Deborah Mends (asker) Nov 15, 2005:

Live and learn. I didn't know I could search the Proz glossary by word stem! I hope I can be forgiven for asking Proz answerers to confirm for me that the elec/mech tech is indeed similar here, I get paranoid about translation traps... :-)

Tony M Nov 15, 2005:

David's taken the words out of my mouth; searching for word stems is most productive, i'm almost certain we've had 'd�tromperu' before, at least... And in this sort of case, I think you'll find the elec/mech technologies are quite similar

Deborah Mends (asker) Nov 15, 2005:

Thank you! I will start applying this right now as I continue to wade through this translation.

David Goward Nov 15, 2005:

Try searching for d�tromp* (making sure that the "whole words" and "exact phrase" boxes are blank).

Deborah Mends (asker) Nov 15, 2005:

Hi Dusty! I did indeed check this in the glossary before asking the question, but the only entry I found for "d�trompage" was for electronic/electrical vocabulary and the connection with specifically "goupille" (which the glossary told me was a "pin") didn't seem certain enough to guess that the electrical vocabulary could successfully combine with the mechanical vocabulary. Hence my asking for help translating the entire expression. Unless I still need to work on some technique in searching the glossary that escapes me? :-)

Tony M Nov 15, 2005:

As DG points out, this has been asked several times before, a look in the glossary should help you...