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caractéristique nominale [1 record]

Record 1 1998-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering
  • Industrial Design
  • The Product (Marketing)
DEF

Those [features] presented to a customer when promoting the product. Functional features are the quantitative or qualitative aspects of a product that either are non-existent in competing products or exist to a lesser extent. Tangential features are those that do not directly relate to the product's performance but that in some way distinguish a product from equally performing competing products.

CONT

The functional needs ... performance levels and features ... must be looked at.

OBS

A property is thus defined as any characteristic of an object. ... When we intend to buy a technical system we ... specify its properties.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ingénierie
  • Dessin industriel
  • Produit (Commercialisation)
OBS

Nominal : Se dit d'une performance annoncée par le constructeur d'un appareil.

CONT

Les caractéristiques nominales du produit fournies ultérieurement aux utilisateurs concernés, dans des documents annexes au modèle de série, correspondent à la réalisation effective des spécifications

OBS

Voir aussi fiche pour «régime nominal».

Spanish

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