VST-Gewinde

English translation: UST-Gewinde?!

10:49 May 27, 2000
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering
German term or phrase: VST-Gewinde
sorry no context
Cristina
English translation:UST-Gewinde?!
Explanation:
I have not seen a VST-Gewinde before, however, might it be a UST-Gewinde?
=Unified Screw Thread and quite common like that in German.
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Kerstin Uhl
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Local time: 12:05
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naUST-Gewinde?!
Kerstin Uhl
nasee below
Tom Funke
naamendment
Tom Funke
nasee below
Beth Kantus


  

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9 mins
UST-Gewinde?!


Explanation:
I have not seen a VST-Gewinde before, however, might it be a UST-Gewinde?
=Unified Screw Thread and quite common like that in German.


Kerstin Uhl
United States
Local time: 12:05
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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1 hr
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Explanation:
It looks like Cristina has a good point: In AltaVista (any language): "vst-gewinde": AltaVista found no document matching your query --- "+vst +gewinde": 1 [irrelevant] page found. Nothing relevant in any of my in-hoiuse dictionaries.

Tom Funke
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8 hrs
amendment


Explanation:
Apologies! I meant ...kerstinuhl has a good point. (I kept switching back and forth between ProZ and a job I was doing -- not a translation -- a little confusing.)

Tom Funke
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2 days 23 hrs
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Explanation:
Since there's no context, just a wild guess: recently I had a long "laundry list" of parts (automotive), and throughout the list the company used "VST" as an abbrebiation for Verstärkung. Any part having to do with the reinforcement was listed as VST-......
For what it's worth, HTH, Beth.



Beth Kantus
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