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Engineering/Science terms
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Engineering/Science terms

Engineering/Science terms

(OP)
"IT HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN"...
I didn't look up the original reference.

"A DEFINITE TREND IS EVIDENT"...
These data are practically meaningless.

"WHILE IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE DEFINITE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS"...
An unsuccessful experiment but I still hope to get it published.

"THREE OF THE SAMPLES WERE CHOSEN FOR DETAILED STUDY"...
The other results didn't make any sense.

"TYPICAL RESULTS ARE SHOWN"...
This is the prettiest graph.

"THESE RESULTS WILL BE IN A SUBSEQUENT REPORT"...
I might get around to this sometime, if pushed/funded.

"IN MY EXPERIENCE"...
Once.

"IN CASE AFTER CASE"...
Twice.

"IN A SERIES OF CASES"...
Thrice.

"IT IS BELIEVED THAT"...
I think.

"IT IS GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT"...
A couple of others think so, too.

"CORRECT WITHIN AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE" ...
Wrong.

"ACCORDING TO STATISTICAL ANALYSIS"...
Rumour has it.

"A STATISTICALLY-ORIENTED PROJECTION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE FINDINGS"...
A wild guess.

"A CAREFUL ANALYSIS OF OBTAINABLE DATA"...
Three pages of notes were obliterated when I knocked over a mug of tea.

"IT IS CLEAR THAT MUCH ADDITIONAL WORK WILL BE REQUIRED BEFORE A COMPLETE  UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PHENOMENON OCCURS"...
I don't understand it.

"AFTER ADDITIONAL STUDY BY MY COLLEAGUES"...
They don't understand it either.

"THANKS ARE DUE TO JOE BLOTZ FOR ASSISTANCE WITH THE EXPERIMENT AND TO CINDY ADAMS FOR VALUABLE DISCUSSIONS"...
Mr. Blotz did the work and Ms. Adams explained to me what it meant.

"A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT AREA FOR EXPLORATORY STUDY"...
A totally useless topic selected by my committee.

RE: Engineering/Science terms

.... from Metal Progress 71, 75 (1957).

A.

RE: Engineering/Science terms

funny anyway smile

Cyril Guichard
Mechanical Engineer Consultant
France

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(OP)
I must admit I wasn't around in '57 to see the original and therefore plead ignorance.

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Your wild guess now would be simply "SWAG".

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It's stood the test of time remarkably well.  Other favourites from the same article:

"IT MIGHT BE ARGUED THAT...."
I have such a good answer to this objection that I shall now raise it,

"... ACCIDENTALLY STRAINED DURING MOUNTING"
...dropped on the floor.

"... HANDLED WITH EXTREME THROUGHOUT THE EXPERIMENTS"
... not dropped on the floor.

"THE W-Pb SYSTEM WAS CHOSEN AS ESPECIALLY SUITABLE TO SHOW THE PREDICTED BEHAVIOUR..."
The fellow in the next lab had some already made up.

A.

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Sorry - more "care" needed in my last.

A.

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Back in the days at Harley, we had an issue to respond to and the engineer responsible was on vacation. Within his report text was the abbreviation ...wrt... which no one had ever seen before.
One of the guys managed to reach him by phone only to learn it meant "with respect to" ... this was met with a loud "Oh DUH!" from most of us.

A few months later one of the suck-up junior managers announced in a staff meeting that they should "couch" the topic. Couch, chair, Table.... he knew it was furniture.

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- by Albert Einstein

RE: Engineering/Science terms

(OP)
On similar lines, has anyone got away with quoting "FITA" as an information source?

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I have led a sheltered life. What is FITA.

Does anyone use "anecdotal evidence". I found out that it means unreliable, yet I have seen and heard it used to justify several serious decisions.

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(OP)
Finger In The Air.

I've actually heard of someone in the retail business using it as a source for field info and getting away with it.  I was just wondering if anyone here had slipped it by their local pointy-haired boss.

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had some success with the TLAR test.  

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SomptingGuy and zeusfaber,

I gave both of you guys little purple stars!  Even if it's old, it's still good enough to cut and paste and send around the office.  

BTW, what's TLAR?

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"

RE: Engineering/Science terms

"that looks about right"

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At a plant I used to work at in a "Southern US State", a lot of the "design" and construction was done in one step using the TLAR method.

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ivymike (Mechanical)
DMcGrath (Civil/Environme)
This is uncanny. Today I was working with a 78 year old ex Convair engineer, and he was talking about designing aircraft parts using that system.(tlar)Scary ! eh.
B.E.

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TLAR reminds me of a truck I used to see parked on campus when I was at school, owned by one of the local contractors:

"It'll Do---Casual Construction Company"

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...like hiring a diesel fitter to do your plumbing...  he rummages about in his toolkit for a while, produces some old parts, solders them in place, and declares "diesel fitter!"


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GIVE ME A MINUTE - Usually about 10-15 minutes.
GIVE ME 5 MINUTES - Usually about 20 min to 1/2 hour.
Give ME 1/2 HOUR - Usually about 1-2 hours.
GIVE ME AN HOUR - Usually about 1 hour.

"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."   
Albert Einstein
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Ashereng,

By averaging your conversions (10-15 minutes to 12.5 minutes, for example) your time scale has a very good quadratic fit, so "give me 76 minutes" will translate into "instantly".

Well, somebody had to do the math....

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Thank goodness I never say give me 76 minutes. Otherwise, I'd be late!!!  bugeyed

"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."   
Albert Einstein
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