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insensitive adjustment

English translation: setting with reduced sensitivity

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English term or phrase:(relative) insensitive adjustment
Selected answer:setting with reduced sensitivity
Entered by: Tony M

07:47 Nov 26, 2014
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Engineering (general)
English term or phrase: insensitive adjustment
To avoid false alarms (for instant by upright truck exhaust pipes) a relative insensitive adjustment is needed，however on the contrary this implicates the lack of alarms with high wind speed.

My understanding of "insensitive" in this case is that the sensitivity is reduced to avoid false alarms.
Is there any other interpretation of "relative insensitive adjustment"?
Thank you for your help
leg4leg
Türkiye
Local time: 03:17
setting with reduced sensitivity
Explanation:
Yes, I believe your own interpretation is correct.

I am slightly puzzled by the use of 'relative' — normally I would have expected 'relatively', unless, for example, there are 2 adjustments 'normal' and 'relative insensitivity'. However, that doesn't change the underlying meaning, which is clear enough from your context, and as you have correctly described.
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Tony M
France
Local time: 02:17
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Thank you for your help!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +4setting with reduced sensitivity
Tony M
3 +1coarse adjustment
Jack Doughty


  

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39 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
relative insensitive adjustment
setting with reduced sensitivity


Explanation:
Yes, I believe your own interpretation is correct.

I am slightly puzzled by the use of 'relative' — normally I would have expected 'relatively', unless, for example, there are 2 adjustments 'normal' and 'relative insensitivity'. However, that doesn't change the underlying meaning, which is clear enough from your context, and as you have correctly described.

Tony M
France
Local time: 02:17
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 75
Grading comment
Thank you for your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis
3 mins
  -> Thanks, Charles!
agree  Didier Fourcot: What I udnerstand also, but English is questionable, "for instant"?
2 hrs
  -> Merci, Didier ! Yes, indeed — a common-enough error, even among native speakers, and typical of non-linguists ;-)
agree  B D Finch: I would be less generous about the errors in the source text. I don't believe it was written by a native speaker of English.
14 hrs
  -> Thanks, B! Yes, I do tend to agree that this was written by a non-native
agree  Phong Le
16 hrs
  -> Thanks, Phong Le!
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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
coarse adjustment


Explanation:
"To avoid false alarms (for instant by upright truck exhaust pipes) a relative insensitive adjustment is needed，however on the contrary this implicates the lack of alarms with high wind speed."

This is poor English. What I think it means is:

To avoid false alarms, (for instance due to upright exhaust pipes of trucks), a relatively coarse adjustment is needed. However, this implies that high wind speed will not cause alarms."

Coarse adjustment: quite a large one. the opposite is fine adjustment.


Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:17
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 86
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you for your help!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: I don't think that's really quite the same opposition here, Jack.
6 mins
agree  acetran
5 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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