Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Abweichend oder ergänzend

English translation:

Alternatively, or in addition

Added to glossary by Esther Park
Feb 22, 2018 12:16
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German term

Abweichend oder ergänzend

Non-PRO German to English Tech/Engineering Computers: Systems, Networks Data
Abweichend oder ergänzend kann das System die Daten zum Abruf (pull) bereitstellen.

Abweichend oder ergänzend from what?? The context is not really helpful. Previous sentence: Die Rohdaten werden an den zentralen Datenspeicher übertragen.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +5 Alternatively, or in addition
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Discussion

Björn Vrooman Feb 22, 2018:
@rehtsep "The context is not really helpful."

The context is right there! It's an ellipsis of "davon oder dazu," as in Abweichend davon oder ergänzend dazu (=dem Übertragen der Rohdaten an den zentralen Datenspeicher.)

There's nothing missing here.

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Proposed translations

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Selected

Alternatively, or in addition

The raw data is transmitted to to central server. Alternatively (to transmitting it), or as well as, the system can also prepare the data for a pull request (presumably from the server).
Peer comment(s):

agree Kim Metzger
19 mins
agree philgoddard
40 mins
agree Michael Martin, MA
13 hrs
agree Deepa Jose
13 hrs
agree Darin Fitzpatrick : I would omit the comma for better flow, but this is the right construction.
18 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you! This was truly a brain-dead moment on my part. But in my defense, NO online dictionary lists alternatively as a translation for abweichend. I checked leo, dict.cc, and ProZ of course. I think that's odd! It was so obvious as soon as I saw this answer. "
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