Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
ambient +5°C to 65°C
Spanish translation:
desde la temperature ambiente + 5º hasta 65º
English term
ambient +5°C to 65°C
Me encuentro traduciendo un manual de unas incubadoras de laboratorio y tengo una duda referente a la parte que habla de la temperatura.
La oración es la siguiente:
Temperature of the unit can be set from ambient +5°C to 65°C.
Yo entiendo que se puede establecer la temperatura desde 5°C hasta 65°C. Sin embargo, la palabra "ambient" es la que me complica. ¿Qué quiere decir ahí?.
Espero que puedan ayudarme,
Saludos.
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Proposed translations
Chile
Human-scale Globalization
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
desde la temperature ambiente + 5º hasta 65º
It means the unit can maintain a temperature between 'ambient temperture plus 5º' (minimum) and 65º (maximum). Eg: if the ambient temperature is 25º, the incubator can maintain any temperature between 30º and 65º.
The minimum is no doubt higher than the ambient because of system hysteresis, and/or the minmum power (heat) genertated by the heater. The maximum (65º) will be governed by safety considerations.
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cranesfreak
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Teresa Mozo
: that is!
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Sergio Campo
: That would be my reading.
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Diana Llorente
: totalmente,pero no te olvides de la C de las unidades, en mayúscula y sin punto, o sea "temperatura ambiente + 5ºC hasta 65ºC. contesto...es º C, unidad es "grados celsius", para los "kelvin sí es K sólo (unidad "Kelvin"), con espacio, punto OK pq frase
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Gracias - pero en realidad debe ser +5C (sin 'º' y sin espacio, puesto que se trata de la unidad 'Celsius'. Y las frases terminan con punto ... ¿o no?
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Juan Ripoll
: Es lo que dice la frase, si bien me quedan dudas sobre su significado, definitivamente dice eso.
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alexandra lozano
: estoy de acuerdo, en ingeniería como T ambiente se entienden 25ºC por convención
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Canada
Criminal, Civil and Immigration Law
Native in: English , Spanish (Variants: Latin American, Chilean, Standard-Spain, Mexican)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 3 more.
temperatura ambiente
www.zeca.it/pdf/en/cable_reels/cable_reels_signal_transmiss...
Etc. ...
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Leonardo Lamarche
: agree.
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Jennifer Levey
: It doesn't refer to ambient temp of operation, but the temperature it will maintain inside the incubator.
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Diana Llorente
: no! soy física y he trabajado en fábrica incubad y temperatura ambiente es la dellugar donde esté, nunca la de funcionamiento!!!! el ejemplo es erróeo, lo que quiere decir es que la máquina necesita una temperatura ambien x para funcionar bien
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Mexico
Responsabilidad y eficacia
Native in: Spanish , English
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
ambiente
Chemical Engineer
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Portuguese to Spanish
fijar temperatura 5 a 65°C sobre temperatura ambiente
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Jennifer Levey
: But an incubator would never be designed to maintain a temperature of, say, 100º when the ambient temperature is 35º.
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microbiological incubators could reach 65°C and even more up to 100°C (see Wikipedia incubators)
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La temperatura de la unidad podra predeterminarse entre temperaturas ambientes de +5C a 65C
Definición de ambient:
Keep the chemicals at an ambient temperature of 70°F.
the bright ambient light of the room
People shopped as ambient music played in the background.
Realmente es un cognado verdadero el cual tiene la misma definición que en Español. Pero cuídate de los cognados falsos.
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