May 21, 2015 00:54
8 yrs ago
Russian term

числовая характеристика

Russian to English Science Mathematics & Statistics
По таблице Мак-Креди находят вероятное число, соответствующее полученной цифровой характеристике (в нашем случае 13), умножают его на разведение, которому соответствует первая цифра числовой характеристики (в данном примере – 10-6).

Proposed translations

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numerical characteristic

'numerical indicator/value' should also be acceptable as long as it's clear what it refers to.
Peer comment(s):

agree cyhul
18 mins
Thanks
agree Donald Jacobson : Some dictionaries just use the term "character" for this, but your response is clearer
1 hr
Thanks. Character would mean one digit. And here it's obviously a number
agree Jack Doughty
3 hrs
Thank you
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combination of positives

Yes, I know this isn't a literal translation :-) But the source text is http://dokipedia.ru/print/5148418 and it is dealing with a "5 vials per dilution,
most probable number MPN table" (original source McCready but much expanded by Cochran, deMan ...). The first column (Числовая характеристика наличия микроорганизмов) contains 3 combinations of the integers [1, 5] - these are not integers in [300, 555], as might be expected.

For a corresponding table in English see e.g.
http://classes.midlandstech.edu/carterp/courses/bio225/chap0...

http://biochemonitoring.it/PROCEDURE.htm

or many others.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2015-05-21 06:36:55 GMT)
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I meant [0,5] of course.

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Note added at 10 hrs (2015-05-21 11:49:29 GMT)
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"character" here is, of course, a single digit from 0..5.
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