French: une fonction décroissante English translation: decreasing function 
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Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / stresses in offshore design | | French term or phrase: une fonction décroissante | La contrainte admissible en compression est une fonction décroissante de l'élancement.
I'm translating this as 'The allowable compression stress has a negative correlation with slenderness ratio.'
Is this accurate, or is there a better term? |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseRichard Benham: 5:02pm Apr 3, 2007: Negative correlation is a definite no-no: a decreasing function always goes down or stays the same with increasing parameter. Negative correlation is a statistical concept: there is a downward trend, but there may be exceptions.
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 Jerome Elhaik
France
| Note from asker to answererCheers for the help
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The translation workplace 
peer agreement (net): +2