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emboîté

English translation: nested


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French term or phrase:emboîté
English translation:nested
Entered by: Hattie Hill
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21:10 Nov 11, 2009
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Social Sciences - Mathematics & Statistics
French term or phrase: emboîté
This is in a French document that discusses duration models. In this example, there are 7 models, with each model being more complex (containing more variables) than the next.

Chaque modèle est emboîté dans le précédent.

Is the translation here "nested"?

http://www.researchconnections.org/Discover?displayPage=data...

Merci d'avance !
Hattie Hill
Local time: 14:26
nested
Explanation:
This is the translation given in the GDT, and 'nest' occurs frequently with 'duration models' in Google.

However, I'm not a mathematician!
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Valerie SYKES
France
Local time: 20:26
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Merci
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Summary of answers provided
4is tied up in the previous one
MatthewLaSon
3 +1nested
Valerie SYKES
4embedded
shoimas
3imbricatedxxxBourth


  

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nested


Explanation:
This is the translation given in the GDT, and 'nest' occurs frequently with 'duration models' in Google.

However, I'm not a mathematician!


    Reference: http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index102...
Valerie SYKES
France
Local time: 20:26
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Merci

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agree  xxxBourth: Very possible.
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imbricated


Explanation:
One set is a partial subset of another. "Nested" on the other hand suggests that one set is a full subset of another. Don't know about the mathematical sense, but the general senses of emboîter appear to cover both of these.

xxxBourth
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is tied up in the previous one


Explanation:
Hello,

That's how I read it.

tied up in = to cause to be linked so as to depend on or relate to something (makes perfect sense here)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tie-up

I hope this helps.

MatthewLaSon
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embedded


Explanation:
Domain: Information technology and data processing
Definition: software for an embedded computer system characterised by length, long-lived complexity, continuous change; its outputs are data and control signals

shoimas
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