Category talk:Luster terminals
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Erroneous use of the English term “Luster”.[edit]
It seems to me that the term “Luster terminals” results from using a direct “transliteration” of part of the German term or “Lüsterklemmen“ (or “Leuchter klemme”), meaning “Chandelier terminals”, into a similar English word with the American spelling of “luster". Also, (while I do not speak German) I note that Google Translate gives “chandeliers” as an English translation of the German word “Lüster”, and vice versa.
However, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) gives the definition of “lustre” (or luster”) as • A gentle sheen or soft glow: • (E.G. the lustre of the Milky Way.)
This definition in the OED (and other dictionaries) in no way relates to the items presently being illustrated in this Category of “Luster terminals”. They would all appear to be best described, in English, as “paired screw terminals” – and most of them are “multiple paired screw terminals”.
Hence, I suggest that, under the existing Category of “Electrical connection terminals”, there be created a new category of “Screw terminals”. Then, under that new Category of “Screw terminals” there be created a further new Category of “Paired screw terminals”, to which all items in the existing Category of “Luster terminals” be transferred. The existing Category of “Luster terminals” should then become a “redirection” to the new Category of “Paired screw terminals”.
- No, "pair" might confuse; cause each element of cartridge consists solid metal construction with milled screw-thread for mechanical clamping of electric wire using screw for unbroken contact. Dmitry G (talk) 19:37, 14 April 2014 (UTC)