Re: [lojban-beginners] how to translate "velocity"?

[Álvaro Vallejo <avallejor@gmail.com>]

Spanish:

Velocity = velocidad
Speed = rapidez

On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:31:30 AM UTC-5, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 01:03:15 la gleki wrote:
> > what is the word for "velocity" after all?
> > dont tell me it's {nilsutra}
> > velocity=length/time
>
> English, at least, distinguishes velocity (a vector) from speed (a scalar). 
> French has both words (vélocité/vitesse); Spanish has just the one.
>
> There is an economic term "velocity". Economic velocity has dimensions of 
> inverse time; it is the amount of money changing hands in unit time divided by 
> the total amount in circulation. We should have a different word for this than 
> for length/time.
>
> We could use a lujvo "muvnilsutra" and another "cajnilsutra". Or maybe we 
> should use a fu'ivla. In the six source languages (from Wiktionary):
> English: velocity
> Chinese: 速度 (sùdù)
> Spanish: velocidad
> Arabic: ?
> Russian: скорость
> Hindi: ?
> There's a Maltese word, but it's obviously from Italian, not Arabic.
>
> If we want to distinguish the scalar from the vector, we could say 
> "li'urnilsutra" for the scalar and "muvnilsutra" for the vector, since "muvdu" 
> has origin and destination, and "litru" doesn't.
>
> Pierre
> -- 
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