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drill-down

Arabic translation: البحث المتدرج

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English term or phrase:drill-down
Arabic translation:البحث المتدرج
Entered by: Shazly

16:08 Jan 16, 2005
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Science - Ships, Sailing, Maritime
English term or phrase: drill-down
The term is in the last sentence of the following text:
A real-time traffic image of all vessels in the surveillance area is presented by tracks that are overlaid on navigation charts. This overlay can be from a single radar or a correlated picture
of several radars, transponders and underwater sensors. Each track is color coded for rapid
classification and can be further identified via a »drill-down« capability providing further details
on tracks of interest.
Waleed Mohamed
United Arab Emirates
Local time: 17:55
البحث المتدرج
Explanation:
تتبع التفاصيل
تركيز البحث

To drill down through a series of folders, for example, on a desktop means to go through the hierarchy of folders to find a specific file or to click through drop-down menus in a GUI. To drill down through a database is to access information by starting with a general category and moving through the hierarchy of field to file to record.
(n) drilldown. The act of focusing in. For example, "He got the information he needed through a drilldown of the database."
drill down
follow a category tree down to ever finer levels of detail. You might drill down in Yahoo for example from Computers_and_Internet to Programming_Languages to Java to Guides_Tutorials.
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Shazly
Egypt
Local time: 15:55
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1منسدلة
Ahmed Ismail
1 +2البحث المتدرج
Shazly


  

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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
منسدلة


Explanation:
example: drill-down menu means
قائمة منسدلة

Reference: Microsoft Glossary

Ahmed Ismail
Egypt
Local time: 15:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mohamed Elsayed
1 hr
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +2
البحث المتدرج


Explanation:
تتبع التفاصيل
تركيز البحث

To drill down through a series of folders, for example, on a desktop means to go through the hierarchy of folders to find a specific file or to click through drop-down menus in a GUI. To drill down through a database is to access information by starting with a general category and moving through the hierarchy of field to file to record.
(n) drilldown. The act of focusing in. For example, "He got the information he needed through a drilldown of the database."
drill down
follow a category tree down to ever finer levels of detail. You might drill down in Yahoo for example from Computers_and_Internet to Programming_Languages to Java to Guides_Tutorials.


Shazly
Egypt
Local time: 15:55
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 19

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  A Nabil Bouitieh
21 hrs
agree  Randa Farhat: or بحث متسلسل , http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=drilldown
1 day 16 hrs
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