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user assignable

20:53 Jul 6, 2014
English to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Aerospace / Aviation / Space / Legal
English term or phrase: user assignable
Hello,

Can anyone help me translate user assignable in the following sentence?

This allows for pan and tilt control as well user assignable speeds and operation modes with 2 custom toggle switches on the transmitter.


Many thanks
Cybe
Local time: 09:18


Summary of answers provided
4 +1(vitesses) réglables par l'utilisateur
francois lhuillery
4 +1assignables par l'utilisateur
GILLES MEUNIER
3configurable par l'utilisateur
Tony M
4 -2pouvant être affectées à l'utilisateur
Marcombes (X)


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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
(vitesses) réglables par l'utilisateur


Explanation:
(assignable by the user)

francois lhuillery
France
Local time: 09:18
Native speaker of: French

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: 'assignable' doesn't usually mean 'réglable' — it is usually to do with 'affectation', though it's hard to see how you do that with speeds...
12 mins
  -> If you can set different speeds for different tasks, I guess it may be considered as "affectation"
agree  Daryo: that's what's makes sense here
16 hrs
  -> Thank's Daryo
neutral  GILLES MEUNIER: attribuer, assigner, affecter. Cela est différent de régler
1 day 10 hrs
  -> je suis d'accord, mais même s'il n'y a que 2 ou 3 positions, n'est ce pas déjà un réglage? assignable est peu esthétique mēme si le sens est plus précis..
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
assignables par l'utilisateur


Explanation:
http://blewando.dlinkddns.com/Terminale/formulaflowcode/comp...



GILLES MEUNIER
France
Local time: 09:18
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 504

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: bonne réf. (+ https://www.google.com/search?num=50&site=&source=hp&q="assi... )
1 hr
neutral  Tony M: My only concern is this sounds awfully like one of those anglicisms you so hate! All the examples I found on the 'Net (inlcuding your own ref.) were translated from sites originally in EN; I couldn't find a single native-FR example :-(
8 hrs
  -> Je traduis des manuels informatiques et c'est un terme que je rencontre souvent....
neutral  Daryo: doesn't sound at all like the proper user of "assigner", more like a calque// http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/assigner/5833
21 hrs
  -> Certainement pas, je le rencontre souvent dans les TM. Assigner un ID utilisateur, par exemple, est très courant...
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
pouvant être affectées à l'utilisateur


Explanation:
Freely assignable function keys and customizable displays enable the user ... (9) pouvant être affectées, une fonction choisie par l'utilisateur parmi celles

Marcombes (X)
France
Local time: 09:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Daryo: pouvant être affectées/choisies/... par l'utilisateur / ça se passe dans l'autre sens / "l'utilisateur" est ici un agent actif, non un récipient passif
4 hrs
disagree  Tony M: Agree with Daryo, it has to be 'by' and not 'to'
6 hrs
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18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
user-assignable
configurable par l'utilisateur


Explanation:
and before some clever-clogs comes along and says it — yes, I know this really translates 'user-configurable'; however, it does get many, many thousands of Ghits, at least a respectable proportion of them from native FR sites — and to all intents and purposes, probably means the same thing in this particular context: the user can configure the various speeds to various functions; in fact, the very use of 'user-assignable' in the first place is technically odd, and might be inaccurate (wider context?) — 'speeds' are not usually something one 'assigns'.

I suspect here it is probably something like the unit has, say, 'High', 'Medium', and 'Low' speed positions, and the user can assign a specific (pre-defined) speed to each of those 3 positions; that's the only meaning I can attribute to the use of 'assign' here.

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Note added at 18 heures (2014-07-07 15:37:25 GMT)
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Interestingly enough, just out of masochism, I did even check to see if there were any examples of 'affectables par l'utilisateur' out there — and to my surprise there actually are!

Not surprisingly, though, they are all translations from texts originally in EN, and most of them can be blamed on Yamaha!

Tony M
France
Local time: 09:18
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 23

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Daryo: by far the best option, so far
12 hrs
  -> Merci, Daryo !
disagree  GILLES MEUNIER: assigner et configurer, ce n'est pas la même chose. Lorsque vous assignez un ID à un utilisateur, vous ne le configurez pas....
15 hrs
  -> En effet, et je comprend bien la différence ; le seul hic, c'est que je n'ai trouvé aucun site FR de souche qui l'utilise (et assez peu même de traduit)
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