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ponderación escalar

English translation: scalar weighting


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Spanish term or phrase:ponderación escalar
English translation:scalar weighting
Entered by: María Eugenia Wachtendorff
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04:45 Oct 6, 2007
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Science - Physics / BIOPHYSICS
Spanish term or phrase: ponderación escalar
ÁLGEBRA DE VECTORES
Representación vectorial y notación. Adición vectorial y ponderación escalar. Productos escalar y vectorial. Propiedades de las operaciones. Composición y descomposición vectorial. Componentes rectangulares y polares planas.

¡Gracias!
María Eugenia Wachtendorff
Chile
Local time: 01:20
scalar weighting
Explanation:
I don't understand the concept, admittedly, but there are thousands of instances of this term on the web, why would it not seem acceptable?

try these Google searches:
+"scalar weighting" +algebra ~ 160 hits
+"scaled weighting" +algebra 4 hits

+"scalar weighting" +vector +600 hits
+"scaled weighting" +vector 68 hits

"scalar and vector products" 12000 hits

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David Russi
United States
Local time: 23:20
Grading comment
Thank you very much, David!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2scalar weighting
David Russi
4 +1scale-weighting
David Hollywood
1scalar consideration
Sandra Holt


  

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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
scale-weighting


Explanation:
:)

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Note added at 25 mins (2007-10-06 05:10:41 GMT)
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Also, a scale weighting of 1 was included for foods not consumed on any of the 4 days in record (S1) and a scale weighting of 5 for foods consumed on all 4 ...
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Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering : A ...where be1 and be2 represent the bubble shape functions for the fine scale trial solutions and the fine scale weighting functions, respectively. ...
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Note added at 37 mins (2007-10-06 05:22:59 GMT)
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or: scaled-weighting

David Hollywood
Local time: 02:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Brown: or "weighted scale"
1 hr
  -> thanks David :)
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
scalar consideration


Explanation:
This is just a guess but I have found quite a few links regarding it:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999SPIE.3904...40A
Novel approach for the analysis of singularities in vector fields has been proposed. The essence of this approach is scalar consideration of the phase vortices at the orthogonal field components. The new type of vortices are introduced, namely the phase-difference vortices. The sign principle for the phase-difference vortices is formulated.

The word "scalar" also appears in various Wikipedia documents e.g.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_general_relativ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(spatial)

Sandra Holt
Spain
Local time: 07:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
scalar weighting


Explanation:
I don't understand the concept, admittedly, but there are thousands of instances of this term on the web, why would it not seem acceptable?

try these Google searches:
+"scalar weighting" +algebra ~ 160 hits
+"scaled weighting" +algebra 4 hits

+"scalar weighting" +vector +600 hits
+"scaled weighting" +vector 68 hits

"scalar and vector products" 12000 hits



David Russi
United States
Local time: 23:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you very much, David!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  xxxmediamatrix: Right answer - for all the worst reasons!
10 hrs

agree  Kim Hewitt: agree with scalar weighting
1 day11 hrs
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