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vida útil

English translation: useful life

15:29 Sep 29, 2007
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Other / nada específico
Portuguese term or phrase: vida útil
É a durabilidade de algo, de um produto. Por exemplo, os refrigeradores atuais têm vida útil de 05 anos.
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English translation:useful life
Explanation:
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Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 08:50
Grading comment
thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +14useful life
Robert Forstag
4 +3Service life
veratek
5lifetime
Joon Oh


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +14
useful life


Explanation:
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Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 08:50
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 44
Grading comment
thanks!
Notes to answerer
Asker: thanks!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vania de Souza
6 mins
  -> Obrigado, Vania.
agree  Steven Capsuto
20 mins
  -> Thank you, Steven.
agree  Sormane Gomes: Crazy busy here :)
20 mins
  -> Thank you, Sormane. (I haven't seen you in a long time!)
agree  Amy Duncan (X): For other products like food, etc., it would be "shelf life"
20 mins
  -> Definitely. Thank you, Amy.
agree  Raquel Correia
45 mins
  -> Obrigado, Raquel.
agree  Humberto Ribas: certo Amy
1 hr
  -> Obrigado, Humberto.
agree  Norbert Hermann
3 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Hermann.
agree  Erik Bry
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, Erik.
agree  Paul Dixon: Yes, indeed.
6 hrs
  -> Thank you, Paul.
agree  Rachel Fell: http://www.northwestern.edu/equipment-inventory/propertycode...
8 hrs
  -> Thank you, Rachel.
agree  R. Alex Jenkins
8 hrs
  -> Thank you, Richard.
agree  Cristina Santos
8 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Cristina.
agree  Ryszard Matuszewski
15 hrs
agree  Leonardo Hermes
4103 days
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Service life


Explanation:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A product's service life is its expected lifetime, or the acceptable period of use in service. It is the time that any manufactured item can be expected to be 'serviceable' or supported by its originating manufacturer.

Expected service life consists of business policy, using tools and calculations from maintainability and reliability analysis. Service life is a unique commitment made by the item's manufacturer and is usually specified as a median. Actual service life is the maximal recorded life of a product.

Service life is different from a predicted life, or MTTF/MTFB (Mean Time to Failure/Mean Time Between Failures). Predicted life is useful such that a manufacturer may estimate, by hypothetical modeling and calculation, a general rule for which it will honor warranty claims, or planning for mission fulfillment. The difference between service life and predicted life is most clear when considering mission time and reliability in comparison to MTBF and service life.

For example: A missile system can have a mission time of less than one minute, a service life of 20 years, active MTBF of 20 minutes, dormant MTBF of 50 years and a reliability of .999999.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-09-29 18:23:09 GMT)
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other options:

(product) life cycle/span



veratek
Brazil
Local time: 09:50
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 19

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Norbert Hermann
41 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  Paula Pereira
19 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  craigs
3 days 1 hr
  -> Thanks.
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
lifetime


Explanation:
empresas usam muito este termo.

Joon Oh
Brazil
Local time: 09:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in KoreanKorean, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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