Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
format 16/5e
English translation:
16:5 format
Added to glossary by
Gill Zschunke
Jun 3, 2010 07:04
14 yrs ago
French term
France
format 16/5e
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Aerospace / Aviation / Space
information display screen
Hello, if anyone could shed light on the dimension "16/5e" it would be much appreciated. The context is a wide screen TFT panel with 16/5e format. I'm correcting an English text and the French is not available. I've searched everywhere but don't know how to translate this. Could it be 16/5 format?
Many thanks for any help.
Many thanks for any help.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | 16:5 format |
Tony M
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Change log
Jun 3, 2010 08:25: Stéphanie Soudais (X) changed "Term asked" from "panel with 16/5e format" to "format 16/5e "
Proposed translations
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16:5 format
Yes, I would say thtis would be the best way to express it; you might refer to it as 'aspect ratio' instead of format, but that seems to have slightly gone out of fashion these days.
I suppose you ought to just consider the possibility that this might be some kid of a typo / scanno for 16/9e — certainly in an OCR situation, a 9 and a 5 would be relatively easily confusable, and even in typng, using a FR numeric pad, 5 and 9 are diagonally adjacent keys, so it would only take a slip of the finger...
Although such things are of course possible (and you may be able to judge likelihood from your wider context of course), do bear in mind that unusual, custom-sized displays are pretty expensive to produce, so there'd have to be a very good reason for departing from one of the 'standard' formats; what rings warning bells with me is that this format starts with 16/ , just like 16/9 — the co-incidence is worrying.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2010-06-03 11:30:24 GMT)
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By the way, I assume you had of course realized that the 'e' stands for '-èmes' — i.e. 16/5èmes, or 16/5ths; orally, we speak of 16/9e as 'seize-neuvièmes'
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Note added at 5 hrs (2010-06-03 12:15:46 GMT)
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You're most welcome, Gill!
I suppose you ought to just consider the possibility that this might be some kid of a typo / scanno for 16/9e — certainly in an OCR situation, a 9 and a 5 would be relatively easily confusable, and even in typng, using a FR numeric pad, 5 and 9 are diagonally adjacent keys, so it would only take a slip of the finger...
Although such things are of course possible (and you may be able to judge likelihood from your wider context of course), do bear in mind that unusual, custom-sized displays are pretty expensive to produce, so there'd have to be a very good reason for departing from one of the 'standard' formats; what rings warning bells with me is that this format starts with 16/ , just like 16/9 — the co-incidence is worrying.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2010-06-03 11:30:24 GMT)
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By the way, I assume you had of course realized that the 'e' stands for '-èmes' — i.e. 16/5èmes, or 16/5ths; orally, we speak of 16/9e as 'seize-neuvièmes'
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Note added at 5 hrs (2010-06-03 12:15:46 GMT)
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You're most welcome, Gill!
Note from asker:
| Many thanks (once again), Tony, for the answer and helpful pointers. |
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Comment: "Many thanks to all, especially Tony, for this helpful answer."
Discussion
In the cinema, we are more used to converting to a ratio with n:1, so we have 1.85:1 = standard cinema widescreen, 2.2:1 = 'scope, etc. So this would work out as 3.2:1, which is more like Technirama!
Of course, merely from this aspect ratio, you can't work out the actual dmensions, unless you have at least either the height or width to work it out from.