Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
regiones térmicas
English translation:
temperature zones / thermal zones
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Spanish term
Works in: English
regiones térmicas
I assume this is best translated as "temperature regions" rather than "thermal" or "thermic" regions. The second collocation I can't find anywhere.
| 4 +1 | temperature zones / thermal zones |
Charles Davis
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| 4 | climate region (zone) |
TravellingTrans
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Nov 29, 2014 17:27: Taña Dalglish changed "Language pair" from "English" to "Spanish to English"
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Proposed translations
temperature zones / thermal zones
"USDA ‘Plant Hardiness’ Map Shifts Temperature Zones North "
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/usda-plant-hardines...
"Based on the average annual minimum temperature for a given location, the USDA map provides an easy guideline for categorizing locations suitable for winter survival of a rated plant in an "average" winter. [...] The 1990-issue map was based on nearly double the number of stations, and it divided the temperature zones into five-degree a/b zones for greater accuracy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone
Here, in John E. Oliver's Encyclopedia of World Climatology (pp. 270-71), you'll see that under the broad heading of "Climate Zones" there is a sub-heading for "Temperature Zones", within which historical classifications of "Thermal Zones" are cited:
http://books.google.es/books?id=-mwbAsxpRr0C&pg=PA270&lpg=PA...
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Karen Dinicola
: I would have thought climate zones, except that the text seems to be referring to manmade guidelines (that don't even agree with each other), rather than climate zones that are readily identifiable and change little over time
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Thanks! I think the point is that these are strictly zones based on temperature measurements: isotherms.
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Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Spanish to English, Chinese to English
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