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English to Spanish translations [Non-PRO] Science - Psychology | |||||
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4 | mecanismos (y resortes) |
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3 | marchas/velocidades y |
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mecanismos (y resortes) Explanation: Es una comparación con un motor/sistema -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 mins (2008-02-22 18:24:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "el Estado de derecho tiene todos los mecanismos y resortes para que la unidad constitucional, el Estatuto de Autonomía y la ley sean respetadas". http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/Aznar/advierte/Estado/... sus causas, mecanismos y resortes están, en muchas ocasiones, velados por otras circunstancias que, además, hacen que sean mas difícilmente detectables. ... www.ugr.es/~fmunoz/documentos/Violencia estructural.html - 10k - transformaciones que ayuden a las personas de la Organización, a incorporarse ... www.clusterconocimiento.com/.../EventosView.aspx?Alias=Clus... - 20k - A los mecanismos y resortes cognoscitivos premodernos de estos grupos, a sus pulsiones de tribu, es a los que con tanta frecuencia apelan los nacionalismos ... www.ojosdepapel.com/Personales.aspx?blog=144, 197 - 52k La fe implica un vendaje que es un narcótico que adormece los mecanismos y resortes del pensamiento humano por lo que no ha de emplearse, aunque se cuente ... almadormida.blogspot.com/2006/03/aforismos-ateos.html - 24k - |
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marchas/velocidades y Explanation: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:hRen_XluygMJ:web.ics.pu... The motions of the watchmaker’s gears and the locksmith’s tumblers are forced in a way that the motion of the second billiard ball is not. If a gear turns clockwise then the gears attached to that gear must turn counter-clockwise, on the assumption that they do not melt, vanish, or fly off their posts. They have no place else to go. Still looking into tumblers... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2008-02-22 19:27:21 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I've found "cubiletes" for "Tumblers" but don't see how this fits in with "gears"?? http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:My9Czg7kiKMJ:ftp://ftp.... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2008-02-22 19:28:56 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Erroll features many of these locks in American Genius: Nineteenth-Century Bank Locks and Time Locks, a book he cowrote with his son, David. "These locks were made in a much different world," Erroll says. "Unparalleled craftsmanship. The attempt to make all things beautiful. These men spared no expense." All of which is especially striking considering the locks' elaborately decorated wheels, gears and tumblers were meant to be kept hidden. Thieves in the 1800s broke into bank vaults by observing the lock's inner workings through the keyhole. Early advances were made to keep Peeping Toms--and their sticky fingers--away from all those greenbacks. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2008-02-22 19:29:24 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- [PDF] Proposal of paper format for IFToMM World Congress File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML calculation of gearing strength. An elasto-quasi-static model is. proposed to investigate the loads on gears and tumbler bearings. ... 130.15.85.212/proceedings/WorldCongress07/articles/sessions/papers/A278.pdf - Similar pages -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2008-02-22 19:31:25 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Hi If they are talking about "locks", then tumbler could = "clavija": see tumbler - Definition from Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary Definition of tumbler from Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary with ... 2 glass : vaso masculine (de mesa) 3 : clavija feminine (de una cerradura) ... aolsvc.merriam-webster.aol.com/spanish/tumbler - 21k - Cached - Similar pages -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2008-02-22 19:32:33 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Here, "tumbler" = tambor http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Mb0u23kmAy4J:www.homeco... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2008-02-22 19:34:15 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Here, they have used "cilindro" for "tumbler". http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:rv84FTjTkiAJ:www.liga.n... Good luck! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2008-02-22 19:35:11 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- So, if they are ACTUALLY building a model, the sentence can be translated literally into Spanish, IMO. |
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