[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[lojban] Re: technical/scientific lujvo (Pierre)



On Wed, 5 May 2004, la_okus wrote:

> --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Pierre Abbat <phma@w...>
> wrote:
> > > flecu (x1 is a flow at x2 flowing to x3 from x4)
> > > +
> > > matra (x1 is a motor, driving/powering x2)
> > > =
> > > flematra (m1=f1 is a hydroelectric station powering m2)
> >
> > jaurflematra to be specific. ro brife cu flecu
>
> The official definition of flecu includes current/flow/river. I
> suppose it could mean any liquid (it only pertains to
> liquids....right??), but I don't think we need to specify water. I *
> could* use rirxe, but the lujvo would be uglier.

I think flecu refers to any fluid.  Technically, fluids include both liquids
and gasses, anything that flows.  Actually, flematra sounds to me like a
turbine, where a gas turbine and a wind turbine and a water wheel are more or
less the same thing, in principle.
-- 
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/

My major? It's Underwater Fire Protection.