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Marktbegleiter
Herz-Kreislauf- and Gefäß-System
May 9, 2006 16:18
18 yrs ago
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Deutsch term

einschenkliges Trapez

Deutsch > Englisch Rechts- und Patentwesen Immobilien/Grundstücke Shape of plot / Form eines Grundstücks
Description of a property - the shape of the plot is given as "einschenkliges Trapez". While I can surely imagine how it looks like, I am currently at a loss as regards an appropriate (UK) English term.

MTIA for your help!
Steffen
Proposed translations (Englisch)
3 roughly trapezium-shaped
2 +1 one-sided trapezoid

Discussion

Steffen Walter (asker) May 9, 2006:
@ Brie - what I had in mind from the beginning ... ... was the "right-angled trapezium" right in the centre of this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Quadrilateral_hierarchy.p...

Proposed translations

2 Stunden
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roughly trapezium-shaped

or "roughly trapezoid" is what I would use in English without being able to see a plan at least. A bit of a copout I know, but a one-legged trapezium sounds like a gag from an old Pete and Dud* show (*Cook and Moore). An old Bauingenieur colleague of mine used to describe the shape of any plot of land as "(roughly) polygonal"...
Note from asker:
Oh yes, this strange "one-legged" or "single-legged" thing was out of the question immediately.
What I imagined was a "right-angled trapezium" as shown @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Quadrilateral_hierarchy.png
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you, Alec and Brie. I chose the easy way out in this case. "
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one-sided trapezoid

Es freut mich, dass du dir das vorstellen kannst, weil ich es mir gar nicht vorstellen kann, auch wenn ich dafür ein Bild aufgetrieben habe ... weiß auch gar nicht, wie das funktionieren soll!

http://ldsg.snippets.org/ALSR/1s9t.html

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Note added at 4 hrs (2006-05-09 20:55:27 GMT)
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Hmmm ... wenn du meinst ... aber ich sehe keinen Anhaltspunkt dafür, dass "einschenklig" gleich "rechtwinklig" ist. Und zu trapezium/trapezoid bitte http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Trapezium.html beachten. Aber du wolltest ja BE.
Peer comment(s):
agree Ingeborg Gowans (X)
1 Stunde
Danke, Ingeborg
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