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Kugelfang

English translation: globular/spherical selection

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German term or phrase:	Kugelfang
English translation:	globular/spherical selection
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18:50 Nov 17, 2009

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Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology) / Microsoft Excel/Evaluierung

German term or phrase: Kugelfang

In the context of an Excel-based evaluation tool:

"Optisch ist es oft schwer zu sagen, welche Elemente näher zu einem Punkt liegen als andere. Das Werkzeug „Kugelfang“ erlaubt eine genauere Prü-fung. Dazu wird ein Element angeklickt und bei gedrückter Maustaste ein kugelförmiger Raum um dieses Element herum aufgezogen. Andere Ele-mente, die in diesem Raum liegen, verfärben sich gelb. Je früher ein Ele-ment seine Farbe ändert, desto näher lag es an dem Punkt, von dem aus der Abstand bestimmt wurde. Im Auswertungsfenster am rechten Rand der Anzeige werden die Elemente in der Reihenfolge angezeigt, in der sie er-reicht wurden. Eine Prozentzahl gibt an, wie groß der Radius der aufgezo-genen Kugel im Vergleich zum Radius des Raummodells ist."

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tocde KudoZ activity Questions: 46 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 3
Local time: 03:09

globular/spherical selection

Explanation:
As with Trichterfang, I have seen this in the context of a computer-supported analysis tool called "Nextexpertizer" (http://www.nextpractice.de/en/services/nextexpertizer/produc... Extensive details on nextexpertizer and t.o.p.GRID can be found in thre reference link below. Here they use "globular analysis" to describe "Kugelfang". To keep it similar to the other term you could use "globular selection" or "spherical selection".

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Uta Kappler
Local time: 20:09

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Kugelfang or Bullseye or Ripple

Edwin Miles

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globular/spherical selection

Uta Kappler

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Kugelfang or Bullseye or Ripple

Explanation:
As "Kugelfang" is the name of the tool, does it require translation at all? A Kugelfang is the bullet-catching backstop to a target and does not translate very well into a single catchy word like "Kugelfang." "Bullet catcher" just doesn't sound as cool... If it really must be translated, why not call it "bullseye" or "ripple" or something else that carries the sense of what the passage describes?

Edwin Miles
Germany
Local time: 04:09
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