documents enfants

English translation: child documents

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French term or phrase:documents enfants
English translation:child documents
Entered by: mportal

08:34 Mar 23, 2017
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals / validation document
French term or phrase: documents enfants
This refers to some sort of document involved in the control laboratory's analyses. The laboratory is described as being: '...chargé d'appliquer ce mode opératoire pour toute analyse d’éléments de conditionnement primaire et secondaire et de produits finis.'
mportal
Local time: 11:31
child documents
Explanation:
Definition:
"child document
A document that inherits values from another document (the parent document)."
http://www.expertglossary.com/email/definition/child-documen...

These terms are very common in English but much less so in French, and as has been suggested in the discussion they are probably calqued from the English equivalents.

"La vue Documents enfant sur la page Informations permet de gérer les documents enfant associés à un document parent spécifique."
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/fr/SSNW2F_4.5.1/...

I don't know whether the plural should be "documents enfant" or "documents enfants" in French. But in English, although "children documents" is certainly used, "child documents" is much more common (about 4-5 times as common in this sense on a Google search) and is grammatically more sound, because "child" is a noun used as a preposed adjective and these are normally invariable. So it should be singular here (compare "parent documents" vs *"parents documents").
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Charles Davis
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Local time: 12:31
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Thanks very much, Charles. Useful explanations.
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children documents


Explanation:
Indexing Parents and Children | Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide [2 ...
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/.../indexing-parent-child.ht...
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This parent ID serves two purposes: it creates the link between the parent and the child, and it ensures that the child document is stored on the same shard as ...

Reject children documents that don't have a parent · Issue #14218 ...
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/14218
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20 oct. 2015 - Some of our search code assumes that all children documents have a parent, yet we don't enforce this at index time. This assumption looks ...

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
child documents


Explanation:
Definition:
"child document
A document that inherits values from another document (the parent document)."
http://www.expertglossary.com/email/definition/child-documen...

These terms are very common in English but much less so in French, and as has been suggested in the discussion they are probably calqued from the English equivalents.

"La vue Documents enfant sur la page Informations permet de gérer les documents enfant associés à un document parent spécifique."
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/fr/SSNW2F_4.5.1/...

I don't know whether the plural should be "documents enfant" or "documents enfants" in French. But in English, although "children documents" is certainly used, "child documents" is much more common (about 4-5 times as common in this sense on a Google search) and is grammatically more sound, because "child" is a noun used as a preposed adjective and these are normally invariable. So it should be singular here (compare "parent documents" vs *"parents documents").

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 12:31
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Thanks very much, Charles. Useful explanations.

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  -> Thanks, Barbara
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