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Feb 25, 2020 11:53
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Portuguese term

MORDIDA

Portuguese to English Tech/Engineering Mechanics / Mech Engineering METALLURGIC TTESTING
This term comes up in a technical paper on various metallurgical tests made on the collapsed structure of a tubular trellice type crane boom, where they carried out various tests on cropped samples for lab. analysis.

Bite marks/undercutting????

formando o dente e rompendo por último
Proposed translations (English)
1 +3 (in)dent forming the cut

Discussion

Andrew Hunt (asker) Mar 10, 2020:
thank you all for usual timely feed back, i closed this request as I was instructed by my client to use the term JAGGED EDGES - however despit not having time to further research this technical term, i do not remain convinced this is the correct technical term.
Ana Vozone Mar 10, 2020:
Andrew could you please let us know what term you used? This will help colleagues in the future. Thanks.

Proposed translations

+3
34 mins

(in)dent forming the cut

Dent
dent noun (1)
Definition of dent (Entry 2 of 6)
1: a depression or hollow made by a blow or by pressure

Definition of indent (Entry 2 of 4)
1: the blank space produced by indenting : INDENTION
Peer comment(s):

agree Mario Freitas :
1 hr
Obrigada, Mário!
agree Andrew Bramhall : Yes, ' cut-forming indent' ;
1 hr
Obrigada, Oliver!
agree Bruno Dutra
2 hrs
Obrigada, Bruno!
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Reference comments

28 mins
Reference:

bitten

slides without biting or marking the surface - https://books.google.pt/books?id=WB5RBUQW3rcC&pg=PA166&lpg=P...
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