 60 minutes after the hot start test is complete.
  ([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 29817783)

## gas

Used about 478 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 133 · UN documents ≈ 345). Meaning: [gas in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/gas/).

- Le gaz naturel de certains gisements, du fait de leurs particularités géologiques, a une **concentration** en benzène supérieure à 0,1 % en poids, mais inférieure à 0,1 % en volume.
  Due to geological particularities, natural **gas** from certain reservoirs contains more than 0,1 % of benzene by weight but less than 0,1 % by volume.
  ([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 3673655)

- **Concentration** de gaz carbonique (CO2) dans les gaz de combustion
  Carbon dioxide (O2) in flue **gas** (%)
  ([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 17258485)

## measured

Used about 133 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 133).

- Après dilution dans le tunnel, la **concentration** du gaz témoin doit être mesurée.
  After dilution in the tunnel the tracer gas component shall be **measured**.
  ([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 5512785)

## test

Used about 133 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 133). Meaning: [test in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/test/).

- Les **concentrations** de la substance chimique d'essai sont espacées tel que décrit à l'Appendice 4.
  **Test** chemicals should be spaced as described in Appendix 4.
  ([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 3939931)

## More sentences

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

- Il a une faible capacité de **concentration**.
  He has a short attention span.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2264861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2264861) [\#9803498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9803498))

- Les jeunes enfants ont une faible capacité de **concentration**.
  Young children have short attention spans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4663394](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4663394) [\#9803499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9803499))

- Dans le monde anglophone du 19e siècle, on disait souvent que la masturbation menait à la perte de la mémoire et de la **concentration**.
  In the English world of the 19th century, it was often said that masturbation would lead to a loss of memory and attention.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by THURET and Grayster · checked, community translation · [\#401879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/401879) [\#3652342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3652342))

## Grammar

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