Promille

English translation:

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German term or phrase:Promille
English translation:
Entered by: David Williams

11:35 Apr 29, 2016
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Railways
German term or phrase: Promille
Context:

"Der Bahnhof hat eine Gleisneigung von 10 Promille."

This is about the track inclination at a new railway station, but I cant find any reference to this using any of the common terms for Promille in combination with "track inclination".

* Sentence or paragraph where the term occurs: See above
* Target audience: Railway safety
* Country and dialect (source): German
* Country and dialect (target): British English
David Williams
Germany
Local time: 07:20
Explanation:
I would add simply the sign, for 2 reasons:
1. a number precedes it
2. the word is so rarely used in English that there is no spelling agreement, the word is spelt in many different ways..

See 1° link
A per mille[1][2][3] (from Latin per mīlle, "in each thousand"[4]), also spelled per mil,[4][1][5][6][2][7] per mill,[4][8][5][6][7][9] permil,[4] permill,[4] or permill

The term occurs so rarely in English that major dictionaries do not agree on the spelling or pronunciation even within a single dialect of English[10] and some major dictionaries such as Macmillan[11] and Longman[12] do not even contain an entry.

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Note added at 2 days20 hrs (2016-05-02 08:31:08 GMT) Post-grading
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"Promilleangaben werden meist durch das Promillezeichen ‰ kenntlich gemacht"
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promille

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille
"The sign is written ‰, which looks like a percent sign (%) with an extra zero in the divisor. It is included in the General Punctuation block of Unicode characters: U+2030 ‰ PER MILLE SIGN (HTML ‰ · ‰).[3] It is accessible in Windows using ALT+0137

EN Variants: per mille, per mil, per mill, permil, permill
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Inter-Tra
Italy
Local time: 07:20
Grading comment
Mille grazie!
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Summary of answers provided
51 in___
David Bumstead
3 +1per mille
Jan Truper
5 -1
Inter-Tra
3per mille
Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.


Discussion entries: 6





  

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per mille


Explanation:
please see link


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(slope)
Jan Truper
Germany
Local time: 07:20
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

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agree  Teresa Reinhardt
19 hrs
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per mille


Explanation:
Computers in Railways XI: Computer System Design and Operation in ...
https://books.google.at/books?isbn=1845641264
#s - ‎2008 - 867 Seiten - Transportation
Finally, the inclinations of the railway track are also plotted in Figure 4, scaled such that 0 on the y-axis means −10 per mille, and 1 means 10 per mille.

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Note added at 1 hr (2016-04-29 12:36:09 GMT)
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Per mille
Examples of common use include:
- legal limits of blood-alcohol content for driving a road vehicle in some countries: for example: 0.6‰ or 0.2‰.
- seawater salinity: for example: "the average salinity is 35‰".
- ***tunnel and railway gradients (in some countries in Europe)***
- birth and death rates
- baseball batting averages (colloquially)
- property taxation rates: the millage rate (U.S.) or mill rate (Canada)
- expressing stable-isotope ratios - for example: "δ13C was measured at −3.5‰"
- expressing costs for print and online advertisements which are commonly sold at cost per mille (CPM); this is the common unit for all banner and display advertising
- frequently used by email service providers to denominate the cost for 1,000 emails delivered as a cost per mille (CPM)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille

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Note added at 1 hr (2016-04-29 12:41:58 GMT)
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per mille = ‰

Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.
Austria
Local time: 07:20
Native speaker of: Italian
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1 in___


Explanation:
Per mille is a correct literal translation. However, in a British railway context, gradients are always stated in the form "1 in 100" or similar. In this case, "15.143 per mille" could be written as "15.143 in 1000", which gives 1 in 66 or so when simplified. See the web reference for an example of this method of gradient notation.


    Reference: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/10556.aspx
David Bumstead
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:20
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Asker: Ah, yes. Just like roads.

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Explanation:
I would add simply the sign, for 2 reasons:
1. a number precedes it
2. the word is so rarely used in English that there is no spelling agreement, the word is spelt in many different ways..

See 1° link
A per mille[1][2][3] (from Latin per mīlle, "in each thousand"[4]), also spelled per mil,[4][1][5][6][2][7] per mill,[4][8][5][6][7][9] permil,[4] permill,[4] or permill

The term occurs so rarely in English that major dictionaries do not agree on the spelling or pronunciation even within a single dialect of English[10] and some major dictionaries such as Macmillan[11] and Longman[12] do not even contain an entry.

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Note added at 2 days20 hrs (2016-05-02 08:31:08 GMT) Post-grading
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"Promilleangaben werden meist durch das Promillezeichen ‰ kenntlich gemacht"
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promille

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille
"The sign is written ‰, which looks like a percent sign (%) with an extra zero in the divisor. It is included in the General Punctuation block of Unicode characters: U+2030 ‰ PER MILLE SIGN (HTML ‰ · ‰).[3] It is accessible in Windows using ALT+0137

EN Variants: per mille, per mil, per mill, permil, permill


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille
    Reference: http://www.rapidtables.com/math/number/Per_mille.htm
Inter-Tra
Italy
Local time: 07:20
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Mille grazie!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.: Please see my Note added at 1 hr to my answer - with same link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille --> per mille = ‰
2 days 1 hr
  -> First I did not see it because I read your solution only, secondly you chose a word I chose the sign. Thirdly I added EN variants
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