sizing

English translation: determining the size required

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English term or phrase:sizing
Selected answer:determining the size required
Entered by: asia20002

16:10 Aug 5, 2015
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Tech/Engineering - Engineering: Industrial
English term or phrase: sizing
In a questionnaire titled SIZING REQUEST QUESTIONNAIRE

The questionnaire concerns filtering by cake filtration mechanism.

It also includes the expressions:
Values to be used for sizing from test / experience:
Test report capacity
Sizing capacity
Auxiliary sizing requested

Does it mean "configuration"or something similar? There are some pages with "sizing request" on the Internet.

Thank you for help.
asia20002
Poland
Local time: 15:18
determining the size required
Explanation:
'size' of course in the broadest sense — not just the physical dimensions, but for example, the cross-sectional area (i.e. current carrying capacity) of a conductor, etc.

So sometimes this can be calculated, using formulæ that are standard in the industry; or soemtimes it may be based on empirical experience: "Last time we made it 10 cm and it broke, so this time we'd better make it 20 cm!"

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Note added at 43 minutes (2015-08-05 16:53:19 GMT)
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Well, it all depends on what the actual 'capaity' means in your wider document — you haven't given us much context to work from!

It could mean the 'capacity' (= volume) of a container; or then again, it might means the 'capacity' in terms of output (so many parts per hour, etc.); or then again, it could even mean some other capacity, like 'current-carrying capacity'?

My understanding is that there may be a difference between the theoreticl capaicty, as planned during the sizing operation, and the actual capacity, as observed during testing; but of course other scenarios are also possible.

So I would understand 'sizing capacity' as being 'the capacity according to the design process used to determine the size'

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Note added at 56 minutes (2015-08-05 17:06:25 GMT)
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Right, so that's a big help, we now know what KIND of capacity is involved; I don't think it changes the underlying meaning of 'sizing', though: it seems to me what they may be highlighting here is any potential discrepancy between design (= sizing) capacity and actual measured (= tested) capacity.
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Tony M
France
Local time: 15:18
Grading comment
Thank you a lot for help.
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determining the size required


Explanation:
'size' of course in the broadest sense — not just the physical dimensions, but for example, the cross-sectional area (i.e. current carrying capacity) of a conductor, etc.

So sometimes this can be calculated, using formulæ that are standard in the industry; or soemtimes it may be based on empirical experience: "Last time we made it 10 cm and it broke, so this time we'd better make it 20 cm!"

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Note added at 43 minutes (2015-08-05 16:53:19 GMT)
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Well, it all depends on what the actual 'capaity' means in your wider document — you haven't given us much context to work from!

It could mean the 'capacity' (= volume) of a container; or then again, it might means the 'capacity' in terms of output (so many parts per hour, etc.); or then again, it could even mean some other capacity, like 'current-carrying capacity'?

My understanding is that there may be a difference between the theoreticl capaicty, as planned during the sizing operation, and the actual capacity, as observed during testing; but of course other scenarios are also possible.

So I would understand 'sizing capacity' as being 'the capacity according to the design process used to determine the size'

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Note added at 56 minutes (2015-08-05 17:06:25 GMT)
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Right, so that's a big help, we now know what KIND of capacity is involved; I don't think it changes the underlying meaning of 'sizing', though: it seems to me what they may be highlighting here is any potential discrepancy between design (= sizing) capacity and actual measured (= tested) capacity.

Tony M
France
Local time: 15:18
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Thank you a lot for help.
Notes to answerer
Asker: I still have a problem with "sizing capacity". I understand that "sizing" is an activity and in this expression a noun would be better.

Asker: I have here in a different part (Process Information) Capacity of dry solids, Capacity of Slurry, the units are t D.S./ h and m³ / h and then in the part Values to be used for sizing from test / experience: Test report capacity and Sizing capacity and the unit in the both is kg D.S./m²h. D.S. means dry solids.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Terry Richards
13 hrs
  -> Thanks, Terry!

agree  Lubosh Hanuska
1 day 12 hrs
  -> Thanks, webguru!
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