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asphériques hors d'axe

English translation: off-axis aspherics

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French term or phrase:asphériques hors d'axe [optical mfg]
English translation:off-axis aspherics
Entered by: Tony M

07:36 Mar 31, 2005
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Manufacturing / Optics
French term or phrase: asphériques hors d'axe
 asphériques hors d'axe, systèmes à miroirs et catadioptriques

Text on optical manufacturing; no idea what "hors d'axe" would be
Fiona McBrearty
Local time: 22:12
off-axis
Explanation:
Well, that's what it would normally mean; I'm a bit unclear in your exact context, since it is not a complete sentence, but normally the terms you have asked about would mean "aspherical lenses off-axis" --- but standing alone like that, it doesn't make a lot of sense. If the term was something like "degradations in the off-axis performance of aspherical lenses", I could understand it better...


HTH!
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Tony M
France
Local time: 22:12
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As I said in my note, I have no further context but I did find "off-axis aspherics" in the following site so I'm going for that. Thanks to you both for your contributions. http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/onsite/courses/pdl05.lasso

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4off-axis
Tony M
4offset
SusanMurray


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asphériques hors d'axe
off-axis


Explanation:
Well, that's what it would normally mean; I'm a bit unclear in your exact context, since it is not a complete sentence, but normally the terms you have asked about would mean "aspherical lenses off-axis" --- but standing alone like that, it doesn't make a lot of sense. If the term was something like "degradations in the off-axis performance of aspherical lenses", I could understand it better...


HTH!

Tony M
France
Local time: 22:12
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 172
Grading comment
As I said in my note, I have no further context but I did find "off-axis aspherics" in the following site so I'm going for that. Thanks to you both for your contributions. http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/onsite/courses/pdl05.lasso
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asphériques hors d'axe
offset


Explanation:
In manufacturing machining is often offset from the principal axis.

VERRE ASPHERIQUE Un verre convexe est un verre convergent, il corrige l'hypermétropie. C'est un verre épais en son centre et plus fin sur les bords, du fait de son épaisseur, il est aussi lourd.
www.novacel-optical.com/aspherique.htm

Hope this can help

SusanMurray
Local time: 22:12
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 17
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