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German-English translation?
From: Rick Emerson
Date: 1999 Jan 03, 15:47 EST
From: Rick Emerson
Date: 1999 Jan 03, 15:47 EST
I've come across a German word "Kimm" (also used as "die Strandkimm") in a German text on celestial navigation and I'm unable to come up with a good English translation for this word. The discussion involves measuring the angle between two lines. The first line is the observer to the top of a light house and the second line runs from the observer to a point directly under the base of the light house (which, in the text, conveniently is on an overhanging cliff) at the point where the water meets the beach. "Mit dem Sextanten wird dazu ganz einfach der Winkel "Spitze des Leuchtturms - Beobachter - Strandkrimm" gemessen." I tried an on-line dictionary that suggested "bilge" for a translation; that doesn't make much sense in this context. Rick S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= =-= TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send this message to majordomo@XXX.XXX: =-= =-= navigation =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=