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adequação

English translation: compromise

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Portuguese term or phrase:adequação
English translation:compromise
Entered by: jack_speak

01:32 Jul 30, 2009
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Cosmetics, Beauty
Portuguese term or phrase: adequação
Há uma adequação entre o objetivo do estudo e os possíveis riscos relacionados às modalidades planejadas no protocolo
Georgia Kostick Almeida
Brazil
Local time: 04:13
compromise
Explanation:
"Apr 15, 2009 ... This sort of compromise between feasibility and risk is common in large resource extraction projects like the oil drilling in Cook Inlet. ..."
http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/blog/?p=855

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Note added at 12 mins (2009-07-30 01:45:13 GMT)
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This is not about adjustment or adaptation. It's a question of reaching a balance, a compromise, between the objective and the risks.
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jack_speak
Local time: 03:13
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3adjustment
Adriana Maciel
5adequation
airmailrpl
4adaptation
Michael Powers (PhD)
4relationship
Arthur Godinho
4compromise
jack_speak
4suitability
Luciano Antonio Gomide


  

Answers


2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
adaptation


Explanation:
context

Mike :)

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Note added at 3 mins (2009-07-30 01:35:48 GMT)
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an adaptation between the objective of the study and the possible risks ...

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 03:13
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
adjustment


Explanation:
sugestão

Adriana Maciel
Brazil
Local time: 04:13
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis
0 min
  -> Obrigada
agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
11 hrs
  -> Obrigada
agree  George C.
15 hrs
  -> Obrigada
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
relationship


Explanation:
"there is a relationship between the study's objectives and possible risks..."

In this context, relationship as in a link or shared point between the two.

Arthur Godinho
United States
Local time: 03:13
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
compromise


Explanation:
"Apr 15, 2009 ... This sort of compromise between feasibility and risk is common in large resource extraction projects like the oil drilling in Cook Inlet. ..."
http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/blog/?p=855

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Note added at 12 mins (2009-07-30 01:45:13 GMT)
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This is not about adjustment or adaptation. It's a question of reaching a balance, a compromise, between the objective and the risks.

jack_speak
Local time: 03:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
suitability


Explanation:
Something that is appropriate, suitable, pertinent

Luciano Antonio Gomide
Brazil
Local time: 04:13
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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1 day 7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
adequation


Explanation:
Definitions of adequation on the Web:

* equivalence; A change in the meaning of a term depending upon context
www.en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adequation

Ad`e`qua´tion
n. 1. The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Adequation

TechOnline | Algorithm-Architecture Adequation
An overview of the delicate choice of an hardware architecture adapted to a specific algorithm and able to solve our particular application.
www.techonline.com/learning/course/100016

adequation: Information from Answers.com
adequation [fr. L. adaequare , to make or become equal] 1) the result of making equal: equivalence 2) the act of making equal: commensuration 3)
www.answers.com/topic/ad-quation-1

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 04:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
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