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English translation: understanding

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English term or phrase:understanding the behaviour of weaponry and explosions.
Selected answer:understanding
Entered by: Jennifer Levey

10:25 Oct 19, 2022
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Military / Defense
English term or phrase: understanding the behaviour of weaponry and explosions.
Hello everyone,

From the TV series Abandoned Engineering, Season 4, Episode 3.

Two people are talking about the same place.

Speaker 1: The architecture of the buildings is highly unusual, but very specific. They were created explicitly for the purpose of understanding the behaviour of weaponry and explosions.

Speaker 2: This is a place designed so that if the pillars are blown up, the roof drops down and clamps all of the explosion and debris down into the ground.

I don't think understand is used in its usual sense here.

Something tells me that "They were created explicitly for the purpose of understanding the behaviour of weaponry and explosions." means basically the same as "a place designed so that if the pillars are blown up, the roof drops down and clamps all of the explosion and debris down into the ground."

But it's just my interpetation.

It's about these buildings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orford_Ness&oldid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orford_Ness&oldid...

Thank you.
Mikhail Korolev
Local time: 13:40
understanding
Explanation:
As explained here:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/orford-ness-national-nature...
the pagodas were purpose-built facilities for testing the components of nuclear weapons.

"... built to carry out environmental tests on the atomic bomb. These tests were designed to mimic the rigours to which a weapon might be subjected before detonation, and included vibration, extremes of temperature, shocks and G forces.

"Although no nuclear material was said to be involved, the high explosive initiator was present and a test failure might have resulted in a catastrophic explosion. For this reason the tests were controlled remotely and the huge labs were designed to absorb and dissipate an explosion in the event of an accident."

In other words, 'understanding' is used by Speaker 1 in the conventional sense of 'understanding/discovering what happens when/if...', in certain circumstances.
Selected response from:

Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 06:40
Grading comment
Thank you, Jennifer.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +2understanding
Jennifer Levey


Discussion entries: 3





  

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39 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
understanding


Explanation:
As explained here:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/orford-ness-national-nature...
the pagodas were purpose-built facilities for testing the components of nuclear weapons.

"... built to carry out environmental tests on the atomic bomb. These tests were designed to mimic the rigours to which a weapon might be subjected before detonation, and included vibration, extremes of temperature, shocks and G forces.

"Although no nuclear material was said to be involved, the high explosive initiator was present and a test failure might have resulted in a catastrophic explosion. For this reason the tests were controlled remotely and the huge labs were designed to absorb and dissipate an explosion in the event of an accident."

In other words, 'understanding' is used by Speaker 1 in the conventional sense of 'understanding/discovering what happens when/if...', in certain circumstances.

Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 06:40
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you, Jennifer.

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