Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

Conversão de medidas

English translation:

need to change (,) for (.)

Added to glossary by airmailrpl
Nov 23, 2009 01:11
14 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

Conversão de medidas

Portuguese to English Tech/Engineering Engineering (general)
Estou vertendo um texto de aparelho de ar condicionado do português para o inglês e em determinado ponto aparece o seguinte:

CONSUMO DE ENERGIA (kWh/mês) 22.3
(Com base nos resultados do ciclo
normalizado pelo INMETRO, de 1 hora
por dia por mês)

Capacidade total de refrigeração (kW) 3,51
(BTUh) (12.000)

Eficiência energética
A Plena Carga (quanto maior, melhor) 3,31

Mas eles estão pedindo para converter os números para o inglês. Gostaria de saber como posso fazer isso?
Essas medidas não são as mesmas que as inglesas, isto é, BTUH, kW?
Como posso convertê-las?

Obrigado,

Sergio
Change log

Dec 7, 2009 08:49: airmailrpl Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

+2
5 hrs
Selected

need to change (,) for (.)

You need to change the commas to decimal points and vice versa

CONSUMO DE ENERGIA (kWh/mês) 22.3 - okay

Capacidade total de refrigeração (kW) 3,51 => 3.51

(BTUh) (12.000) => (BTUh) (12,000)

Eficiência energética
A Plena Carga (quanto maior, melhor) 3,31 => 3.31



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Note added at 14 days (2009-12-07 08:47:52 GMT) Post-grading
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and kwh/mes =kwh/month
Peer comment(s):

neutral Jennifer Levey : You are pointing out an inconsistency in the source text, not a problem of conversion/translation. All numbers here should have ',' in Portuguese and '.' in English.
4 hrs
changing (,) for (.) is part of the translation/conversion. You stated that no conversion is necessary!!
agree Flavia Martins dos Santos
6 hrs
agradecido
agree George C.
2 days 4 hrs
agradecido
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+1
41 mins

No conversion needed

The source text already has all the values in both Imperial ('English') and metric units where appropriate.

The only item where an Imperial unit is useful is the figure for BTUh, for which the text already has the values: (kW) 3,51 / (BTUh) (12.000).
Peer comment(s):

agree Leniel Maccaferri : :)
5 mins
disagree airmailrpl : need to change (,) for (.)
5 hrs
agree Spiridon : Agree totally
9 hrs
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+1
10 hrs

No conversion needed except for kwh/mes =kwh/month

All these units are standard units used by almost every one in the Metric
system
Peer comment(s):

agree airmailrpl : and changing (,) for (.)
5 hrs
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