21:09 Jul 19, 2009 

I don't think anyone doubts for a minute the technical logic of what you're trying to say, over and over again.

All I'm trying to get across is that the use of the term 'volume' here may have a more specialist sense to it, which may need to be rendered differently in FR.

14:57 Jul 19, 2009 

of course I mean that AGM is smaller in volume but more powerful, which is important and more interesting in the automotive sector

14:49 Jul 19, 2009 

sorry, I'm having trouble understanding you...?

14:48 Jul 19, 2009 

exactly, technically speaking it is not difficult to understand that AGM, which is a technology using a small volume, is opposed to the term of "volume battery"
so We are not obliged here to know comprehensively how AGM operates.

14:46 Jul 19, 2009 

sorry there was a truncating in my previous sentence

14:43 Jul 19, 2009 

exactly, technically speaking it is not difficult to understand that AGM, which is a technology using a small volume. We are not obliged here to know comprehensively how.

14:32 Jul 19, 2009 

I still contend that this is not just a simple use of the word 'volume' to mean 'big', but is a specialist technical use of the word to indicate something specific about the actual battery technology itself, in the same register as 'AGM'.

14:31 Jul 19, 2009 

Dear Myrtrad, if you read my comment carefully, and understood it properly, you would have seen that I was not suggesting it was important to be a native-speaker in order to translate properly (though as has been discussed at length on his site, it is questionable whether it is a clever idea to translate into a target language in which one is not a native-speaker or has a native-level mastery...) — what I actually said was that I don't think the original writer would have expressed it that way had they been an ENS.

There are some ways of expressing things that just wouldn't be in the forefront of the mind of a native-speaker — in this case, the decidely eccentric use of 'volume' to qualify 'battery' instead of the correct adjective 'voluminous'; this is not to say it is necessarily wrong, or that it could never be expressed that way — simply that if the text was written by an ENS, this is probably a less likely intended meaning.

14:24 Jul 19, 2009 

it is not a matter of being native-speaker in english, whitch is not the only and sole qualification for translating from English.

14:14 Jul 19, 2009 

to gain volume in automotive is so important. And the asker explained the context: volume battery is opposed to the AGM, thing that french links corroborate

13:17 Jul 19, 2009 

Please do let's note that the present context is an automotive application, and nothing (ostensibly) to do with UPS or power convertors — which seems to be a misapprehension under which some people are labouring...

12:42 Jul 19, 2009 

I would doubt that, both from the way the term is constructed in EN, and just from the logic of things; yes, it is a more voluminous battery than an AGM; but I somehow doubt it would normally be expressed that way, at least not by a native-speaker.

I feel it is much more to do with the 'volume' occupied by the acid — i.e. and empty space, instead of being 'trapped' inside a foam mat.

12:27 Jul 19, 2009 

Maybe "volume" just means large or voluminous, as opposed to the "AGM" which might be smaller.