Is "applausive" implied terminology?

[sbrothy]

Reading, or rather skimming, this paper: From new thermodynamics to classical mechanics the word applausive is both new to me and used in a manner which puzzles me:


[...] It indicates that Eq. 20 is applausive in the microscopic world. [...]

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Predicting results are applausive.

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I normally consider myself "good" at English (at least relatively - I may be a medium-sized fish in a small pond here) but the meaning of this one escapes me. The closest I can get using Merriam-Webster is "obsolete". Is that it, or is this some sort of implied terminology I probably wont understand?

EDIT: It's used in the synopsis.

 

[DaveC426913]

Reading, or rather skimming, this paper: From new thermodynamics to classical mechanics the word applausive is both new to me and used in a manner which puzzles me:


[...] It indicates that Eq. 20 is applausive in the microscopic world. [...]

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Predicting results are applausive.

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I normally consider myself "good" at English (at least relatively - I may be a medium-sized fish in a small pond here) but the meaning of this one escapes me. The closest I can get using Merriam-Webster is "obsolete". Is that it, or is this some sort of implied terminology I probably wont understand?

EDIT: It's used in the synopsis.

I have never heard of this word. It seems to exist, but it is an adjective form of applause, whoch makes zero sense in this context.

I would bet money that it is a typo from some helpful auto-correct device of the author. My guess is that it choked on a misspelling of "applicable" or similar word and just did its best.

I see the paper is recent (i.e. submitted just days ago) so I fjnd it quite plausible, based on my own experience, that it is victim of a dramatic increase in aggressive auto-correct bots - not just on mobile devices - but on computers (more specifically the applications used to author documents).

 

[sbrothy]

That makes sense. Thank you.

 

[DaveC426913]

That makes sense. Thank you.

OK but it's a guess. Don't take my word on it.


Another possibility is that the original document has been translated from some other language and the translation software botched it.

 

[sbrothy]

Yeah, it's gotta be something like that. I was totally confused. Or at least more confused than I usually am. :)