The prescriptive school of thought in terminology holds that terms should be fixed items and should not be prone to variation. More recently, however, descriptive studies have begun to reveal that many terms do in fact have variants. This poses a challenge for language professionals such as translators and terminologists, who need to decide which form of a term to use in a given context. This article explores one specific type of variant that occurs frequently in medical language — variants that can be formed by combining elements of a term in a different order (e.g.cardiovascularvs.vasculocardiac). By studying such variants in corpora, we have identified some regular patterns that appear to reveal conceptual, linguistic and social motivations behind term choice. An understanding of these factors may help translators and terminologists to choose the most appropriate term.
An experimental setup that was utilized to evaluate the constrained thermal fatigue (CTF) behavior of several cast ferrous alloys is described. The tests performed allowed the assessment of the relative performance of different materials in CTF loading. The stable hysteresis loop of the individual CTF tests further allowed the development of a unified parameter that determined the level of inelastic (plastic and creep) deformation and the CTF life under those conditions. A CTF life prediction methodology for cast ferrous alloys is outlined.
Although Catullus 60 is widely dismissed as an incomplete scrap tacked on to the end of the polymetra, it is a complete and ingenious poem that contains an erudite and punning allusion to Euripides’ Medea , an acrostic and telestic formation, and a Callimachean play on the name Scylla, all of which taken together identify the recipient, Lesbia, as a fellatrix and associate her with the name Metelli . A better appreciation of poem 60 and the thematic cohesion of the final poems of the polymetra, their employment of closural techniques, and indications of structural design modeled on Callimachus and Meleager, show that poem 60 can be read as a devastating farewell to Lesbia and a close to the polymetric collection.
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