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05098942-n:
the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
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00307176-n:
(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
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Hyponyms
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05129928-n:
a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy
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Hyponyms
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05130028-n:
the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
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05130210-n:
distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves)
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05130402-n:
the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere
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Hyponyms
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05130614-n:
linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil
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05130735-n:
distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended
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Hyponyms
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13897657-n:
the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel)
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Glosses
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05098942-n:
the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
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Glosses
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08664443-n:
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
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Glosses
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09379111-n:
an open or empty space in or between things
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00029639-r:
to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense)
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Glosses
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00030654-r:
to the greatest distance in space or time (`farthest' is used more often than `furthest' in this physical sense)
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Glosses
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00034308-r:
at a short distance
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00063310-n:
the fastest time ever recorded for a specific distance at a particular racetrack
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00100883-r:
(old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
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00101051-r:
at or to or from a great distance in space
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00101752-r:
to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States)
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00102029-r:
over great areas or distances; everywhere
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Glosses
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00150097-n:
(baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield
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00155995-r:
by a short distance
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00166318-r:
for an extended distance
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00255415-r:
at half the distance; at the middle
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00299933-n:
riding for long hours over long distances
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Glosses
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00307176-n:
(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
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Glosses
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00307455-n:
a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work
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Glosses
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00308073-n:
a journey over a long distance
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00407802-r:
(comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance
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00408021-r:
(superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance
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Glosses
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00442361-a:
located at a great distance in time or space or degree
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Glosses
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00446333-a:
covering a long distance
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Glosses
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00446921-a:
at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
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Glosses
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00478634-r:
over the whole distance
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Glosses
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00490722-v:
measure (distances) by pacing
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00506342-r:
so as to leave much space or distance between
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00890985-a:
the same distance apart at every point
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Glosses
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01002618-v:
record a distance travelled; on planes and cars
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Glosses
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01005579-n:
the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map
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01110880-v:
march longer distances and for a longer time than
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Glosses
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01123415-v:
cover a certain distance or advance beyond
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01408297-v:
hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance
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Glosses
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01432452-a:
extended or spread over a wide area or distance
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Glosses
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01434717-a:
being of a considerable distance or length
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01435060-a:
suitable for or reaching long distances
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01437037-a:
limited to short distances
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Glosses
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01442826-a:
of short duration or distance
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Glosses
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01651059-n:
a small chiefly ground dweller that stays within easy jumping distance of water; of United States southwest and northern Mexico
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Glosses
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01839690-v:
cover a certain distance
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01841772-v:
travel or traverse (a distance)
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01914947-v:
cover by running; run a certain distance
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01928579-v:
run very fast, usually for a short distance
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01953810-v:
move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
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01998125-v:
follow at a dangerously close distance
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02005347-v:
return home accurately from a long distance
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02091689-v:
walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
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Glosses
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02103925-v:
subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
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02515993-a:
at or within a reasonable distance for seeing
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02623194-v:
connect or reduce the distance between
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02686121-n:
a subsonic jet airliner operated over short distances
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Glosses
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02741149-v:
have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
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Glosses
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02741357-v:
be conveyed over a certain distance
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Glosses
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02939866-n:
an instrument for measuring the distance between two points (often used in the plural)
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Glosses
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02953973-a:
having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance
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Glosses
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03186818-n:
a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
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Glosses
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03496183-n:
a cylindrical log with a device that registers distance
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03724538-n:
middle-distance iron
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Glosses
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03759661-n:
caliper for measuring small distances
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Glosses
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03979212-n:
a conic projection of a map having distances between meridians equal to those distances on a globe
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Glosses
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04053508-n:
a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object
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Glosses
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04205192-n:
a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances
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Glosses
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04259771-n:
a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return
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Glosses
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04279666-n:
ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
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Glosses
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04427559-n:
radar that will report altitude as well as azimuth and distance of a target
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Glosses
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04595028-n:
a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet; uses ethernet protocol
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Glosses
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04676308-n:
the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
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Glosses
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05017757-n:
distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye
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Glosses
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05029327-n:
the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation
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Glosses
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05084982-n:
the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary
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Glosses
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05085436-n:
distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry
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Glosses
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05085572-n:
the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
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Glosses
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05086269-n:
the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave
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Glosses
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05086450-n:
the distance from a lens to its focus
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Glosses
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05086563-n:
the distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear
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Glosses
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05086740-n:
the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
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Glosses
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05087061-n:
the distance or interval between two points
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05087173-n:
the distance from the center of a car's front wheel to the rear axle
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Glosses
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05089947-n:
the distance between things
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05090111-n:
the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them
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Glosses
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05090255-n:
degree of figurative distance or separation
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05090979-n:
