Sortierung

English translation: Assortment, classification; sorting, grading

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14:01 May 16, 2000

German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering

German term or phrase: Sortierung

Describing a variety of barley
'Fast rundes Korn mit guter Sortierung..."

Michael Dollman

English translation:Assortment, classification; sorting, grading

Explanation:
Muret-Sanders Encyclopaedic dict. says "1 assortment,and 2 (according to qualtiy) classification.

Langenscheidt's Biology dictionary (Eichhorn) has "sorting, grading; assortment, classification"

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John Schweinsberg

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Summary of answers provided

grading; sorting

Michael Rosner

of a good grade/of uniform size

xxxKristina M

gradation

John Kinory

An almost round corn with good sorting

bhpirch

Assortment, classification; sorting, grading

John Schweinsberg

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25 mins

Assortment, classification; sorting, grading

John Schweinsberg
PRO pts in pair: 55

Grading comment

Thanks for this

31 mins

An almost round corn with good sorting

Explanation:
Barley is a corn (Gerstenkorn = barley corn) and
Sortierung is either assortment or sorting
Good luck!

bhpirch
Local time: 17:31
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in pair: 73

3 hrs

gradation

Explanation:
sorting or classification, regardless of whether or not corn is involved :)
However, in this context I'd go for 'gradation' (seeds are usually graded, not sorted)

John Kinory
Local time: 23:31
PRO pts in pair: 290

6 hrs

of a good grade/of uniform size

Explanation:
Not having more context, I am not sure in which direction direction to go, but I have strong hunch that one of these ideas is being referred to.

Kristina

xxxKristina M
Local time: 18:31
Native speaker of:

German,

English
PRO pts in pair: 94

9 hrs

grading; sorting

Explanation:
Leo German-English Dictionary

Reference: http://dict.leo.org

Michael Rosner
Israel
Local time: 01:31

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