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Dachschicht
= accumulation (of
firedamp)
under the
roof (coalm.)
/ Daseinsvorsorge
= public service provision (of
utilities, public
amenities) / Data
Protection Committee
(UK)
/ Datensichtgerät =
visual display unit, VDU / Datensparsamkeit
= 'data
thrift' (term encountered
almost exclusively in the German
context) / Dauerbiegfestigkeitsprüfung
= bending fatigue test (ropes)
/ débilitre
= flow
meter (on
pressure reducer valve e.g.) /
machine à
déboucher =
tapping machine
(steelm.)
/ décapage =
scouring (mechan.);
pickling (chem.)
/ lampe à décharge
= (electric)
discharge lamp / Deckungsbeitrag
= gross margin (comm.)
/ déclenché
see
arrêt-barrage
/ déclic = click (sound,
keyboard) / boucle à
déclic = snap fastener / décloisonnement
= openness (building
design, i.e. as few
internal walls as possible) / poste de décochage
= stripping bay (steelm.)
/ decoder
(TV
broadc.): "een programma dat
achter een filter, maar vóór een
decoder
wordt aangeboden" = a programme which needs a filter in order to view
it
but is not encoded / décolmatage
= unclogging (pipes
e.g.)
/
organe de décompression
= pressure reducer / decrement
a
quantifiable deterioration in performance (erg.)
/ décriqueur
= scarfing machine (steelm.)
/ décroché
= autonomous (radio,
TV stations, cf. BBC's regional opt-out)
/ motion de défiance = motion of no
confidence (polit.) / défournement
= discharging (coke
from coke ovens) / dégager
= 1. (generally)
to release (funds);
2. =
(as
opposite of "engager") to cancel
(funds committed for
development aid e.g.) / Dehngrenze
= proof stress (metal.:
expressed as %; ITI)
/ Dehnung
= extension (ropes)
/ Deichselstapler =
motorized
trolley (as
in supermarkets), hand-steered by pedestrian who operates it from the Deichsel
or tiller / dekursiv
(AU:
banking):
"die Kaution wird
mit
4% per anno dekursiv verzinst; die
Zinsen
werden jeweils dem Kautionsbetrag hinzugerechnet" = "the deposit will
earn
non-compound/split interest at a rate of 4% per annum".
It means "afterwards", "at the
end of the year" as opposed to
"antizipativ"
(ITI)
/
délocalisation
= social dumping / Delphi-Runde
= Delphi
round; Delphi
study (research)
/ date de la demande = date of trade (futures
trading) / démembrement =
devolution; delegation
(process); devolved agency; delegated agency (body)
/ à
demi-teinte
= half-hearted; half-ish;
half-baked / Demokratischer
Aufbruch = "Democratic
Awakening" (GDR opposition
party 1990); source: Keesing)
/
dénaturation
= processing (steelm.)
/ départ quai,
see
DEQ
/ prix
départ
usine = factory gate prices / dépôt
à découvert = (unsealed) deposit (banking)
/ dépôt fiduciaire = escrow
account (banking) / Deputatkohle
=
concessionary coal / dérapage
= slippage (from development
targets) / derivatograph
/ déshuilé
= oil-free / descente
de charges = goods elevator (NB
dep. on context can also be 'load
distribution') / destitution = impeachment (polit.) /
détendeur
=
pressure reducer (valve) (pipes;
oxygen cylinders) / détournement
= deflection (trade);
misuse (power, public goods);
diversion (customs
revenue) / Deutsches
Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
=
German
Development Institute (Berlin)
/
développement
participatif =
participatory development
(development aid) / Dezernat = unit (admin.
DE) / déversoir
d'orage
= storm drain (hydrol.)
/ diagonale
cumulatie = diagonal cumulation (trade)
/ diaitema:
"diaitema
ist griechisch. Der
Koran enthält aber auch
hygienische und
diätetische Vorschriften.
Daher: diaitema der Araber =
vorgeschriebene
Lebensweise der Araber" / Dickenhobelmaschine
=
thicknesser / diffusion
systématique =
current awareness / Digitalisierung
= digitisation (not digitalisation) / lyres de
dilatation =
expansion
bends (pipes)
/ Diplom-Kaufmann:
business graduate (D).
Qualification
requires 4-5 years of higher
education. Often translated as "MBA" which, in the Anglo-Saxon system,
takes 2 years following a first 3-year bachelor's degree. Best to leave
it in German, with a note if necessary.
/ Directeur-Général
= managing director,
general manager
(ITI:
comm.) / disjoncteur
=
circuit breaker / Dispersionsfarben,
Dispersionslacke =
emulsion paints,
varnishes / données aberrantes =
outliers; outlier data /
données sales = dirty data; rogue data / Doppelbeschluß
= twin-track decision (NATO,
1979)
/ la
dorsale = "the Hot Banana":
geographic swathe of developed
heartland of EU sweeping from e.g. Birmingham through Benelux,
Rhineland,
Frankfurt, Milan... (source:
BBC)
/ dosage des impôts = tax mix /
Dosierprotokoll = batch protocol (industrial
processing)
/ travail
en
doublé = supervised
practical work (vocational
training) / Draht
von hoher Zugfestigkeit = high
tensile wire / drallfrei =
non-rotating (ropes)
/ Drehmomentenschlüssel
= torque
spanner / Dreh-
und Torsionstest = torque-turn
test (ropes)
/ dresser =
straighten (pipes)
/
prisonniers de droit commun =
UNCHR
term casually taken up by media as "common law prisoners".. What it
actually means is prisoners sentenced by due process of law as opposed
to
prisoners detained without trial (ITI)
/ droit conventionnel
= treaty law / droit
dérivé =
secondary
legislation (EU)
/ droit
interne = national law;
domestic
law / à droit nul =
zero-rated (VAT e.g.)
/ droit positif =
"positive law" (actual
rules of law as opposed to accepted moral standards)
/ im Druck
= at
press; in press (bibliographies
e.g.) / Drucklufthammer
=
pneumatic pick (coalm.)
/ Druckschleuse =
pressurized
chamber (metal.:
hard metal) / duingrasland
= dune grassland / eine hohe Dunkelziffer
= a high number of
unknown cases: use paraphrase
such as "go(es) largely
unreported" / laminoir duo
Skin Pass= two-high Skin Pass
rolling mill (steelm.)
/ Durchführungsbürgschaft
= performance bond
(constr.)
/ Durchlichtphotometer =
transmitted light photometer / dust
cake
(compacted dust entrapped on
filter)
/ dynamische Beanspruchung =
impulse
loading, impulse load test, pulsatory testing (ropes)
/ clé dynamométrique
= torque wrench /
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Last
updated:14 October 2024
