Word of the Day: Alimentation
I was in a meeting this morning, and noticed that a calculator which was on the table had “Double Alimentation”.
I have no idea what alimentation is, or why having two of them in a calculator is a good thing.
The Wikipedia entry for alimentation describes the Human gastrointestinal tract. I’m sure there can’t be two of those in it.
According to Dictionary.com, it means:
noun
1. nourishment; nutrition.
2. maintenance; support.
3. addition to the volume of a glacial mass, chiefly by theaccumulation of ice, snow, or névé. Compare ablation ( def.2 ) .
Some sort of double nourishment. Tasty.
I guess it probably means that it has both a solar panel and a battery, but it’s a pretty odd way of saying so. I don’t know if it’s a funky overseas translation error, I didn’t see who made it (and I’m not going back to find out).
So, word of the day. Meaning nourishment (or possibly, power source if seen on calculators).
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You caught my attention on this one.
Do a French to English Translation.
DOUBLE ALIMENTATION translates to DOUBLE POWER
http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|DOUBLE%20ALIMENTATION
A google search for DOUBLE ALIMENTATION brought back alot of French sounding pages so I desided to run it through a translater an that’s what we got.