A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

secret, auT- in close , confinement, "incomuni-
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cado;"
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escilier , pri -ate staircase;
fonds s, secret-ser ice money.
secretaire, m., secretary; writing table;
d'ambassade, etc., secretary of an embassy,
etc.;
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d'Etat, secretary of state;
d'etat-major, ( Fr. a.) staff clerk (general service
clerk, U. S. A.);
-^-7 s d'etat-major et de recrutement, v. s. v. section;
du recrutement, ( Fr. a.) recruiting clerk.
secretaire-archiviste, m., ( Fr. a.) staff clerk (record
clerk).
secretariat, f., functions, duties, term of office,
place of office, of a secretary.
secteur, m., sector; (fort.) sector (of defense); (siege)
sector of attack; (mach.) slot link; double bar
link;
d'attaque, (siege) sector of attack;
conducteur, (art. ) guide piece of a star gauge ;
b, cremaillere de I'appareil de pointage, (art.)
toothed ele\ ating arc;
de defense, (fort.) sector of defense;
sans defense, (fort.) dead sector, undefended
line in front of a salient;
dente. (mach.) toothed, cogged, arc; (art.)
segmentalrack;
ft dents, v. dente,'
division en s, (mil.) the subdivision of a zone of
defense or of attaci, or of a wood or village to be
;
defended, into sections ;
d' exploration, (mil.) zone, or area, or sector,
co" ered by exploration;
d'explosion, (ball.) sector of explosion;
sans feu, v. sans defense;
filete, (art.) threaded sector of a breech plug;
glissant, (mach.) slide sweep (of an oscillating
engine);
de gouvernail, (nav.) steering quadrant;
gradue, graduated sector;
du levier de changement de marche, (mach.) reversing-gear
sector (of a locomotive);
lisse, (art.) smooth. sector, (blank), of a breech
plug;
plein, (art.) v. filete;
prive defeux, (fort.) dead space or sector; sector
not covered by fire;
de reglage (dufrein), (art.) adjusting arc (of a
brake);
de serrage (dufrein), (art.) compressor arc (of
a brake);
vide, (art.) v. lisse.
section, f., section; profile; (top., etc.) profile; (r. r.)
section; ( Fr. a.) subdi . ision of the French general
staff; name applied to certain units of noncombatants
and workmen employed in the
army (v. examples infra); shortened term for
section hors rang; one of the four subdivisions of
the convoi administratif, q. v.; (Fr. inf.) onefourth
of a company; (art.) section (two guns),
(platoon, U. S. Art.);
active, ( Fr. a.) active section (i. e. , belonging
to the active army ) ; section of the staff in charge
of matters touching the active army;
attclee, (mountain art.} section hitched;
de bateaux, (pont.) pontoon section;
du centre, (art.) center section (platoon, U. S.
Art.);
chefde , (art., inf.) chief of section (art., chief of
platoon, U. S. A.);
s de chasseurs forestiers, v. s. v. chasseur (organized
into companies, sections, and detachments,
according to numbers a\ ailable);
s de chemin defer de campagne, v. s techniques
d'ouvriers de chemins defer;
de chevalets, (pont.) trestle section;
s de commis et ouvriers militaires d'administration.
(Fr. a.) sections (25) of general service
clerks and skilled workmen assigned to army
corps, to Algiers, to Paris, and to Lyons;
en croix, (tech.) cruciform section;'
416 section
section de culees, (pont.) shore-bay .section;
dangereuse, (tech.) dangerous section;
demi , ( Fr. inf.) half section (twosquads);
s de deuxieme liine, (Fr. mil. teleg.) sections
working in rear of the army and connecting the
army with home;
s de douaniers, in France, sections of the custom-house
personnel (organized into battalions,
companies, and sections, to assist the army,'
second cateeory; and into companies and sections
for fortress warlare, first category);
de droite, (art.) right section (platoon. U. S.
Art.);
d'ecovlement, area of aperture for the passage
of liquids (as in the piston head of a recoil cylinder);
d'egale resistance, (tech.) section of equal resistance;
d'etapes et de chemin defer, ( Fr. a.) communication
and railway section, French military telegraph
ser\ ice;
de forge, (pont.) forge section;
deforteresse, ( Fr. a.) teleeraph party for connecting
places fortes with the army in the neighboring
territory;
tranche, v. groupe franc;
fusante, v. s. v.fusant;
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de gauche, (art.) left section (platoon U. S.
Art.);
guide, (art.) the section charged with getting
the range, ranging section;
horizontale; horizontal section; (fop.) contour;
s d'infirmiers militaires, (Fr. a.) sections (25)
of hospital orderlies assigned to army corps,
etc., and varying in strength according to the
needs of the ser* ice;
inter me.diaire, (top.) section lying between
equidistant sections;
longitudinale, longitudinal section;
mouille, (tech.) area of waterway;
de munition(s), (mil., art.) ammunition column;
de munitions d'artillerie, ( Fr. a.) artillery ammunition
column;
de munitions d'infanterie, (Fr. a.) infantry
ammunition column ;
de munitions mixte (Fr. a.) artillery and infantry
ammunition column of a mountain brigade;
de munitions des pares, (Fr.a.) reserve ammunition
column;
s non-guides, (art.) in ranging, sections regulating
the height of burst;
normale de la voie, (r. r.) standard gauge;
de pare, ( Fr. a.) one of the subdivisions 01 the
general park;
percutante, v. s. v. percvtant;
pivot, (art.) pivot section (platoon, U. S.
Art.);
la plus fatiguee, v. dangereuse;
portee, (mountain art.) section packed (i. e.,
guns on pack animals);
de premiere ligne, ( Fr. mil. teleg.) section operating
in the zone of operations of the army;
5 principals, (top.) sections determined by
equidistant planes;
de la queue, (hipp.) docking;
hors rang, ( Fr. inf. ) in each regiment, a special
group comprising the petit etat-major, the baud,
workmen, clerks, etc.;
de reserve, ( Fr. mil. teleg.) reserve section;
rompre par s, (mil.) to break oil by sections;
de secretaires d'etat-major et de recrutement,
( Fr. a.) sections of clerks for staff and recruiting
duty, assigned to army corps and to Paris, and
varying in strength according to the needs of
theser ice;
technique, (Fr. a.) experiment or investigating
committee attached to each comite d'arme
or de service (a sort of subcommittee of the comitt
technique; it investigates all questions, experimental
and other, new inventions, etc., respecting
the arm to which it belongs);