| French | English |
| ajouter des produits antidétonants à l'essence sous forme de combinaisons plomb-alcoyle | adding lead alkyl compounds to petrol as anti-knock devices |
| articles solides contenant des déchets dangereux sous forme liquide | solid items containing encased hazardous waste liquids |
| aération sous pression | compressed-air aeration |
| aération sous pression | bubble aeration |
| brûlage de nettoiement du sous bois | premarking burn |
| cendre sous chaudière | boiler dust |
| cendres sous chaudière | boiler dust |
| Centre international pour le développement des cultures sous-utilisées | International Centre for Underutilised Crops |
| chasse d'eau sous pression pour rigole périphérique de surverse | extending crest flushing system by water under pressure |
| chauffage par électrodes consommables sous vide | heating by electrodes consumable in vacuum |
| cheminement dans le sol ou le sous-sol | percolation through the ground or subsoil |
| composants et sous-ensembles | components and sub-assemblies |
| dispositif mobile de curage du trop-plein par eau sous pression | extending crest flushing system by water under pressure |
| drainage du sous-sol | subsoil drainage The removal of surplus water from within the soil by natural or artificial means, such as by drains placed below the surface to lower the water table below the root zone |
| drainage du sous-sol | subsoil drainage |
| décapage par traitement à l'eau sous haute pression | clean strip using high-pressure water blasting |
| déchets de matières plastiques sous forme solide | solid plastic wastes |
| déchets sous forme de poudre, boue, poussière | wastes in the form of powder, sludge, dust |
| déchets sous forme de poussières et de poudres | dusty and powdery waste |
| déversion sous-marine | underwater outlet |
| déversoir sous-marin | underwater outlet |
| déversoir sous-marin | underwater outlet Point of water disposal located below the sea surface |
| eau saline sous-jacente | underlying salt water |
| enfouissement dans le sous-sol marin | sea-bed insertion |
| exploitation des ressources marines et sous-marines | exploitation of marine and submarine resources |
| fermeture sous surveillance | storage with surveillance |
| filtre par le sous-sol | soil filter |
| flottation sous pression | dissolved air flotation |
| formation rocheuse sous pression géostatique | geopressured rock formation |
| herbier sous marin | sea grass bed |
| installation de flottation sous pression | equipment for a relief flotation plant |
| le plomb extrait sous forme de dithizonate est repris en solution nitrique | the lead extract in the form of dithizonate is recovered in a nitric solution |
| lit fluidisé sous pression | pressurised fluidised bed |
| lixiviation acide sous pression | acidic leaching under pressure |
| matière organique sous forme de particules | particulate organic matter |
| mise sous sequestre | sequestration 1. A legal term referring generally to the act of valuable property being taken into custody by an agent of the court and locked away for safekeeping, usually to prevent the property from being disposed of or abused before a dispute over its ownership can be resolved. 2. The taking of someone's property, voluntarily (by deposit) or involuntarily (by seizure), by court officers or into the possession of a third party, awaiting the outcome of a trial in which ownership of that property is at issue |
| mise sous écran protecteur | screening |
| mise sous écran protecteur | screening The reduction of the electric field about a nucleus by the space charge of the surrounding electrons |
| morphologie sous-marine | submarine morphology That aspect of geological oceanography which deals with the relief features of the ocean floor and with the forces that modify them |
| morphologie sous-marine | submarine morphology |
| nettoyage du sous bois par le feu | accessibility burn |
| permis sous-loué | sublet permit |
| polluant sous forme particulaire | particulate pollutant |
| population sous-privilégiée | underprivileged people A segment of the population that does not have access to the rights or benefits granted to the rest of society, often because of low economic or social status |
| population sous-privilégiée | underprivileged people |
| prairie sous-marine | seagrass |
| programme d'action sous-régional | Subregional Action Programme |
| pré sous-marin | sea grass bed Seaweeds communities formed by green, brown and red macroscopic algae and by sea phanerogams such as Posidonia oceanica and Zostera noltii, etc. |
| pré sous-marin | sea grass bed |
| reconfiguration du système sous l'aspect de la sécurité | retrofitting |
| rejet en sous sol | underground disposal |
| rejet en sous sol | underground disposal The discharge, dumping or emission of wastes below the surface of the soil |
| remplissage sous le niveau du liquide | submerged loading |
| revalorisation des sous-produits | recycling of by-products |
| richesses du sous-sol | ground resources |
| roche sous-jacente | outcropping rock |
| roche sous-jacente | underground |
| sol à sous-sol compact | plasticity limit |
| sol à sous-sol compact | plasticity |
| soufre sous forme solide | sulphur in solid form |
| sous-axe | subpriority |
| sous-bois | underbrush |
| sous-bois | undergrowth |
| sous-bois | shrub |
| Sous-comité des océans et des zones côtières | Subcommittee on Oceans and Coastal Areas |
| Sous-comité des ressources en eau | Subcommittee on Fresh Water |
| Sous-comité des ressources en eau | Subcommittee on Water Resources |
| Sous-commission de l'environnement | Sub-Committee on the Environment |
| Sous-Directeur exécutif du Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement | Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme |
| sous emballage | packaged |
| sous-espèce | subspecies |
| sous-estimation agricole | agricultural undervaluation |
| sous-estimation agricole | agricultural undervaluation The underrating or diminishing in value of agricultural or farming goods and services |
| sous-installation avec référentiel de chaleur | heat benchmark sub-installation |
| sous-installation avec référentiel de combustibles | fuel benchmark sub-installation |
| sous-installation avec référentiel de produit | product benchmark sub-installation |
| sous-installation avec émissions de procédé | process emissions sub-installation |
| Sous-manuel sur l'accroissement | Submanual on Increment |
| sous-produit | by-product A product from a manufacturing process that is not considered the principal material |
| sous-produit d'incinération | incineration by-product |
| sous-produit industriel | industrial by-product |
| sous sol | subsoil |
| sous-sol | subsoil Soil underlying surface soil, devoid of plant roots |
| sous-sol | subsurface |
| sous-sol de la mer | seabed subsoil |
| sous-sol marin | seabed subsoil |
| spécimen de musée sous inclusion | embedded museum specimen |
| séchage sous pression | sludge pressing |
| séparation sous fort champ magnétique | high magnetic separation |
| taillis sous futaie | coppice with standards A traditional system of woodland management whereby timber trees are grown above a coppiced woodland. It is used in particular as a method of exploiting oakwoods, in which all the trees except a rather open network of tall, well-formed oaks - the standards at about fifty per hectare - are felled, leaving plenty of space for hazels and other underwood to grow and be coppiced at intervals of ten to fifteen years |
| zone sensible sous l'angle de l'environnement | environmentally sensitive area |
| zone sous tension | area under stress Areas that are flooded by rising number of tourists or other kinds of pressure and suffer from insufficient or inappropriate planning and management. Damage frequently arises from a lack of understanding or interest of the value of such sites (environnementale) |
| zone sous tension environnementale | area under stress |
| équilibre hydrique en surface et en sous-sol | surface and groundwater balance |
| équipement sous pression | pressure equipment Equipment operating with an internal pressure greater than atmospheric |
| îles Sous-le-Vent | Leeward Islands |