Mar 14, 2019 10:40
5 yrs ago
Swedish term

passmån

Swedish to English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering Construction
Fortfarande fanns en ""passmån"" för att inrymma tillkommande avvikelser från dimension, form och riktning.

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allowance

160 hits for your term -- try to find a definition. Seems pretty 'variable' including in your text. Since you're talking about tolerance, you seem to want something else. But your term seems to be misused here.

Search 'allowance' + 'dimension' and find some reading, including at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allowance_(engineering)

No need for two words to describe 'allowance,' esp. in your context.

"A tolerance is the limit of acceptable unintended deviation from a nominal or theoretical dimension. Therefore, a pair of tolerances, upper and lower, defines a range within which an actual dimension may fall while still being acceptable.

In contrast, an allowance is a planned deviation from the nominal or theoretical dimension."
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agree Christopher Schröder
32 mins
Thanks, Chris!
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fitting allowance

Gullberg
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6 days

clearance

Tolerance is tolerance.
Passmån is an amount available for one thing to fit through another. It's called clearance in the construction industry.
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