(astronomy) the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs (32.62 light years) from the earth
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Glosses
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05101261-n:
the size of something as given by the distance around it
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Glosses
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05101407-n:
the distance around a person's body
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05123416-n:
the distance or area or volume over which something extends
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Glosses
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05129928-n:
a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy
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Glosses
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05130028-n:
the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
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Glosses
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05130210-n:
distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves)
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Glosses
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05130402-n:
the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere
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Glosses
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05130614-n:
linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil
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Glosses
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05130735-n:
distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended
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05130875-n:
distance measured in the aggregate number of yards
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Glosses
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05131023-n:
distance measured by the time taken to cover it
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05131194-n:
distance measured in miles
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05137165-n:
the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
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Glosses
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05311795-n:
the eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects
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Glosses
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05709766-n:
the tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar object despite differences in their distance (and consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)
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Glosses
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05728271-n:
a coordinate system for which the coordinates of a point are its distances from a set perpendicular lines that intersect at the origin of the system
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05866822-n:
(shipbuilding) the point of intersection between two vertical lines, one line through the center of buoyancy of the hull of a ship in equilibrium and the other line through the center of buoyancy of the hull when the ship is inclined to one side; the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the stability of the ship
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05876148-n:
a fundamental principle of electrostatics; the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the distance between them; principle also holds for magnetic poles
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Glosses
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05879204-n:
(astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer
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05881867-n:
(physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
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05990089-n:
(physics) the theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
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Glosses
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06008148-n:
a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points a known distance apart; useful in navigation
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06009685-n:
one-half the major axis of an ellipse; the distance from the center of an ellipse to one end
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06011092-n:
one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes
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Glosses
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06011903-n:
either of two values that locate a point on a plane by its distance from a fixed pole and its angle from a fixed line passing through the pole
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06021013-n:
a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve
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06151550-n:
the study of spatial distances between individuals in different cultures and situations
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Glosses
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07002022-n:
a chart that is read from a fixed distance; used as a test of vision
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07005897-n:
a graphical record of speed and distance produced by a tachograph
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Glosses
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07263503-n:
an electronic signal that has been reflected back to the radar antenna; contains information about the location and distance of the reflecting object
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Glosses
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07271167-n:
stone post at side of a road to show distances
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Glosses
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07464083-n:
a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance
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Glosses
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08004695-n:
a set of points such that for every pair of points there is a nonnegative real number called their distance that is symmetric and satisfies the triangle inequality
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08495420-n:
apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth
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08495908-n:
apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun
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08580944-n:
a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress
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Glosses
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08631945-n:
the distance that a rifle bullet will carry
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Glosses
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09266946-n:
a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance
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09400190-n:
the nearest star to the sun; distance: 4.3 light years
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09447450-n:
the strait between the English Channel and the North Sea; shortest distance between England and the European continent
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09465984-n:
territorial waters included within a distance of 12 nautical miles of the coasts of the United States and its territories
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10641413-n:
someone who runs a short distance at top speed
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10849625-n:
German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846)
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10960230-n:
Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC)
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11063687-n:
United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953)
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11453420-n:
(physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
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11483179-n:
given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them
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11485774-n:
the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance
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11529441-n:
the angle subtended by the mean equatorial radius of the Earth at a distance of one astronomical unit
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13590327-n:
(physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
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13590598-n:
(cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today
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Glosses
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13604572-n:
the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel
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13649054-n:
a linear unit used for astronomical distances
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13649268-n:
a linear unit of distance in metric terms
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13649626-n:
a linear unit of distance used in navigation
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13652066-n:
an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)
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13653615-n:
about seven inches; the breadth of a fist with the thumb stuck out (used especially in archery to give the correct distance of the string from the bow)
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13654674-n:
Chinese distance measure; approximately 0.5 kilometers
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13655570-n:
an ancient Roman unit of length (4.85 English feet) measured as the distance from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when next it touches the ground
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13656520-n:
the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers
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13656749-n:
the distance light travels in a vacuum in one hour; approximately one billion kilometers
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13656913-n:
the distance light travels in a vacuum in one minute; approximately 18 million kilometers
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13657080-n:
the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second; approximately 300,000 kilometers
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13657244-n:
a unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)
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13657489-n:
a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
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13660337-n:
a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
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13725726-n:
a cgs unit of work or energy; the work done by a force of one dyne acting over a distance of one centimeter
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13727683-n:
a unit of work equal to a force of one pound moving through a distance of one foot
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13727931-n:
a unit of work equal to a force of one poundal moving through a distance of one foot
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13728203-n:
a unit of work equal to the work done by a one kilogram force operating through a distance of one meter
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13757249-n:
the distance covered by a step
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13761603-n:
a very small distance or space
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13762458-n:
a small distance
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13762579-n:
a short distance
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13776342-n:
a large distance
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13784906-n:
a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
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13786187-n:
a one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points
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13851245-n:
scale on which actual distances from the origin are proportional to the logarithms of the corresponding scale numbers
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13860145-n:
change in temperature as a function of distance (especially altitude)
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13873502-n:
ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point
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13876371-n:
a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
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13877129-n:
(geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis
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13897657-n:
the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel)
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13942104-n:
the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance, "the ultimacy of these social values"
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14842560-n:
the trapped air that supports a hovercraft a short distance above the water or ground
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15221818-n:
either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator
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15279767-n:
the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours)
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15280346-n:
the ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours)
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15282696-n:
distance travelled per unit time
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