Prestaciones

English translation: performance

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Spanish term or phrase:Prestaciones
English translation:performance
Entered by: Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)

10:55 Jul 30, 2010
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Engineering: Industrial
Spanish term or phrase: Prestaciones
Hola

Me gustaría saber si en el siguiente contexto puedo traducir prestaciones como "resources" y darle el sentido de de "services". Aparece en el siguiente contexto:

"Verificar las prestaciones del sistema de extinción de incendios desarrollado frente a ensayos de fuego en condiciones de uso final bajo bastidor de trenes de Metro de última generación."

muchas gracias, un saludo
Ester G-D
Local time: 01:28
performance
Explanation:
Una opción. Saludos
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Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
Spain
Local time: 01:28
Grading comment
Muchas gracias!
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3 +6performance
Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
4features
Maria Elena Martinez


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
features


Explanation:
una posbilidad

A Spanish-English Dictionary (Granada University, Spain), 10.5 prestación
= benefit, capability, delivery, facility, feature, feature, value, functionality, provision, service.
Ex: Community education is another form of outreach that aims to educate the public about the availability of services that can help them, about their entitlement to benefits, or about their rights under the law.
Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS contains a so-called 'help' capability.
Ex: Entry of number '21' reverses the present delivery status.
Ex: Apart from this additional facility Double-KWIC indexes have most of the facilities, features and drawbacks of KWIC and KWOC indexes.
Ex: Another way of doing this search is to use the lateral searching feature.
Ex: Electronic Maildrop is an online document ordering feature, where documents can be ordered from various suppliers.
Ex: This stop list is input to the computer before indexing can commence, and is a list of the words which appear in text which have no value as access words in an index.
Ex: This article describes the functionality of CARL software for this purpose, loads a brief rundown of data bases, and gives the criteria for selecting data bases.
Ex: Some school libraries are becoming involved in life-long learning but local government and public libraries must take responsibility for provisions for this.
Ex: 'All aboard the orientation express' is a programme to introduce children to the services provided by the library and teach them to use the microfiche catalogue.


Maria Elena Martinez
Netherlands
Local time: 01:28
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
performance


Explanation:
Una opción. Saludos

Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
Spain
Local time: 01:28
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 88
Grading comment
Muchas gracias!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Raoul COLIN (X): I would say that the system performance is being checked during testing (ensayos)
10 mins
  -> Gracias rcolin

agree  Cinnamon Nolan: In this context, this is the correct interpretation.
45 mins
  -> Gracias Cinnamon

agree  Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral: maybe performanceS
1 hr
  -> Gracias Antonio

agree  philgoddard: No, performance in the singular.
3 hrs
  -> Gracias philgoddard

agree  Rafael Molina Pulgar
5 hrs
  -> Gracias Rafa

agree  Christine Walsh: Yes, singular
16 hrs
  -> Gracias Christine
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