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reunaehto

English translation: constraint

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Finnish term or phrase:reunaehto
English translation:constraint
Entered by: Desmond O'Rourke

15:00 Mar 15, 2007
Finnish to English translations [PRO]
Education / Pedagogy / andralogy
Finnish term or phrase: reunaehto
Outside of mathematics and engineering, how would one translate the term "reunaehto". I'm sure it isn't "boundary conditions". Can anyone give me some advice on this?
Billy Germo
Local time: 10:00
constraint
Explanation:
Possible contexts: a) a fact that restricts the potential solutions to a problem; b) characteristic used to screen possible solution candidates; c) a relationship among objects that sets a limit on values the objects can achieve. In c) the translation would also be "boundary condition".
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Desmond O'Rourke
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Local time: 03:00
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constraint


Explanation:
Possible contexts: a) a fact that restricts the potential solutions to a problem; b) characteristic used to screen possible solution candidates; c) a relationship among objects that sets a limit on values the objects can achieve. In c) the translation would also be "boundary condition".

Desmond O'Rourke
United States
Local time: 03:00
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jari Vesterinen: This is a good, thoroughly described answer.
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Jari.
agree  Jussi Rosti: Very good!
4 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  Spencer Allman: Do you think 'constraint' works in contracts?. I never know how to translate this, and sometimes just write 'conditions' and hope it will go away
15 hrs
  -> Contract terms list provisions (ehdot) of various kinds. Limitations or constraints (reunaehtoja) arise when the contract terms are qualified in some way. Maybe this helps!
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