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Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng / electrical engineering | | English term or phrase: allow...to pass | A capacitor will in effect allow alternating currents to pass, but not direct currents.
Would "Ein Kondensator lässt in der Tat Wechselströme durch sich hindurchfließen, ganz im Gegensatz zu Gleichströmen." be a reasonable translation or has anyone a better proposal? |
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| | .. leitet .. | Explanation:
"Effektiv leitet ein Kondesator Wechselstrom, aber keinen Gleichstrom."
Electricity is (technically correct) conducted, it does not really flow.
flow = fliessen is a popular way of expressing it. The above suggestion is correct. This is how I would translate it.
HTH |
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34 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 Im Prinzip lässt ein Kondensator nur Wechsel- aber keinen Gleichstrom hindurch
Explanation:
Leave out the 'fließen' part. You just don't use it in electrical enginnering parlance in this context.
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10 hrs confidence: .. leitet ..
Explanation:
"Effektiv leitet ein Kondesator Wechselstrom, aber keinen Gleichstrom."
Electricity is (technically correct) conducted, it does not really flow.
flow = fliessen is a popular way of expressing it. The above suggestion is correct. This is how I would translate it.
HTH
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