Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

calculateur pied de moyen

English translation:

processor

Added to glossary by martine paulin
Feb 1, 2008 08:14
16 yrs ago
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French term

calculateur pied de moyen

French to English Tech/Engineering Military / Defense trajectography camera
This is a txet relating to the design of a missile-tracking camera mounted on a mobile turret. I have never heard of this term, nor can I find any mention of it on the net... What is the "calculateur pied de moyen" in question, and what "moyens" are they refering to??? Any help would be appreciated...

Here is the text:

"En règle générale les moyens optiques sont reliés à un calculateur pied de moyen.
Son rôle consiste à :
- collecter l’ensemble des informations des différents moyens
- interdésigner les moyens entre eux
- designer les moyens d’après une information issue d’un calculateur central
- retransmettre des informations de position des moyens au calculateur central
- gérer les moyens connectés
- travailler à une cadence supérieure à celle du calculateur central (5 à 10 fois plus rapide)"
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I guess this must be a data acquisition and processor box, possibly with optical fibre inputs from the camera. "Processor" is suitably non-specific. A "pied a coulisse" is a micrometer or vernier gauge, so I think measurement is implied in "pied". "moyens" seem to be referring to data, rather than means or media.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thank you, Chris. Your answer fits the spirit of th document. I appreciate the help!"
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