Susana Budai (asker) Sep 13, 2010:

Hi Robin, thank you for your concern. It is explained in the IEEE document. You can find the link in Daniel's answer.

mediamatrix (X) Sep 13, 2010:

Tipos de presupuesto de pérdida PR y PRX? I'm sure your client knows best - after all, it's his text, not ours. But I fail to see how 'PR' ends up being an abbreviation for 'presupuesto de pérdida'. The English words for that concept would more likely have the initials 'B'udget or 'B'alance along with maybe 'L'oss or 'A'attenuation.

In most texts I've read on the subject, the 'P' refers to polarization (that same polarization which is 'dispersed' in 'P'MD) and 'PR' often refers to a 'p'olarization 'r'otator (rotador de polarización).
Clafification of the concept hidden behind PR in your author's document is critical to building a valid title for the table of characteristics.

Susana Budai (asker) Sep 13, 2010:

Thank you for your input. I need to leave the abbreviations in English according to my customer's request.

PR and PRX have been assigned by the author of the manual.

When translating the title into Spanish, I have trouble deciding about the order of the abbreviatons and simply request help in this sense. I know the translation of each abbreviation.

Thanks again.

mediamatrix (X) Sep 13, 2010:

What exactly are you looking for? Do you want to build a Spanish title using the proper Spanish abbreviations? If so, you should ask four separate questions, one for each English abbreviation.

Or:
Do you want to build a Spanish title which retains the English abbreviations, assuming your readers will understand? If so, this is not a 'terminology' question and should probably not be posted in Kudoz.

Or:
Do you want to build a Spanish title which spells out the full meaning of each abbreviation - in which case your title will be at least 10 times longer than the English title. And in this case, again, multiple terms require multiple Kudoz.

BTW, it is not strictly correct to say that PR/PRX equate to symmetric/asymmetric - The presence or absence of 'X' denotes the degree of symmetry; that leaves the meaning of 'PR' to be determined (3 options come to mind...), but we don't have enough context here to allow any degree of certainty.