Quality qualificatif

strolgen wrote:

This may not be the best group, but I'll give you my opinion anyway:

The best translation I can think of is "over-engineered" (note it's an
adjective, not a noun, so one would say "that shaft is over-engineered"
not "that shaft has over-engineering").

Over-engineering is usually applied to designing in too much stuff, or
too much strength into the stuff one uses, rather than making the
tolerances too tight.  In your specific case we'd probably say "the
tolerances are too tight".  This superfluity of words to describe what
ought to be a simple concept may be why Americans are good at making
really expensive stuff a few at a time, and the Japanese and other Asian
countries are good at making lots of stuff that's only as good as it has
to be and selling it cheap.

I hope this helps.

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This was helpful and emphasis exactly where come from the problem :
Engineering definition

strolgen wrote:

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I would probably say "overspecify" or "overspecified", depending on
whether a verb or adjective is wanted. There are other expressions.
"Gilding the lily" comes to mind. (That's a misquote of Shakespeare's
"Gilding fine gold or painting the lily.") "Dumb" also comes to mind.

Jerry
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Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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I like Gilding the lily ... I don't know what that's "mean" but look
funny


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Thanks again to both of you
I appreciate your answers
Stephan

strolgen wrote:

Gilding is to glue gold leaf to something.  Presumably a lily is already
beautiful enough, so gilding it is stupidly redundant.

At any rate "gilding the lily" in colloquial American (and probably
British) parlance means that you're over-doing it, expending time (and
possibly money) on an effort that's already done more than well enough.

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Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

Do you need to implement control loops in software?
"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" gives you just what it says.
See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html

you might try posting this to sci.lang.translation, a newsgroup used by
people who get paid to do translations. they take a strong interest in
getting it right.

vale,
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A widely used term in the process industries is 'giveaway', implying value
that is being given away because of overcompliance to specifications. It's a
noun, usage example: There is high giveaway on the propylene product (eg.
because the market purity spec is 99% and we're using more energy to
generate 99.5%).