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Direktverkande elvärme

English translation: direct electrical heating/heating by electricity

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Swedish term or phrase:Direktverkande elvärme
English translation:direct electrical heating/heating by electricity
Entered by: Mats Wiman

10:02 May 30, 2002
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering
Swedish term or phrase: Direktverkande elvärme
Vanlig form av uppvärmning i hushåll
Stefan
direct electrical heating
Explanation:
ingen
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Mats Wiman
Sweden
Local time: 19:50
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2direct electrical heating
Mats Wiman
1 -2direct action of the electricity generated warmth
Mabel Garzón


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): -2
direct action of the electricity generated warmth


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Mabel Garzón
Colombia
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Hans-Bertil Karlsson (X): warmth är fel !! Måste vara heating
54 mins
disagree  Peter Linton (X): Sorry, but this sounds more like machine translation than English.
7 hrs
  -> What a lovely sound
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
direct electrical heating


Explanation:
ingen


    BOMH
Mats Wiman
Sweden
Local time: 19:50
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish
PRO pts in pair: 1826
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Hans-Bertil Karlsson (X)
34 mins
agree  Peter Linton (X): ...or just 'heating by electricity'
7 hrs
  -> could also be via water, so it is not correct. I use it myself.
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