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vacuum pressure
(e.g. in wood preservation: in
sealed chamber, air and moisture are sucked out by the
vacuum, then preservative is forced in under pressure)
/
centrale vacüumsysteem
=
central vacuum system (ventilation)
/ courant vagabond =
stray
current (elec.)
/ sous valeur
compensée =
remitter's
account debited and beneficiary's account credited both on the same
value date (banking; NB
renderings of 'compensated value' and the
like are not English!) / valeur
K = K value (conductivity
of
heat in a building) / valeur
R =
R value
(thermal
resistance of building) / valeur
U = U value (overall
heat
transfer
coefficient of a building)
/ analyse de validité
sociale = social
soundness
analysis (IDA:
development
projects)
/ unité de valorisation
énergétique
=
energy recovery facility / production de vapeur
=
steam raising / vapo-déposition
= vapour deposition; vapour
plating / variable
centrée réduite =
standardised
variable; variable
normale centrée réduite =
standard normal variable (Eurodicautom)
/ Várzea =
alluvial
flood plain along Amazon, also used as generic term (Brazil)
(ITI)
/ boite
VAV
= VAV box (ventilation)
/
V-chip
chip
installable in TV
sets to allow parents to control what their children watch
(BBC)
/ veine barrée =
banded seam (coalm.)
/ vélocité
faciale = face velocity (filter,
mask) / ventilatievoud
see
Luftwechsel
/ Verdrängungseffekt
= crowding-out effect (public
borrowing, higher interest rates, hampers private investment)
/ Veredelung
=
upgrading (coalm.)
/ Verflechtungstabellen
=
correspondence
tables (EU,
statistics)
/ Vergleichspräzision
= reproducibility (math/stat.)
/ vergleichsweise see
streitmäßig
? /
comité
de vérification
= Audit Committee (EU:
EIB)
/ vérité
des prix = fair pricing (EU,
transport) / verjährt
= statute-barred /
verkehrsmäßig
= fit for sale (marketing)
/ Verkehrsteilung
=
modal
split (i.e. how a city's public
transport breaks down into tram, bus
and
rail services) / Verköstigung
= use / verlegging
van
het
handelsverkeer - deflection of
trade / Versatz
= stowing (coalm.);
types: Blasversatz =
pneumatic
stowing; Schleuderversatz = centrifugal stowing; Spülversatz =
hydraulic
stowing;
Sturzversatz = ?
dumping; Teilversatz = partial
stowing; Vollversatz = complete
stowing / Versatzfeld
=
stowing area / Versäumnisurteil
see
streitmässig ? /
Versiegelung = soil sealing
(urban planning).
Defined: "compacting or
covering existing soils with
an impermeable surface", i.e. (usually) building houses and roads,
cf. "versiegelte
Flächen sind
verbaute Flächen
(z.B. Straßen,
Güterwege,
Asphaltflächen)". But, confusingly, versiegelte
Flächen may be "bebaut" or "unbebaut". Thus, a park or golf
course might be a versiegelte but
unbebaute Fläche,
because
the land has been altered but there are no buildings on it. But the
Fläche occupied by a
housing estate would be both versiegelt
and bebaut.
In the
specialist context,
"sealed area" seems the correct technical term. As a more general term,
"built-on area" or "developed area" might suffice.
/ Vertriebsanzeige =
notification
of intent
to sell / Verwertung =
recycling (waste)
/ Verzahnung
= intermodality (transport)
/ Vier-Augen-Prinzip = double-checking; the "two
man rule" /
the Višegrad
Group: Czech
Republic, Hungary, Poland & Slovakia (grouping
set up
1991 after collapse of communism for economic and defence links)
/ visuel = screen grab (computers)
/ vitrophanie
(also
vitrauphanie)
= decal, sticker (ITI)
/ voie
en
couche
= gate road (coalm.)
/ volet-arrière =
tailgate (automotive)
/ Volkenbond
=
League of
Nations (1920-46)
/ vocalises appliquées = sustained vocalises (singing) /
Vollbank = full-service bank / Vollschnittmaschine
= full face heading machine,
full facer (coalm.)
/ Vollversatz
see Versatz / volumétrie;
volumétrique = seems to refer to the interior of a
building
but, NB “volumetric detection” seems to be an OK
technical term in video surveillance / voorhands
= at the moment, for the present
/ im Vorfeld
(des) = "peripheral to (the)" /
vorgelagert = upstream of (a
production sector e.g.) / vorgeschaltet
= previous (=
next level
down of consultation e.g., or previous court of instance)
/ vorläufiger
Ausbau see Ausbau (2)
/ im vorpolitischen
Raum = "below
the
policy-making level" / Vorrichtungsstrecke
see Strecke
/ Vorschacht
see Schacht
/ Vorsorgeprinzip =
"prevention" (as
opposed to
cure) / Vorspannungsanlage=
pre-stressing plant
(ropes)
/ im vorstaatlichen
Raum = "not part of the government sector" / Vortriebsstrecke
see
Strecke / Vorverlagerung
= "externalisation", i.e.
shifting checks further upstream, away
from the EU's external borders to a border in the country
that migrants start out from or transit through) (migration,
EU border
control)
/
état
voyou
= rogue state (pol.)
/ VST
=
Verbindungsstelle
(AU
government)
(suggest)
liaison office
Created
by Alison Gaunt
Last
updated: 23 January 2025
