pedagos de fios

English translation: pieces of wire

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Portuguese term or phrase:pedagos de fios
English translation:pieces of wire
Entered by: Michael Powers (PhD)

14:05 Nov 13, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Metrology / Brasil
Portuguese term or phrase: pedagos de fios
Dispondo de pedagos de fios e 3 resistores de mesma resistäncia, foram montadas as conexões apresentadas abaixo. Dentre essas, aquela que apresenta a maior resistência elétrica entre seus terminais é:
Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 02:04
pieces of wires
Explanation:
There is no word "pedago" - it is highly likely that this text has been OCRed, and the OCR program turned "ç" into "g". It also gave "resistäncia" for what should obviously be "resistência".
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Marcio Pontes
Local time: 03:04
Grading comment
Muito obrigado, Marcio e Tobias - Mike
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Summary of answers provided
5 +7pieces of wires
Marcio Pontes


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +7
*pedaços de fios
pieces of wires


Explanation:
There is no word "pedago" - it is highly likely that this text has been OCRed, and the OCR program turned "ç" into "g". It also gave "resistäncia" for what should obviously be "resistência".

Marcio Pontes
Local time: 03:04
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 3
Grading comment
Muito obrigado, Marcio e Tobias - Mike

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  lynnsalt: exactly
6 mins

agree  Airton J Souza: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110904052515AA...
21 mins

agree  Dr Lofthouse
27 mins

agree  Daniel Tavares: Yes. I have seem "ç" taken by "g" several times.
35 mins

agree  airmailrpl: pedaços de fios
2 hrs

agree  Antonio Barros
2 hrs

neutral  T o b i a s: pieces of wire
3 hrs

neutral  Mark Robertson: Tobias has it.
6 hrs

agree  Lidia Carney
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