starts the charge - What is the German translation? German translators help technical German translators with the translation of starts the charge

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225 months ago

Herwig (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	English > German
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	starts the charge
Context:	pulling the trigger starts the
Keywords:	Laserwaffen/vielleicht löst de

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225 months ago

wrote:

lost den Laserstrahl aus

My comment:

Betatigen des Abzugs lost lost den Laserstrahl aus

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225 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de wrote:

..:wird der Schuss / der Strahl ausgelöst

My comment:

Durch Betätigen des Abzugs...

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225 months ago

Charles Warcup wrote:

loest die Ladung aus

My comment:

I think it is very likely that the sense of charge is 'Ladung' here, not 'angreifen, stuermen'. Still, it is a mystery to me how one can 'start' a 'charge', especially with a laser weapon. With a conventional weapon with explosive ammunition I would assume that start is meant in the sense of 'set off'. Hence my literal translation, even though it doesn't seem to make much sense.

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225 months ago

Charles Warcup wrote:

Come to think of it, I suppose the word 'charge' is being used here to describe the effective energy output of the laser in analogy to the charge/Ladung of a conventional weapon. In that case Ladung is a rather unhappy translation - perhaps 'Energieausstoss', 'Lichtausstoss' or similar would be better: ... loest den Energieausstoss ...

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