A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

angle 14 angle
angle d'abaissement au but, (ball.) angle of sight
(target below horizontal plane through muzzle);
angle made with horizontal plane, by line of
sight, by line from muzzle to object;
d'arrivee, (ball.) angle of incidence, angle
made with surface of ground, by tangent to
trajectory at point of impact;
du bond, (art.) grazing angle;
de chute, (ball.) angle of fall, angle made with
horizontal by tangent to trajectory at point of
fall; (esp.sm.a.) angle of line of sight and tangent
at point of fall;
de couche, (sm. a.) angle between axis of barrel
and line from point of application of recoil to
shoulder, drop;
dc depart, (ball.) angle of departure, of pro:
jection;
dc depression, (ball.) angle of depression,
angle of sight (target below plane of muzzle);
de derivation, (ball.) angle of drift measured
from the plane of fire, with the piece as origin;
de deviation initiale, (ball.) name proposed for
angle of jump;
d'ecart horizontal, (ball.) horizontal projection
of angle of jump; angle of lateral jump, of initial
lateral deviation;
d'ecart initial, (ball.) angle of jump, jump;
d'egalite d'actions, (torp.) angle made with
horizontal by axis of torepdo (Whitehead) when
piston and pendulum neutralize each other;
d''elevation du but, angle of sight (target above
plane of muzzle);
d'incidence, (ball.) angle under which a projectile,
fired in no matter what fashion, strikes
no matter what surface; angle of incidence;
d'incidence de I'affut. (art.) angle of incidence
of the trail, angle made by trail-axis with surface
of ground;
limite, (art.) limiting angle of fire (depression
and elevation);
de mire, (ball.) angle between line of sight
and axis of gun, sight angle of elevation (called
angle of elevation by some English writers,
angle of tangent elevation by others; it becomes
angle of elevation for American writers
only when line of sight is horizontal, as this
angle in United States is measured from horizontal
to axis of piece);
de mire artificiel, (ball.) artificial angle of
sight;
de mire naturel, (ball.) natural angle of sight;
naturel, angle between line to object and horizontal;
ogival, (art.) one-half the vertical angle of
tangent cone to vertex of a projectile;
de pointage, (ball.) angle of elevation (rare);
de plus grande portee, (ball.) angle corresponding
to the greatest range;
de projection, (ball.) angle of projection, of
departure;
de recul, (art.) angle of recoil; angle made
with horizontal by line from center of trunnions
to point of contact of trail with ground;
de rettvement, (ball.) angle of jump, jump
(frequently relevement .simply);
- du ricochet, (art.) angle under which a projectile
bounds after ricdchetting;
de site, (ball.) angle of elevation or of depression
of the target, measured from the horizontal,
angle of sight, inclination of line of sight
to horizontal (in sm. a. practice this angle
may be, and frequently is, measured from horizontal
to line connecting muzzle and target);
de soulevement, (art.) angle of lift, limiting
inclination of axis of piece, beyond which carriage
would tend to overturn in first part of
recoil;
de tete, (ball.) v. d 'elevation du but;
angle de tir, (ball.) angle between axis of gun and
horizontal, quadrant-angle of elevation (or depression);
this is the angle of elevation in the
United States. In the absence of expressed
conditions, angle de tir and angle de mire are
taken as synonymous, they are rigorously
equivalent only when line of sight is horizontal;
de tir negatif, angle of depression (quadrant);
de tir positif, angle of elevation (quadrant);
de vibration, (ball.) German name of jump;
II. Fortification:
du bastion, bastion-angle;
de courtine, curtain angle (more frequently
called de flanc) ;
de
defense, angle of defense;
diminue, diminished angle;
d'epaule, shoulder angle;
exterieur, externe, salient angle;
de flanc, angle of the flank;
flanquant, flanking angle;
flanque. flanked, salient angle;
-du fosse, diminished angle;
de la gorge, gorge angle;
mart, dead angle, dead space;
perdu, dead angle, dead space;
de polygone, angle made by two adjacent
sides of polygon to be '
fortified;
rentrant, reentering, reentrant angle;
saillant, salient angle;
sortant, salient angle;
de tenaille, tenaille, angle made by intersection
of lines of defense;
vif, salient angle;
III. Technical and miscellaneous:
abattre les s, to edge, chamfer;
abordable, angle within which a dirigible
ballon may make any point;
aigu, acute angle.
d'avance, (steam) angular advance, angle of
advance;
de calage, (elec.) lead of the brushes (of a dynamo);
(steam) angle between eccentric radius
and crank, 90 plus angular advance;
de coupe, (of cutting tools) cutting angle;
de deviation, (mach.) leading off angle of a
belt);
diedre, diedral angle;
droit, right angle.
emousser les s, (mil.) to break off corners of a
square, so as to get fire in all directions;
d'enroulement, (mach.) angle of contact (of a
belt);
d'equerre, right angle;
faire , to elbow;
defrottement, angle of friction;
d'incidence, angle of relief (of a cutting tool);
moyen, (surv.) angle corrected for spherical
excess; corrected angle, so that when added to
the two others of a triangle their sum shall be
180.
oblique, oblique angle; bevel-rule, miter
square;
observer un , to take an angle, to observe an
angle;
-obtus, obtuse angle;
optique, visual angle;
de pente, (top.) angle of slope, gradient;
plan, plane angle;
rapporter un -, to protract an angle;
rapporteur, (inst.) protractor;
releve, observed angle;
relcverun , to take, measure, observe, an an-
gle;
en retour, (surv.) back-reading;
de rupture, angle of rupture;
spherique, spherical angle;
de tournant, locking-angle (of vehicles);
de traction, angle of traction (vehicles);
tranchant, angle between faces (of cutting
tools), cutting angle;
triedre, triedral angle;
visuel, visual angle.