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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Field item

English answer:

equipment used in the field, including computers, machinery, measuring instruments, and so on

Added to glossary by Suzan Hamer
Apr 23, 2006 08:42
18 yrs ago
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English term

Field item

English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering bilancio
"Building Management Systems, plant controls, **field items** and monitoring equipment including Critical Alarm monitoring".
What do these field items refer to?
Thanks in advance.
Responses
1 +11 equipment
4 -2 Gizmos of that Domain.

Discussion

anok (X) (asker) Apr 23, 2006:
First of all, thank you all for your effort. Do you think it might also refer to an "electric field"? (In the sentence after this I have "field sensors").

Responses

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equipment

I would imagine this refers to equipment used in the field; machinery, measuring instruments, and so on, but I have not idea what exactly this equipment would be.

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Note added at 1 hr (2006-04-23 10:07:30 GMT)
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A Google search using "'field items" civil engineering" as search terms revealed a number of sites indicating different field items, ranging from computers to valves. The specific items vary according to the specific field and project.

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Note added at 1 hr (2006-04-23 10:10:39 GMT)
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Based on the Google search, I'd like to raise my confidence level to high . . . but don't know how.
Peer comment(s):
agree Dave Calderhead
36 mins
agree David Moore (X)
1 hr
agree Can Altinbay : Your confidence level should be high. After all, you're right!
2 hrs
agree William [Bill] Gray : I guess "field items" are equipment that may well normally be used in the office or laboratory, but is also useful to take into the field at times too. (in addition to normal outdoor equipment: monitors, plant controls, etc.
3 hrs
agree Ken Cox : In process control jargon, the field is everything peripheral to the (central) control unit or system, so 'field items' is a catch-all for everything used in the 'field' - e.g. sensors, transducers, network components, etc.
3 hrs
agree Karina Garcia Pedroche
3 hrs
agree Raging Dreamer
6 hrs
agree Asghar Bhatti
7 hrs
agree Michael Barnett
7 hrs
agree Isodynamia
12 hrs
agree Alfa Trans (X)
2 days 7 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you all!"
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2 hrs

Gizmos of that Domain.

thanx
Peer comment(s):
disagree Can Altinbay : I'm sorry, but I don't understand what that means./Thank you. I know what a gizmo is. Your suggestion however probably wouldn't help the asker, and is not appropriate in context. And we can do without your snide comments.
1 hr
Pursue this Link (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gismo)and u`ll understand.But remember when u don`t understand anything try not to pass value judgement about it./Anyhow.
disagree William [Bill] Gray : I agree with Can's comments here. I think "gizmos" would be a very poor translation in this instance.// I accept your correction(s), Morad. But I still think it would be a bad choice of word!
2 hrs
No case of translation in a monolingual pair occures, but some sort of interpretation!!!!/think just what ur wisdom enjoins.
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