Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

Massima Freccia

English translation:

maximum sag

Added to glossary by Howard Sugar
Jul 29, 2010 05:55
13 yrs ago
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Italian term

Massima Freccia

Italian to English Tech/Engineering Energy / Power Generation
This concerns stringing conductors in a tender.
One is supposed to carry out a verification of "dei tiri sui sostegni"

La verifica sarà fatta partendo dalla condizione di Massima Freccia alla temperatura di regime del conduttore
I have also seen a formula which speaks of how to calculated determinazione delle frecce massime e minime, per il controllo delle distanze dei conduttori stessi dal suolo" and to determinare la tensione di posa (o di tesatura) del conduttore (tiro e freccia) ad una temperatura prestabilita. It sounds like

I understand the testing procedure in general and suppose that it might be something like "maximum sag"
Proposed translations (English)
4 maximum sag
4 maximum deflection

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maximum sag

You were right - it is 'maximum sag'.

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Note added at 8 mins (2010-07-29 06:04:43 GMT)
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I think in Italian to be more clear it's the sag of an electrical line it's called freccia apparente.

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Note added at 14 mins (2010-07-29 06:10:25 GMT)
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[BTW more technically speaking it's actually 'dip' - but it's probably not used often]
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maximum deflection

try this
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