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relative to its curvature.

08:47 Sep 20, 2017
English to German translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / SF
English term or phrase: relative to its curvature.
Another SF novel.
Explanation: a star is surrounded by a kind of geodesic sphere, a kind of web, but the sphere is not complete, a piece is missing. The star's light is mostly obscured, light can only escape through the gap.
The whole construction is seen from a spaceship and as a hologram.

Text: The web's orbit had brought the hole into direct opposition with the ship, The dazzling glare had prevented him (the captain) from making out the gap's borders, but the illustration (the hologram) defined them clearly. Three AUs tall and half an AU wide, relative to its curvature, it looked so small to the rest of the structure - though he knew the distances to be daunting.

My problem is 'relative to its curvature'. Does it mean, a piece of the sphere's surface is measured on the sphere, or is it taken out, flattened and measured in two dimensions?
I can only hope I've made this clear enough.
Irene Holicki
Germany
Local time: 05:00


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3in Bezug auf ihre Wölbung
Lioba Multer


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in Bezug auf ihre Wölbung


Explanation:
"Mit einer Höhe dreier astronomischer Einheiten und eine halbe astronomische Einheit weit sah sie [die Öffnung; L.M.] in Bezug auf ihre Wölbung verglichen mit der übrigen Struktur klein aus – obwohl er sich der erschreckenden Distanz der Entfernungen gewahr war."

Example sentence(s):
  • Mit einer Höhe dreier astronomischer Einheiten und eine halbe astronomische Einheit weit sah sie [die Öffnung; L.M.] in Bezug auf ihre Wölbung verglichen mit der übrigen Struktur klein aus – obwohl er sich der erschreckenden Distanz der Entfernungen

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Lioba Multer
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Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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