Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
Définition de l\'écran
English translation:
screen definition
French term
United Kingdom
Définition de l'écran
I'm translating some specs for a mobile phone which include Définition de l'écran: 2340 x 1080 px, and Résolution de l'écran: 437 ppp. Ihave put screen definition, but according to my dictionary définition = resolution, hence my confusion. Would welcome elucidation from any techies out there. Thanks!
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Tony M
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| 4 | screen resolution |
Ronald van Riet
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| 4 | Display resolution / Pixel density |
Daryo
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Proposed translations
screen definition
By the way, for your second term, I'd use just 'resolution' and avoid repeating the 'screen' — it is redundant (unless there is a specific opposition with say 'camera...'), and will help make clearer the technical justification for the 2 different terms.
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chris collister
: and of course ppp is pixels par pouce (ppi) so I guess it's a 5" screen
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screen resolution
| Thanks! I would have put that, but as I said there is also "résolution de l'écran" in the text. |
Display resolution / Pixel density
Définition de l'écran = Display resolution = how finely the screen is divided in pixels
Résolution de l'écran = Pixel density = how many pixels are packed in one unit of length
The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by different factors in cathode ray tube (CRT) displays, flat-panel displays (including liquid-crystal displays) and projection displays using fixed picture-element (pixel) arrays.
It is usually quoted as width × height, with the units in pixels: for example, 1024 × 768 means the width is 1024 pixels and the height is 768 pixels. This example would normally be spoken as "ten twenty-four by seven sixty-eight" or "ten twenty-four by seven six eight".
One use of the term display resolution applies to fixed-pixel-array displays such as plasma display panels (PDP), liquid-crystal displays (LCD), Digital Light Processing (DLP) projectors, OLED displays, and similar technologies, and is simply the physical number of columns and rows of pixels creating the display (e.g. 1920 × 1080). A consequence of having a fixed-grid display is that, for multi-format video inputs, all displays need a "scaling engine" (a digital video processor that includes a memory array) to match the incoming picture format to the display.
For device displays such as phones, tablets, monitors and televisions, the use of the word resolution as defined above is a misnomer, though common. The term display resolution is usually used to mean pixel dimensions, the number of pixels in each dimension (e.g. 1920 × 1080), which does not tell anything about the pixel density of the display on which the image is actually formed: resolution properly refers to the pixel density, the number of pixels per unit distance or area, not total number of pixels. In digital measurement, the display resolution would be given in pixels per inch (PPI). In analog measurement, if the screen is 10 inches high, then the horizontal resolution is measured across a square 10 inches wide. [1] For television standards, this is typically stated as "lines horizontal resolution, per picture height";[2] for example, analog NTSC TVs can typically display about 340 lines of "per picture height" horizontal resolution from over-the-air sources, which is equivalent to about 440 total lines of actual picture information from left edge to right edge.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Ve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_display_standard
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Note added at 10 hrs (2019-12-04 18:50:09 GMT)
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Display resolution: 2340 x 1080 pixels
Pixel density: 437 pixels per inch
I would leave the unit names expanded.
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SafeTex
: Seems like the right answer
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GILLES MEUNIER
: display = affichage. Votre 2e traduction correspond à Densité de pixels, c'est surtraduit.....
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Discussion
are certainly technically correct, and "pixel density" is self explanatory.
Maybe looking at several catalogue descriptions of other phones will give a better idea of what terms are usually used for describing a phone screen.