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sin

English translation: syn

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Portuguese term or phrase:sin
English translation:syn
Entered by: Carla Saboia

20:59 Feb 25, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Geology / Faults
Portuguese term or phrase: sin
"(...) a falha é sin a pós-Formação xxx, com possibilidade de uma história mais complexa de reativações ou movimentação incremental (...)"

"(...) o rejeito da zona cataclástica sin a pós-Formação xxx (....)."

Would "sin" be an abbreviation?

Thanks!
Carla Saboia
Local time: 10:09
syn
Explanation:
during

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Note added at 21 minutes (2011-02-25 21:20:48 GMT)
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as in "syn-tectonic dolerite"
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kashew
France
Local time: 15:09
Grading comment
Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5syn
kashew
1 +1sem
Clauwolf


Discussion entries: 4





  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +1
sem


Explanation:
:) Será que colocaram em espanhol? Sin é sem

Clauwolf
Local time: 10:09
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks guys, but it doesn't seem to be the case in the context...


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Georgia Morg (X): that's what I was thinking too, it makes sense in the context, doesn't it
2 mins
  ->  Certainly the author is not a translator friend:)
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
syn


Explanation:
during

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 21 minutes (2011-02-25 21:20:48 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

as in "syn-tectonic dolerite"

kashew
France
Local time: 15:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 36
Grading comment
Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carlos Quandt: there's "pre", "syn" and "post"... syn is synchronous, contemporaneous, concurrent, co-occurrent, simultaneous (occurred at the same time)
18 mins
  -> obrigado
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
30 mins
agree  Marlene Curtis
35 mins
agree  connie leite
1 hr
agree  Claudio Mazotti
2 hrs
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