« la nouvelle vague » considers a kind of movement from a new generation of people and techniques creating a new kind of movies. Therefore « Vague » is closer to « wave » like for example « someone is enjoying a wave of sympathy ».
In physics, and specifically in optics, we use the term ‘onde’ to characterise the form of movement. A sinusoid wave would be « onde sinusoïdale », the wave particule duality is called « dualité onde corpuscule », and a wavelength a « longueur d’onde ». -- Grégory > Le 17 mai 2021 à 12:03, Rod Beck <[email protected]> a écrit : > > And what about 'La Nouvelle Vague"? Like Hiroshima Mon Amour ... À bout de > souffle or the pedestrian Le Weekend ... > > 😃 > > > Roderick Beck > > Global Network Capacity Procurement > > United Cable Company > > www.unitedcablecompany.com<http://www.unitedcablecompany.com> > http://unitedcablecompany.com/video/ > New York City & Budapest > > [email protected] > > Budapest: 36-70-605-5144 > > NJ: 908-452-8183 > > > [cid:750aff5b-ab16-4e7c-b0da-f1697cce4e27] > > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of David > Ponzone <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 10:17 AM > To: Pierre Colombier <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRnOG] [BIZ] French Terminology - Wavelength > > « Vague » is also correct to describe the propagation of a virus :) > >> Le 17 mai 2021 à 10:09, Pierre Colombier via frnog <[email protected]> a écrit >> : >> >> "Wavelength" translates to "Longueur d'onde" >> >> >> "Ondes" is definitively the right term for "waves" like radio waves. >> >> "Vague" is for the sea waves. >> >> in other contexts and especially in technical and scientific language, >> "Vague" would first be undertood as "unclear"/"fuzzy" unsless it visually >> refers to the curve or progagation of sea waves. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------- >> Liste de diffusion du FRnOG >> http://www.frnog.org/ > > > --------------------------- > Liste de diffusion du FRnOG > http://www.frnog.org/ > > --------------------------- > Liste de diffusion du FRnOG > http://www.frnog.org/ --------------------------- Liste de diffusion du FRnOG http://www.frnog.org/
