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scheme of things

Portuguese translation: na questão (no caso, no contexto)

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English term or phrase:scheme of things
Portuguese translation:na questão (no caso, no contexto)
Entered by: Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun

15:05 Jul 19, 2013
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Science - Physics / Higgs Boson
English term or phrase: scheme of things
You may have heard about the Higgs Boson. It’s the particle that physicists have just discovered with the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator near Geneva. But the Higgs isn’t just any particle. It’s a whole new type of particle and plays a very special role in the scheme of things.

no esquema das coisas?!
ou
no esquema das partículas em geral / no esquema geral das partículas?

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Junia Brenner
United States
Local time: 16:41
na questão (no caso, no contexto)
Explanation:
plays a very special role in the scheme of things

desempenha um papel importante na questão (no caso, no contexto)
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Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 22:41
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2em termos gerais; no esquema geral; ordem/esquema das coisas;
Edna Almeida
4na questão (no caso, no contexto)
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
4.... na organização geral das partículas
Leonor Machado


  

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em termos gerais; no esquema geral; ordem/esquema das coisas;


Explanation:
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Edna Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 21:41
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis: no esquema geral
1 min
agree  Alex Alexandre
20 hrs
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
na questão (no caso, no contexto)


Explanation:
plays a very special role in the scheme of things

desempenha um papel importante na questão (no caso, no contexto)

Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 22:41
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 43
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
.... na organização geral das partículas


Explanation:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/the-schem...

Leonor Machado
Local time: 21:41
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 12
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