In this task, you are given a sentence or phrase in English. You must translate it to Xhosa in a way that is equivalent in terms of meaning and grammatically correct.

Example Input: Slight corrugations or ridges and furrows in a flat plate due to the action of compressive or shear forces.
Example Output: Uqolo oluncinci okanye umjelo kwipleyiti okubangelwa ngamandla obubanzi.

Example Input: Becalmed.
Example Output: Phola.

Example Input: The angular distances between three shore landmarks were taken with the sextant, and laid off on the semicircular scale by the three rules.
Example Output:
Umgama weengile phakathi kwezimpawuli nxweme ezintathu, wawuthathwa neesekstant, zibekwe ngaphaya kwesi sikali sibusangqa ngezi zixhobo zokulinganisa ezintathu.