Jan 2, 2006 21:41
18 yrs ago
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Italian term
Juliet Halewood (X)
parallelepipedo
Italian to English
Tech/Engineering
Mechanics / Mech Engineering
Ingombro del parallelepipedo contenente la macchina - does this actually mean parallelepiped or the overall dimensions?
Proposed translations
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| 4 +3 | overall dimensions |
David Russi
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| 4 +4 | parallelepiped |
Michele Fauble
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Proposed translations
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David Russi
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overall dimensions
I agree with you that the general sense is that of the maximum space occupied by the machine in each of the 3 dimensions.
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Comment: "Thanks - went for this as I think using the word parallelepiped in English might not be clear"
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Michele Fauble
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parallelepiped
In three dimensions, a parallelepiped is a prism whose faces are all ... is called
a parallelepiped, generalizing the notion of a parallelogram, ...
mathworld.wolfram.com/Parallelepiped.html -
a parallelepiped, generalizing the notion of a parallelogram, ...
mathworld.wolfram.com/Parallelepiped.html -
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Gian
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Vittorio Preite
: It this context it is really the box to contain the object
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Peter Cox
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Katharine Prucha
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