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sovraimposte

English translation: superimposed

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Italian term or phrase:sovraimposte
English translation:superimposed

08:12 Dec 15, 2011
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2011-12-18 15:54:07 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


Italian to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / Wind turbines
Italian term or phrase: sovraimposte
Vengono utilizzati scaricatori di sovratensione installati in prossimità dell'interruttore automatico principale per la protezione dalle fulminazioni dirette...
Vengono inoltre installati scaricatori adatti per sovratensioni transitorie sovraimposte alla tensione di comando lato generatore del convertitore e in prossimità del generatore stesso.

I need help with the word "sovraimposte" here. Thanks.
Juliet Halewood (X)
Local time: 10:26
superimposed
Explanation:
This is about superimposed transitory overvoltage conditions; I think a literal translation would work well here. A google search for "superimposed voltage", unquoted, turns up about 3.7M hits; the double quoted phrase turns up about 21.4K hits.
Selected response from:

Michael Brennen
Local time: 03:26
Grading comment
Thanks Michael, I think this is it - even "superimposed on the control voltage" turns up 117k ghits.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1superimposed
Michael Brennen
4overlaid
Gian


  

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superimposed


Explanation:
This is about superimposed transitory overvoltage conditions; I think a literal translation would work well here. A google search for "superimposed voltage", unquoted, turns up about 3.7M hits; the double quoted phrase turns up about 21.4K hits.

Michael Brennen
Local time: 03:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 14
Grading comment
Thanks Michael, I think this is it - even "superimposed on the control voltage" turns up 117k ghits.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Kisic
3 hrs
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overlaid


Explanation:

www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Relaxation.htm - Traduci questa pagina


Any rejection of tensions, be they muscular or emotional, creates yet another tension overlaid on the first. So if we consider ourselves to be bad or weak, ...


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www.archivefire.net/.../ivakhiv-on-nature-and-... - Traduci questa pagina


9 May 2011 – The world might be imagined as a web held together through oppositions, force fields of tension overlaid against each other into a delicate

Gian
Italy
Local time: 10:26
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 223

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Kate Chaffer: How is relaxation related to electrical voltage?
2 hrs
  -> nessun nesso; solo l'uso del verbo
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