Glossary entry

Dutch term or phrase:

een soort wasmachine voor 'wevers'

English translation:

a kind of washing machine for wafers

Added to glossary by Barend van Zadelhoff
Feb 1, 2020 12:06
4 yrs ago
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Dutch term

een soort wasmachine voor wevers

Not for points Dutch to English Tech/Engineering Engineering (general)
Hi,
Translating a description of equipment that is being developed for a cleanroom at research facilities. This is how they describe it, but I just want to be sure if 'wevers' is weavers in this case or if there is another term it refers to.
Thanks for your help!

**Nu zijn we bijvoorbeeld bezig met een soort wasmachine voor wevers, een apparaat bedoeld voor de Clean Room. Technisch heel uitdagend.**

(Sorry, that is all the context related to it!)
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Feb 7, 2020 14:24: Barend van Zadelhoff Created KOG entry

Feb 7, 2020 14:31: Barend van Zadelhoff changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/133080">Barend van Zadelhoff's</a> old entry - "een soort wasmachine voor wevers"" to ""a kind of washing machine for wafers""

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Proposed translations

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a kind of washing machine for wafers

It sounds the same but it is spelled differently:

wevers - wafers

Een apparaat voor de Cleanroom

‘Nu zijn we bijvoorbeeld bezig met een soort wasmachine voor wafers, een apparaat bedoeld voor de Cleanroom. Technisch heel uitdagend. Waar ik echt trots ben, als ik terugkijk op de afgelopen 30 jaar, is dat ik heb mogen meewerken aan de elektronica van de Twente Turbulent Taylor-Couette opstelling voor onderzoek naar lucht- en vloeistofstromingen. Een opstelling van drie bij drie bij drie meter, die nog steeds door promovendi wordt gebruikt.

https://www.utwente.nl/organisatie/werken-bij-de-ut/intervie...

wafer:

In electronics, a wafer (also called a slice or substrate)[1] is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon (c-Si), used for the fabrication of integrated circuits and, in photovoltaics, to manufacture solar cells. The wafer serves as the substrate for microelectronic devices built in and upon the wafer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_(electronics)

In de micro-elektronica is een wafer een dunne plak monokristallijn halfgeleidermateriaal, bijvoorbeeld silicium, waarop geïntegreerde schakelingen geconstrueerd worden door middel van dotering technieken van verschillende materialen (bijvoorbeeld door diffusie, ionenimplantatie, depositie of chemisch etsen). Wafers zijn dus zeer belangrijk in de fabricatie van halfgeleidermaterialen zoals geïntegreerde schakelingen, transistoren, diodes en passieve RLC circuits. Naast elektronische componenten worden ook mechanische componenten, zoals MEMS, op wafers gefabriceerd.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer



Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard : I shouldn't have voted this non-pro - I agree it's probably a typo.
4 hrs
No doubt about it, see first ref. = same context with the correct word. Also, wafers are used in cleanrooms for the production of integrated circuits/chips.
agree Kitty Brussaard : Het kan niet anders of dit moet het zijn. Goed speurwerk!
18 hrs
Yes, see first ref.: the exact same 2 sentences as the context provided, except for 'wevers'. Possibly we're dealing here with audiotranscription: a different word (wafers) pronounced the same as 'wevers'. Also, wafers are used in cleanrooms. See ref.
agree sindy cremer : Makes total sense.
2 days 18 hrs
Dank je, Sindy.
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Comment: "Thanks for your help! It was indeed, as you said, the wrong word - thanks for spotting it :)"
1 day 18 hrs

a kind of washing machine for weavers

wevers:weavers

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Note added at 1 day 18 hrs (2020-02-03 06:43:04 GMT)
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wever is not wafer

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Note added at 2 days 1 hr (2020-02-03 13:52:26 GMT)
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wafer can not wash in washing machine!
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Reference comments

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Reference:

wever

weaver = a person who engages in weaving fabric

So 'weaver' would not make sense as a translation.

That is, I don't see why a weaver needs a washing machine in a cleanroom:

A cleanroom or clean room is a facility ordinarily utilized as a part of specialized industrial production or scientific research, including the manufacture of pharmaceutical items, integrated circuits, CRT, LCD, OLED and microLED displays. Cleanrooms are designed to maintain extremely low levels of particulates, such as dust, airborne organisms, or vaporized particles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanroom

Perhaps a 'wever' is an instrument or part of an instrument used in the production of pharmaceutical items
/ integrated circuits / CRT / LCD / OLED / microLED displays.

Perhaps it is jargon.

Perhaps it is a spelling error
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