dispositif
English
Alternative forms
- (sociology): dispositive
Etymology
Borrowed from French dispositif.
Noun
dispositif (plural dispositifs)
- (international law) A part of a document that communicates the decisions taken by some organization or nation on a particular issue.
- Thereafter the court ruled unanimously in paragraph 2c of its dispositif that threat or use of force by means of nuclear weapons is contrary to the UN charter and is unlawful.
- (sociology) According to Michel Foucault, the aggregate of institutional, physical and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures that enhance and maintain the exercise of power within society.
See also
- operative part, substance, purport, terms expressing the notion for court decisions under common law
French
Etymology
From Latin dispositum + -if.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.po.zi.tif/
Audio (file)
Noun
dispositif m (plural dispositifs)
- arrangement, lay-out
- measures, expedient, means to an end
- device, machine, system
- un dispositif informatique ― a computing device
- Un certain nombre de personnes m'ont dit qu'un dispositif est un ensemble d'appareils, mais selon des dictionnaires, c'est un ensemble de dispositifs qui constituent un appareil.
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- operation, plan
- (law) dispositif
- 2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde:
- En censurant l’essentiel de la loi dite « Avia », jeudi 18 juin, le Conseil constitutionnel a mis à bas un dispositif adopté en mai, destiné à imposer aux géants du numérique de retirer les incitations à la haine, à la violence et au terrorisme, ainsi que les injures à caractère raciste ou sexiste et les images pornographiques représentant des mineurs.
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Derived terms
- dispositif intra-utérin
Further reading
- “dispositif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.