Puissance de coude

15:41 Jul 3, 2008
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng / Navigation aids
French term or phrase: Puissance de coude
Context
In a specification for a Glide path / Localizer system:
"Les types de réseaux d’antennes bi-fréquences proposés devront avoir des caractéristiques telles que en terme de puissance de coude, celle-ci sera inférieure à 10 µA au delà de 15° pour un secteur total de 6°. Note : la puissance de coude, exprimée en µA, pour un azimut donné, est l’amplitude de la perturbation de l’alignement qui résulterait de la réflexion totale, dans l’axe d’approche, de l’énergie rayonnée dans l’azimut considéré"
Thanks for your help
Ihatetrados
Local time: 13:11


Summary of answers provided
4puissance=power
savaria (X)
5 -1alignment perturbation level
kashew
3Coude/Coudé level
Jennifer Levey
2power coude
Bashiqa


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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
puissance=power


Explanation:
That's 99% sure.

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Note added at 11 perc (2008-07-03 15:52:57 GMT)
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can it be bent power?


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savaria (X)
Hungary
Local time: 13:11
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian
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40 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Coude/Coudé level


Explanation:
If the system uses techniques more-commonly applied to antronomical spectrography, then "puissance de Coudé" translates as "Coude/é level", where Coudé is a proper noun and therefore invariable.

AEOS Spectrograph OverviewThe AEOS coude beam proceeds vertically downward along the azimuth axis to the coude level, where it is sent to one of seven separate experiment rooms by a ...
ccd.ifa.hawaii.edu/AEOS/misc/overview.html - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

Science Goals and Development of the Advanced Technology Solar ...the beam-reducing relay optics and all of the coude-level instrumentation of ATST. The. rotator can accommodate the simultaneous installation of up to eight ...
journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=288641 - Similar pages


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Note added at 42 mins (2008-07-03 16:23:04 GMT)
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oops! --> aStronomical spectrography

Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 09:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 263
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you, but I guess the writer would have spelt Coudé correctly (the rest of the doc is flawless). I've asked my client for a suggestion and will eventually grade when/if I get one

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
power coude


Language variant: UK

Explanation:
This site refers to optical beam alignment. Quite possibly applies to electromagnetics.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFECTING HIGH-POWER BEAM CONTROL WITH ...
of the deformable mirror must accommodate the full size of the high power laser beam in the high power Coude path prior to expansion via an output ...
www.patentstorm.us/patents/6849841/description.html - 61k - Cached - Similar pages - Note thisThe size of the active region
of the deformable mirror must accommodate the full size of the high power
laser beam in the high power Coude path prior to expansion via an output
telescope.

Bashiqa
France
Local time: 13:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Asker: Thanks for the effort. I'm not sure it applies to my field, but I've asked my client for a suggestion and will eventually grade when/if I get one

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
alignment perturbation level


Explanation:
According to the NB definition.

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Note added at 19 hrs (2008-07-04 11:23:49 GMT)
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I translated the embedded definition omitting its amplification. One must trust the writer, presumably an expert, to know his stuff!
Why guess or extrapolate when it's served up on a plate? English-speaking pilots probably have an equivalent flying-jargon term - but a scientific definition is internationally comprehensible and more suitable/correct in a specification context.

kashew
France
Local time: 13:11
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PRO pts in category: 100
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Asker: Thanks. I guess it's the general idea, but I've asked my client for a suggestion and will eventually grade when/if I get one.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Jennifer Levey: Please clarify: what is NB? And can you quote the definition - or give us a web-link? // And in any case, asker is querying 'puissance de coude' (the term), not 'l’amplitude de la perturbation de l’alignement' (which is part of the explantion).
29 mins
  -> I am trying to circumvent the jargon - who needs it?
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