Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
fonction créneau(x)
English translation:
square/rectangular function
Added to glossary by
chris collister
Jun 13, 2012 09:38
11 yrs ago
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French term
fonction créneau(x)
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Aerospace / Aviation / Space
patent to do with jet engine maintenance: a device which reaches into areas of difficult access inside turbines in order to machine surfaces.
"Avantageusement, la bague de configuration présente une épaisseur qui peut varier par rapport aux coordonnées angulaires de la bague selon une fonction déterminée parmi une des fonctions suivantes : fonction triangle, fonction en dents de scie, fonction créneaux, et fonction sinusoïdale."
I'm not sure whether it should be "fonction créneaux" or "fonction créneau"... but anyway the question is what is the best translation, particularly bearing in mind that we are talking about a shaped piece of metal, not a wave. Having done a bit of searching in the usual places, I have a couple of candidates, including "rectangular function", "square wave function"... but I get very few google hits for "rectangular function" "fonction créneau(x)" (both phrases, quotes included): specifically 1 for the "x" version and 0 for the singular...
"Avantageusement, la bague de configuration présente une épaisseur qui peut varier par rapport aux coordonnées angulaires de la bague selon une fonction déterminée parmi une des fonctions suivantes : fonction triangle, fonction en dents de scie, fonction créneaux, et fonction sinusoïdale."
I'm not sure whether it should be "fonction créneaux" or "fonction créneau"... but anyway the question is what is the best translation, particularly bearing in mind that we are talking about a shaped piece of metal, not a wave. Having done a bit of searching in the usual places, I have a couple of candidates, including "rectangular function", "square wave function"... but I get very few google hits for "rectangular function" "fonction créneau(x)" (both phrases, quotes included): specifically 1 for the "x" version and 0 for the singular...
Proposed translations
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| 4 +1 | square/rectangular function |
chris collister
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| 3 | oblong function |
Kiwiland Bear
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Change log
Jun 25, 2012 10:33: chris collister Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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chris collister
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square/rectangular function
These are standard functions in mathematics, and frequently encountered in electronics as periodic functions of time. Here it seems that just a single period is being used to define the shape. "Rectangular" is more general than "square".
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Note added at 23 mins (2012-06-13 10:02:05 GMT)
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FYI, in signal processing Fourier transforms are often conditioned by "boxcar" functions (mostly in US texts), with another definition of the rectngular multiplier being the "Heaviside" function. "Rectngular" is fine for your application. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxcar_function
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Note added at 27 mins (2012-06-13 10:05:59 GMT)
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Sorry, rectAngular! I should have said that the Heavised function is actually a "step" function, but superimposing a second time-shifted negative Heaviside on the first will create a rectangular function
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Note added at 43 mins (2012-06-13 10:22:26 GMT)
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I forgot the top-hat function....
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Note added at 23 mins (2012-06-13 10:02:05 GMT)
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FYI, in signal processing Fourier transforms are often conditioned by "boxcar" functions (mostly in US texts), with another definition of the rectngular multiplier being the "Heaviside" function. "Rectngular" is fine for your application. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxcar_function
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Note added at 27 mins (2012-06-13 10:05:59 GMT)
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Sorry, rectAngular! I should have said that the Heavised function is actually a "step" function, but superimposing a second time-shifted negative Heaviside on the first will create a rectangular function
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Note added at 43 mins (2012-06-13 10:22:26 GMT)
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I forgot the top-hat function....
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oblong function
Not disputing the other answer but I think this is another possibility too. See for ex (free) abstract at:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01650114950...
and note how it uses "oblong" in the same sentence with trapezoidal and triangular functions.
p.s. And btw, I suspect that correct word in English would probably be the "form" or "shape" rather than "function".
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01650114950...
and note how it uses "oblong" in the same sentence with trapezoidal and triangular functions.
p.s. And btw, I suspect that correct word in English would probably be the "form" or "shape" rather than "function".
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chris collister
: No, not "shape"; "function" is correct, and used on a daily basis by mathematicians and the like
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Oh yes, among math pros for sure, but the text was about some mechanical appliances where the "shape" of some tool sounds much better than its...function??? Besides, I notice that you used that word (shape) in your explanation yourself.
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