Mar 21, 2021 08:36
3 yrs ago
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French term
confondue
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Engineering (general)
display systems/in a patent
Context:
La direction horizontale X-X’ s’étend entre l’aéronef 10 et la zone d’atterrissage 18 dans un plan horizontal. Ainsi, comme visible sur la figure 3, la direction horizontale X-X’ est confondue avec la direction longitudinale lorsque l’aéronef 10 est orienté vers la zone d’atterrissage 18.
Not sure whether confused is OK in this context.
Suggestions would be appreciated.
TIA Chris.
La direction horizontale X-X’ s’étend entre l’aéronef 10 et la zone d’atterrissage 18 dans un plan horizontal. Ainsi, comme visible sur la figure 3, la direction horizontale X-X’ est confondue avec la direction longitudinale lorsque l’aéronef 10 est orienté vers la zone d’atterrissage 18.
Not sure whether confused is OK in this context.
Suggestions would be appreciated.
TIA Chris.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +6 | coincides with |
Cyril Tollari
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| 4 +1 | aligns with |
Daniel Frisano
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| 4 | concurrent, convergent or converging |
Johannes Gleim
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| 2 +1 | merges (is merged with) |
SafeTex
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Change log
Mar 21, 2021 11:33: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "display systems" to "display systems/in a patent"
Proposed translations
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Cyril Tollari
France
France
Native in French
Works in field
France
Reliable & Experienced Engineer, EN>FR
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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8
Selected
coincides with
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Thomas Miles
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SafeTex
: A possibility😊
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Daryo
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Andrew Paul Kennett
: Cyril Tollari, as you say Coincides with. Confused is misleading
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Kim Metzger
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Cilian O'Tuama
: Sprachgefühl ist etwas Schönes. //Oops, englisch - a certain feeling for and mastery of a language are useful qualities. The concurrent/convergent suggestions are somewhat foreign.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you."
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45 mins
merges (is merged with)
This was my first thought although "coincides with" (Cyril) is a good contender too.
+1
2 hrs
Daniel Frisano
Italy
Italy
Specializes in field
Italy
100% human translation, always
Native in: Italian
Works in: English to Italian, French to Italian, German to Italian, and 14 more.
Related KudoZ points
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2
aligns with
I am also perfectly fine with "coincides with". That's the idea: the aircraft is horizontal, so its longitudinal and the horizontal are the same direction.
Cyril should suggest it as an answer!
Cyril should suggest it as an answer!
2 days 4 hrs
Johannes Gleim
Specializes in field
40 years Engineer, 20 years translations
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English, French to German, and 6 more.
Related KudoZ points
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35
concurrent, convergent or converging
Another approach:
Thus, as seen in Figure 3, the horizontal direction X-X' is concurrent to the longitudinal direction when the aircraft 10 is facing the landing area 18
or
Thus, as seen in Figure 3, the horizontal direction X-X' is converging to the longitudinal direction when the aircraft 10 is facing the landing area 18
Definition of concurrent
1 : operating or occurring at the same time
2a : running parallel
b : convergent specifically : meeting or intersecting in a point
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concurrent
physics
A concurrent force is one of two or more forces that are in effect at the same time.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/concurre...
The rays become more convergent as they leave the lens.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/converge...
Concurrent means 1.) occurring at the same time, 2.) approaching the same point, 3.) having equal authority, 4.) harmonious. Concurrent is an adjective, related words are concurrently and concurrency.
https://grammarist.com/usage/concurrent-vs-consecutive/
Definition of convergent
1 : tending to move toward one point or to approach each other : converging convergent lines
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convergent
Here, one can see that the sequence is converging to the limit 0 as n increases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_of_a_sequence
The path formed by connecting the partial sums of a conditionally convergent series is infinitely long. The power series of the logarithm is conditionally convergent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_series
Thus, as seen in Figure 3, the horizontal direction X-X' is concurrent to the longitudinal direction when the aircraft 10 is facing the landing area 18
or
Thus, as seen in Figure 3, the horizontal direction X-X' is converging to the longitudinal direction when the aircraft 10 is facing the landing area 18
Definition of concurrent
1 : operating or occurring at the same time
2a : running parallel
b : convergent specifically : meeting or intersecting in a point
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concurrent
physics
A concurrent force is one of two or more forces that are in effect at the same time.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/concurre...
The rays become more convergent as they leave the lens.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/converge...
Concurrent means 1.) occurring at the same time, 2.) approaching the same point, 3.) having equal authority, 4.) harmonious. Concurrent is an adjective, related words are concurrently and concurrency.
https://grammarist.com/usage/concurrent-vs-consecutive/
Definition of convergent
1 : tending to move toward one point or to approach each other : converging convergent lines
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convergent
Here, one can see that the sequence is converging to the limit 0 as n increases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_of_a_sequence
The path formed by connecting the partial sums of a conditionally convergent series is infinitely long. The power series of the logarithm is conditionally convergent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_series
Discussion
What about "X is coincident with Y" ?
Examples from the Ouèbbhe :
"Two lines that lie on top of one another are called
coincident lines".
"these two lines are coincident, only you can't see them
both, because they are on top of each other"
"Two lines are coincident means lines are meeting at
infinite many points"
"Whether the system has a solution or not depends on whether
the two lines are coincident (that is, the same line). "
I'm not even going to give this a "neutral" as it is a valid and worthy attempt and I have my own suggestion up but I do think that there is a difference between "merge", or "coincides with" and "align" in that if two things are aligned, they are parallel but could be some distance apart.
And my reading on this is that there is no distance separating them so I kind of lean towards my suggestion or Cyril's but I'm not trying to hard sell them so feel free to say "wrong" to me.
Nothing to do with confusion as such