Electrical Engineering

Quite often, I find myself knowing the technical term of an electronic component in my native language, but not the proper English term. For example when translating a manual or other technical documentation to English, since these terms are far too technical to find in a dictionary.

In such situations I tend to do a literal translation, which can end up very strange and often comical "Engrish". (RL anecdote: all capacitors in our inventory system once ended up translated to "condensators", which would be a direct translation from Swedish "kondensator".)

Googling the translation can be hard and sometimes you end up with a "good enough" translation that can be understood in English, even though it isn't the correct term.

It would therefore be helpful to ask a native English EE what the correct English term is, so that I end up using the correct term.

The translation I came up with is "cable canal" or alternatively "cable duct". No idea what is most correct.

Are these kind of questions on-topic? Or might people find them annoying since they are too simplistic?

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