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TENSOR

English translation: stress factor

14:41 Jan 24, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Environment & Ecology / Pollution Control
Portuguese term or phrase: TENSOR
Contaminação é a introdução de um agente indesejável no meio (ACIESP, 1997), enquanto que impacto ambiental é a alteração, de fato, provocada por um tensor (Brasil, 1986).
Mike Davison
Brazil
Local time: 05:29
English translation:stress factor
Explanation:
or environmental stress factor
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Mark Robertson
Local time: 09:29
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Thanks
Mike
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2stress factor
Mark Robertson
4 +1strain factor, strain element
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
5 -1tensor
Fernando Okabe Biazibeti
4factor
kashew
3 -1Tensor
Marian Vieyra
Summary of reference entries provided
tensor (PT)
T o b i a s

Discussion entries: 5





  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
tensor


Explanation:
plu. => tensors




    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor
Fernando Okabe Biazibeti
Brazil
Local time: 05:29
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Mark Robertson: I can find no EN texts that use the term tensor in the context of environmental impacts.
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Tensor


Explanation:
Não é? See ref.


    Reference: http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae168.cfm
Marian Vieyra
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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disagree  Mark Robertson: I can find no EN texts that use the term tensor in the context of environmental impacts.
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
stress factor


Explanation:
or environmental stress factor

Mark Robertson
Local time: 09:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32
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Thanks
Mike

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agree  Henrique Magalhaes
1 hr
agree  Marlene Curtis
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
strain factor, strain element


Explanation:
av R Ouimet - 2008 - Sitert av 1 - Beslektede artikler
to forest ecosystems. Other ecosystem processes (throughfall leaching, forest floor ... strain factor = volume change of the weathered horizons; ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S001670610800013X

Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
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Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sheila Gomes: considerando o contexto, é o que considero mais correto
51 mins
  -> Obrigado! Tenha uma boa semana.
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factor


Explanation:
See the abstract in
http://www.rmcabe.com/datict/investi/in7.pdf

kashew
France
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Reference comments


2 hrs
Reference: tensor (PT)

Reference information:
De acordo com BARRETO e OLIVEIRA (1995), impacto ambiental constitui-se em modificações nas condições ecológicas. Todos os impactos ambientais são provocados por tensores que induzem a diferentes modificações com conseqüência de maior ou menor intensidade. Tensor é qualquer fato ou situação que conduz um sistema a movimentar seus recursos gastando mais energia para manter seu equilíbrio homeostático. Para BOLEA (1984), impacto ambiental é a alteração produzida por uma ação ou atividade, seja ela favorável ou desfavorável, no meio ou em alguns componentes do meio ambiente.
http://www.labogef.iesa.ufg.br/links/simposio_erosao/article...

T o b i a s
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