Mar 12, 2010 21:22
14 yrs ago
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German term
Genauigkeit
German to English
Tech/Engineering
Medical: Instruments
Die Genauigkeit liegt bei ± 15% oder 2 g/m2 h (jeweils der höchste Wert).
Context: evaporator device measuring water evaporation from skin surface.
I am looking for the technical term. I know how to translate it to lay English :)
Precision level???
Context: evaporator device measuring water evaporation from skin surface.
I am looking for the technical term. I know how to translate it to lay English :)
Precision level???
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | degree of precision |
Tom Bodine
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| 4 +5 | precision; (alternative) accuracy |
TechLawDC
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| 3 +5 | accuracy |
jccantrell
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Proposed translations
4 mins
Tom Bodine
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Experienced, Accurate, Reasonable
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, Russian to English, Spanish to English
Related KudoZ points
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8
Selected
degree of precision
Basically, I agree with your formulation, but this sounds a bit better to my ear.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks, Tom."
+5
12 mins
precision; (alternative) accuracy
(No helping words are needed -- the entire definition is supplied in the rest of the sentence.)
(Precision is better; because accuracy implies true accuracy, corresponding to facts not in evidence.)
(Precision is better; because accuracy implies true accuracy, corresponding to facts not in evidence.)
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Johanna Timm, PhD
: measuring precision
2 mins
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| agree |
Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
: accuracy - when listed with other specifications
28 mins
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| agree |
Marie Jammers
2 hrs
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| agree |
Brita Fiess (X)
12 hrs
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| agree |
Helen Shiner
: precision on its own is perfect, the rest just flummery
16 hrs
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+5
14 mins
jccantrell
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Was nicht ist, kann noch werden.
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: German to English
Related KudoZ points
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11
accuracy
My guess is that you are describing the meter, so from the link we have:
" ... accuracy (how close the result is to the true value) and precision (= reproducibility; i.e. how close are a series of measurements on the same sample to each other)"
In my experience, the precision of a meter is given in digits of the display.
" ... accuracy (how close the result is to the true value) and precision (= reproducibility; i.e. how close are a series of measurements on the same sample to each other)"
In my experience, the precision of a meter is given in digits of the display.
Reference:
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Bernhard Sulzer
: with precision I would rather associate the precision degree of the instrument; but this seems to be about accuracy of the measurements.
6 hrs
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| agree |
Sven Petersson
12 hrs
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| agree |
Rolf Keiser
: with Bernhard
12 hrs
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| agree |
Sarah Hamilton
12 hrs
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| agree |
Nicole Backhaus
3 days 5 hrs
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Discussion
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/precision : "the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably". (Nowhere to be seen are the words "degree of" or "level of".)
Thanks for your inputs. Just for fun, look at this reference which differentiates b/w the level of accuracy and degree of precision...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1469501