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English: downstream (here)

German translation: stromabwärtig







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English term or phrase:downstream (here)
German translation:stromabwärtig
Entered by:Rolf Bueskens
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9:53pm Jan 22, 2004Login or register (free) for more options.
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Tech/Engineering - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / general
English term or phrase: downstream (here)
I know it's stromabwaerts. My question is whether an adjective 'stromabwaertig' is a legitimate form.
Rolf Bueskens
Australia
Clarification request(s) and response
Hermann: 9:54pm Jan 22, 2004: here?? / where??? -
tectranslate: 10:34pm Jan 22, 2004: Why do you make us guess? What is the source text about? In which sentence does the "downstream" appear? -

stromabwärtig , vollkommen
Explanation:
hier bei LEO:
http://dict.leo.org/?search=downstream&searchLoc=-1&relink=o...
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Michael Hesselnberg
France
Note from asker to answerer
Vielen Dank fuer die Bestatigung.
Was die anderen Vorschlaege angeht: Ich finde diese Form auch nicht schoen. Sie ist aber in meinem Zusammenhang in einem Patent sehr nuetzlich. Und in Patenten geht es weniger um 'schoenen Stil'.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5nachgeschaltet / nachgelagert
SwissTell
4 +1Downstream
Christian Alkemper
3 +1stromabwärts gelegene
Hermann
5 -1stromabwärtig , vollkommen
Michael Hesselnberg


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Downstream

Explanation:
...if it's about xDSL, satellite communications, etc.

Christian Alkemper
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Horst2: in einem technischen Text ( vor allem wenn Telekomm. ) würde ich auch bei downstream bleiben
10 hrs
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
stromabwärts gelegene

Explanation:
wird - denke ich - eher verwendet

... Die basale Funktion dieser molekularen Schalter ist die Übermittlung von Signalen
an stromabwärts gelegene Elemente der Signaltransduktionskaskade. ...


Hermann
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 18

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Sabina La Habana Reyes: only like this
5 mins
  -> Gracias
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
stromabwärtig , vollkommen

Explanation:
hier bei LEO:
http://dict.leo.org/?search=downstream&searchLoc=-1&relink=o...

Michael Hesselnberg
France
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
Vielen Dank fuer die Bestatigung.
Was die anderen Vorschlaege angeht: Ich finde diese Form auch nicht schoen. Sie ist aber in meinem Zusammenhang in einem Patent sehr nuetzlich. Und in Patenten geht es weniger um 'schoenen Stil'.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral Dierk Widmann: Eigentlich finde ich es nicht legitim - "abwärtig" klingt eher nach abgewendet. Duden hat die Form auch nicht.
9 mins

disagree David Moore: Ist ja abwertig, was diese Wörterbücher uns manchmals erzählen....
11 hrs
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
nachgeschaltet / nachgelagert

Explanation:
if you are talking technical/engineering (with too little context given). See also a considerable number of Proz.Glossary entries which in no way go with "stromabwärts" as the usual expression.


    Reference: http://Proz.Glossary
SwissTell
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 3

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Geneviève von Levetzow: Na... endlich;)
29 mins
  -> merci, Geneviève

agree Herbert Fipke: Oft passt auch einfach "hinter", z.B. downstream cat sensor= Sensor hinter dem KAT. Stromabwärtig ist widerwärtig!
1 hr
  -> danke, Herbert

agree Brandis
5 hrs

agree EdithK
8 hrs

agree David Moore: Hear, hear!!
11 hrs
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