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faits saillants (this context)

English translation: significant events/facts

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French term or phrase:faits saillants (this context)
English translation:significant events/facts
Entered by: Drmanu49

14:24 Dec 16, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Science - Medical: Pharmaceuticals
French term or phrase: faits saillants (this context)
I realize that this has been asked before, but it was a finance context. Salient facts seems very odd to me in this context. Am I over-thinking this???

La zone et les équipements sont-ils vides de tous les composants non nécessaires au lot à produire ?Si NOK à l’une des questions ci-dessus, documenter la raison dans les faits saillants.
Laura Miller
United States
Local time: 06:09
significant events/facts
Explanation:
IMO
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Drmanu49
France
Local time: 12:09
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Thank you!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4key findings / highlights / summary
Sheri P
4 +1significant events/facts
Drmanu49
3 +1key points
Tony M


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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
significant events/facts


Explanation:
IMO

Drmanu49
France
Local time: 12:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 1131
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Chakib Roula
6 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
key findings / highlights / summary


Explanation:
It sounds to me as though "faits saillants" is the title of a section in a document or a report where the "raison" is to be noted. I'm guessing "NOK" is a typo for "NON."

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Note added at 48 mins (2014-12-16 15:12:54 GMT)
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"Key points" is another possibility.

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Note added at 1 hr (2014-12-16 15:42:38 GMT)
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Des renseignements supplémentaires sur des régions particulières se trouvent dans les Faits saillants en tableaux...
http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-312...

Sheri P
United States
Local time: 06:09
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: I should have Googled it before I posted my answer. But some references wouldn't go amiss :-)
21 mins
  -> Thank you, Phil. The refs. tend to skew Canadian, including the one I just posted.//Thanks for 'defending' my answer :-)
agree  Tony M: Only with your added note @ 48 minutes (which I'm sorry, I hadn't noticed before I posted my own identical suggestion!)
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Tony :-)
agree  Chakib Roula: Highlights ;the question had already been asked but the other way.
5 hrs
  -> Thank you, Chakib!
agree  Simon Charass
10 hrs
  -> Thank you, Simon!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
faits saillants
key points


Explanation:
Like Phil G., I'd say this is a section of the document, and as such, you probably need to give it a title that would be used normally in EN — something like my suggestion here.

BTW, 'NOK' means 'not OK' — it is the opposite of 'OK', just as in EN we sometimes use 'go / no-go'. Curiously, I've come across it more often in FR than I ever have in EN (though it certainly does exist!)

Tony M
France
Local time: 12:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 76

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Chakib Roula
3 hrs
  -> Choukrane, Chakib!
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