Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Czech term or phrase:
závadovost
English translation:
error rate
Added to glossary by
Nicholas Miller
Oct 14, 2002 08:57
21 yrs ago
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Czech term
Czech Republic
Native English, MITI, MCIL
Native in: English 
Works in: Czech to English, Slovak to English, Czech, and 1 more.
závadovost
Czech to English
Tech/Engineering
aviation, engineering
Sorry - not much context, as its a header and not much explained. It concerns characteristics of aircraft and I think means roughly 'frequency of faults', but I need something nice and succint. Cheers
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Martin Janda
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error rate/frequency
If zavadovost is low, there are very few problems with the product. If it's high, the product is in fact defect-ridden. This is a typical tech/office speak used when Czechs want their text to have a "noble" zing.
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Note added at 2002-10-14 10:00:59 (GMT) Post-grading
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Czech dicos are either made - thoroughly and carefully - by language scientists, thus being in fact obsolete when published(as making such a dico takes much time), or compiled ad hoc from contributions of various translators, and then I am very carefull about their reliability. Also, it\'s much better business in Czechia to translate than compile dicos... Most of terminology should be in your head, the rest you can cautiously pick up in dicos...
Martin
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Note added at 2002-10-14 10:00:59 (GMT) Post-grading
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Czech dicos are either made - thoroughly and carefully - by language scientists, thus being in fact obsolete when published(as making such a dico takes much time), or compiled ad hoc from contributions of various translators, and then I am very carefull about their reliability. Also, it\'s much better business in Czechia to translate than compile dicos... Most of terminology should be in your head, the rest you can cautiously pick up in dicos...
Martin
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Great, thanks a lot. I just needed someone to put the right words together to make it sound right.
Why can't Czech dictionaries keep up-to-date with all these crazy neologisms? Did you meet this in your work or do you have better dictionaries?"
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