"adelantar un resultado"

English translation: to anticipate a result/disclose a result in advance

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Spanish term or phrase:"adelantar un resultado"
English translation:to anticipate a result/disclose a result in advance
Entered by: margaret caulfield

04:57 Dec 13, 2009
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Science - Science (general)
Spanish term or phrase: "adelantar un resultado"
en el sentido de enunciar un resultado sobre el que más tarde se proveerá la prueba o demostración. To advance a result es correcto?
many828
to anticipate a result/disclose a result in advance
Explanation:
Another couple of suggestions.
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margaret caulfield
Local time: 06:56
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2to anticipate a result/disclose a result in advance
margaret caulfield
4 +1To give preliminary results
claudia16 (X)
4 +1claim a result in advance
Muriel Vasconcellos
4to preview results
Ronnie McKee


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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
to anticipate a result/disclose a result in advance


Explanation:
Another couple of suggestions.

margaret caulfield
Local time: 06:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 10

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Roberta Scaramuzzino: yes
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Roxio!

agree  Wendy Petzall: I would only use "anticipate a result" rather than disclose, which would imply a knowledge -with certainty- that is revealed, while the present sentence seems to indicate that proof will be found / provided (as in not yet available) later Right you are!
20 hrs
  -> Thanks, wm, although I'd say that the knowledge is already available, but not the proof or demonstration, which will be given at a later stage.
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
To give preliminary results


Explanation:
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claudia16 (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Leonardo Lamarche: agree.
4 hrs
  -> gracias Lamarche
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to preview results


Explanation:
It is common to talk about previewing the results of something and later presenting the organized data backing up the result.

Ronnie McKee
Spain
Local time: 06:56
Native speaker of: English
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
adelantar un resultado
claim a result in advance


Explanation:
A mathematician may not claim a result in advance of its achievement, for that injures the community by restraining those working toward the same goal. ...
ethics.iit.edu/indexOfCodes-2.php?key=23_74_1286

To claim a result in advance of its having been achieved with reasonable certainty injures the community by restraining those working toward the same goal. ...
courses.cs.vt.edu/cs3604/lib/WorldCodes/AMS.html

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Note added at 20 hrs (2009-12-14 01:43:25 GMT)
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Based on Claudia's explanation, "claim" might be a bit too strong.
An alternative would be "infer a result":

Infer a result (1,100,000 refs):

only able to infer a result without giving any explanation for the decision. To support the result, Apriori will produce a set of rules for each class of ...
www1.indstate.edu/ecmet/acad/spring04_papers/rashmiramachandran.pdf

To be fair, the conventional lookup table had no ability to infer a result. The best performing region based lookup table only got 85.6% correct by ...
www.springerlink.com/index/ut1m5126j8133144.pdf

Nov 13, 2002 ... -Indirect Attack: Seeks to infer a result based on one or more statistical results, and requires work outside of the database itself. ...
www.vascan.org/webdocs/services/db_security.ppt



Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 22:56
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 56

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cecilia Welsh
19 hrs
  -> Thanks!
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