geschlossene Fläche

English translation: continuous surface

11:57 Jul 29, 2006

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Tech/Engineering - Medical: Instruments

German term or phrase: geschlossene Fläche

I feel like Harry Faversham in The Four Feathers, who stared into the sun too long .... "The heat, the terrible, cruel heat, I'm going mad, I tell you ..."

Anyway, I'm sure this is blindingly (pun) obvious - but the heat has fried my brain: it's from a patent for a valve connector for a medical liquid bag:

"Ventilvorrichtung in einem Anschlussstück mit einem am vorderen und hinteren Ende offenen Durchflusskanal, in dem ein Ventilkörper angeordnet ist, der mittels eines axial verstellbaren Schiebeteiles in Öffnungsstellung bringbar ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet,
dass der Ventilkörper als Ventilklappe (20) mit geschlossener Fläche ausgebildet ist..."

I can't decide if it's more likely to mean "integral surface", "enclosed surface", or something else entirely (what's a "closed surface"?). Any experts on valve flaps out there?

TIA!

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English translation:continuous surface

Explanation:
means, it has no 'breaks' or 'interruptions' in it

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continuous surface

gangels (X)

closed surface

Isabella Becker

compact surface

Erik Freitag

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closed surface

Explanation:
Based on Langenscheidt
geschlossene Fläche
f <math> • closed surface

closed surface (or simple closed surface) - A surface that divides space into three distinct regions: 1) points in the interior of the surface, which always form the endpoints of finite segments; 2) points on the surface; and 3) points in the exterior of the surface, which can form the endpoints of infinite segments.

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Reference: http://www.sparknotes.com/math/geometry1/geometricsurfaces/s...

Isabella Becker
Brazil
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

45 mins confidence:

compact surface

Explanation:
Gemeint sein könnte eine Oberfläche, die keine Durchlässe aufweist.

Erik Freitag
Germany
Local time: 00:06
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 4

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continuous surface

Explanation:
means, it has no 'breaks' or 'interruptions' in it

gangels (X)
Local time: 16:06
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English,

German
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