Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Jun 27, 2005 21:56
21 yrs ago
English term
tracking
I know what the term means, i.e. locking a radar beam onto a target so that a moving target can be followed on-screen during successively received echo signals, but I'm finding this, and the related noun 'track' (posted separately), rather tricky to translate.
Source text example: "The present invention relates to tracking of multiple targets by means of measurements from various sensors and in particular to track initiation during multiple target tracking by means of measurements from passive sensors".
In this example, solutions for 'tracking of multiple targets' could perhaps be: 'het volgen van meervoudige doelen' or 'het traceren van meervoudige doelen'. Most of the googles I get for Dutch texts in the field of radar, however, seem to suggest that the term 'tracking' (used substantively in a more or less general sense) is usually not translated. But using the untranslated term 'tracking' in a verbal sense as in the case of 'tracking of multiple targets' would, to my mind (at least in a formal legal document such as a patent application), require a totally unacceptable modification such as 'het tracken van meervoudige doelen'.
Opting for the use of the untranslated term 'tracking' also provides a bit of dilemma when one is confronted with a related source term such as 'track' -- used alone or in all kinds of compounds such as 'strobe tracks', 'track crosses' and 'track initiation' -- and tries to use the non-translating approach consistently in Dutch (e.g. strobetracks, trackkruisen, trackinitiëring).
The only neat solution I can think of is to translate 'tracking' by 'traceren', and 'track' (noun) by 'tracé'. These terms do not seem to be used in the field of radar, however. Anybody out there with a better idea?
Source text example: "The present invention relates to tracking of multiple targets by means of measurements from various sensors and in particular to track initiation during multiple target tracking by means of measurements from passive sensors".
In this example, solutions for 'tracking of multiple targets' could perhaps be: 'het volgen van meervoudige doelen' or 'het traceren van meervoudige doelen'. Most of the googles I get for Dutch texts in the field of radar, however, seem to suggest that the term 'tracking' (used substantively in a more or less general sense) is usually not translated. But using the untranslated term 'tracking' in a verbal sense as in the case of 'tracking of multiple targets' would, to my mind (at least in a formal legal document such as a patent application), require a totally unacceptable modification such as 'het tracken van meervoudige doelen'.
Opting for the use of the untranslated term 'tracking' also provides a bit of dilemma when one is confronted with a related source term such as 'track' -- used alone or in all kinds of compounds such as 'strobe tracks', 'track crosses' and 'track initiation' -- and tries to use the non-translating approach consistently in Dutch (e.g. strobetracks, trackkruisen, trackinitiëring).
The only neat solution I can think of is to translate 'tracking' by 'traceren', and 'track' (noun) by 'tracé'. These terms do not seem to be used in the field of radar, however. Anybody out there with a better idea?
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Harry Borsje
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ik begrijp je dilemma wel, maar enerzijds lijkt mij de keus voor onvertaald gebruik niet persé een probleem (evt. met veelvuldig, misschien grammaticaal incorrect, gebruik van koppelstreepjes voor de znw.); anderzijds, als je toch wilt vertalen, lijkt mij de juiste keus voor het ww. 'volgen' en voor het znw. 'spoor' (traceren heeft meer de betekenis van opsporen, tracé is wel een optie, maar heeft meer de betekenis van een vooraf bepaalde route, terwijl hier sprake is van het visualiseren van een gevolgde route)
in ieder geval succes ermee!
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Note added at 12 hrs 11 mins (2005-06-28 10:08:38 GMT)
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Mede nav JWvD en GdN: als je meerdere gebruikt ipv meervoudige, zou je dan niet moeten zeggen: \'het gelijktijdig volgen van meerdere doelen\'? Overigens zou je, vrij naar Van Dale, evt. ook nog kunnen opteren voor \'verspreide doelen\'
in ieder geval succes ermee!
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Note added at 12 hrs 11 mins (2005-06-28 10:08:38 GMT)
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Mede nav JWvD en GdN: als je meerdere gebruikt ipv meervoudige, zou je dan niet moeten zeggen: \'het gelijktijdig volgen van meerdere doelen\'? Overigens zou je, vrij naar Van Dale, evt. ook nog kunnen opteren voor \'verspreide doelen\'
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Comment: "Hartelijk dank allemaal voor het meedenken. In overleg met de desbetreffende octrooigemachtigde heb ik 'tracking' vertaald met 'volgen' en 'track' met spoor."
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het spoor volgen van
Babylon:
• track [træk]
ww. bewegen en filmen (v. cameraman); volgen, het spoor volgen van
• track [træk]
ww. bewegen en filmen (v. cameraman); volgen, het spoor volgen van
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Jan Willem van Dormolen (X)
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