Radiostraaling

English translation: Radio frequency emission

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Danish term or phrase:Radiostraaling
English translation:Radio frequency emission
Entered by: AGDANE

05:12 Mar 1, 2011
Danish to English translations [PRO]
Science (general)
Danish term or phrase: Radiostraaling
Radio signals/patterns from Space, context: SETI 'research'.
AGDANE
Local time: 13:10
Radio frequency emission
Explanation:
In the Wikipedia article on SETI, the word 'emission' is used. In my experience, although 'emission' and 'radiation' may be linguistic synonyms, in practice, 'emission' is usually used in the sense of transmission of electromagnetic radiation(!) when the focus is on the information content of the transmission. 'Radiation' is more often used either by physicists or when the focus is on health aspects of the e.m. transmission.
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Michael Davies
Denmark
Local time: 03:10
Grading comment
Thank you Davies, and good explanation.
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4 +1Radio frequency emission
Michael Davies
4radio frequency radiation
Sven Petersson


  

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radio frequency radiation


Explanation:
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Sven Petersson
Sweden
Local time: 03:10
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Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Radio frequency emission


Explanation:
In the Wikipedia article on SETI, the word 'emission' is used. In my experience, although 'emission' and 'radiation' may be linguistic synonyms, in practice, 'emission' is usually used in the sense of transmission of electromagnetic radiation(!) when the focus is on the information content of the transmission. 'Radiation' is more often used either by physicists or when the focus is on health aspects of the e.m. transmission.

Example sentence(s):
  • If this is typical, one way of discovering an extraterrestrial civilization might be to detect non-natural radio emissions from a location outside our Solar System.
  • Radio frequency (RF) emissions are electromagnetic waves that transport energy as they travel through space and time.

    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI
    Reference: http://www.experts123.com/q/what-is-radio-frequency-emission...
Michael Davies
Denmark
Local time: 03:10
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you Davies, and good explanation.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Susanne Friesen: Exactly! Compare: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081011084045AA...
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