Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Leuchtdichte

German: Leuchtdichte


I always want to translate this "light density", but of course it is luminance.  Fortunately, every time I have to translate things about lighting, I always have a good TM.  But for this last one, I ran across a great lighting technology dictionary.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Sicherheitsabfrage

German: Sicherheitsabfrage

I've been flummoxed by this for years, and now I feel stupid: confirmation prompt is a much, much better translation than the stupid "safety query" or "security query" I've been defaulting to.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

gekröpft

German: gekröpft (of a chain link)

Offset link, apparently.  A "gekröpftes Glied" is a half-link used to get the length of a roller chain (like a bicycle chain) right. Source: http://www.fks-gmbh.de/katalog/fks_katalog.pdf.