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227 months ago

Barbara Tinschert  See profile asked this question:

Language pair:

German > English

Subject:

Technical / Engineering

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

weit ausfahrbar

Context:

Besen eines Kehrfahrzeuges

Keywords:

ausfahrbar = telescoping, aber

 

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227 months ago

  See profile wrote:

far reaching

My comment:

if you want to keep it simple

227 months ago

  See profile wrote:

telescopic

My comment:

Anything extendable can be aptly described as telescopic.

227 months ago

Charles Warcup  See profile wrote:

... can be extended to a considerable extent ...

My comment:

Depending on the wider context it may be possible to improve on 'to a considerable extent'. I would be sceptical of 'telescoping' unless the mechanism really involves a telescope-type extension (as opposed, for instance, to a Schwenkarm).

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227 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de  See profile wrote:

large telescoping ... / long extruding ...