Timeline for How do you say ‘nappe’ in Esperanto?
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| Feb 4, 2017 at 14:44 | comment | added | Mike Jones | They may be standard terms, but they are not mathematical terms. I was going for a mathematical term. (Ordinary language and technical language are two separate things. We often mix the two for convenience, but the mixture is like that of oil and water.) Science is not a democracy. | |
| Feb 2, 2017 at 20:04 | comment | added | Andrew Woods | If you search nappe cone on Google Books, you will see that very often an orientation is assumed, and that upper and lower nappe are standard terms. | |
| Feb 2, 2017 at 16:23 | comment | added | Mike Jones | I appreciate your input, and have upvoted your answer, but I think the terms 'supra' and 'suba' inappropriate, because they presume a certain orientation of the cone. | |
| Feb 2, 2017 at 4:49 | history | answered | Andrew Woods | CC BY-SA 3.0 |