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Spanish: cintrado

English translation: curved (as an arcade or a vault)



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Spanish term or phrase:cintrado
English translation:curved (as an arcade or a vault)
Entered by:Walter Landesman
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Tech/Engineering - Archaeology
Spanish term or phrase: cintrado
This is a text about tool (more specifically, blade and bladelet) production in the Upper Palaeolithic (Proto-Aurignacian). I don't think it's a typo for "centrado" because it appears twice:
"El reacondicionamiento de las condiciones técnicas adecuadas de cintrado y carenado del núcleo se suelen efectuar mediante la creación de neocrestas en la conjunción entre la tabla y uno de los flancos." AND
"Estas extracciones tienen como objetivo controlar el cintrado de la tabla y permite obtener las condiciones volumétricas del núcleo para generar el primer tipo de soportes"
Simon Hill
Spain
curved (as an arcade or a vault)
Explanation:
cintrado, da.
1. adj. Arq. Curvado en forma de cintra.
Real Academia Española

cintrado: curved with the shape of an arcade or a vault.
Tech, Archit.
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Walter Landesman
Uruguay
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5 +3curved (as an arcade or a vault)
Walter Landesman
5 +2bending, buckling, warping
karin förster handley


  

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bending, buckling, warping

Explanation:
Cintrar: Combado de piezas metálicas por medio de la máquina cintradora.

http://www.conafovi.gob.mx/secciones/glosario/glosario/lista...

Though they used to do it by hand, the end result should have been similar.

karin förster handley
Argentina
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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281 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
curved (as an arcade or a vault)

Explanation:
cintrado, da.
1. adj. Arq. Curvado en forma de cintra.
Real Academia Española

cintrado: curved with the shape of an arcade or a vault.
Tech, Archit.

Walter Landesman
Uruguay
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 20
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agree Claudia Martel
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  -> gracias otra vez!!!

agree Egmont
2 days1 hr
  -> Thanx a lot.

agree Carmen Quiñones
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  -> Thanks again! - walter.
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