spatial extent
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspatialandextent
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spatial
adjective
uk/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/us/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/
relating to the position, area, and size ...
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extent
noun[S or U]
uk/ɪkˈstent/us/ɪkˈstent/
area or ...
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We begin by outlining the basic alterations to models withoutspatialextentand discuss relevant time scales for achieving homochirality in a spatially extended system.
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For understanding the dynamics of the plasma sheet, a determination must be made of thespatialextentof the flow turbulence.
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A number of authors described developmental changes in thespatialextentof cortical activation in a given situation during postnatal life.
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They would not usespatialextentacross cortex to represent information aboutspatialextentin the image.
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This imposes a limitation on thespatialextentof each of the images.
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In itsspatialextent, the present gap effect does resemble the crowding effects seen for parafoveal spatial vision.
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To delineate itsspatialextent, we have sampled a finer range of small separations.
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An equivalent plane setup was employed in order to monitor thespatialextentof the beam for different focusing conditions on the target.
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A crucial property of this model is its bifurcation behavior in time, as we have seen when considering the models with nospatialextent.
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However, in the intermediate regime where the patch-grating diameter, patch-grating wavelength andspatialextentof the receptive field are comparable, the situation is more complicated.
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These receptive fields have traditionally been considered limited inspatialextentand tuned to specific stimulus attributes.
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This is shown in panels d, e, and f, which plot contrast dependent size tuning curves for cortical receptive fields of increasingspatialextent.
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The other two papers define theirspatialextentby watersheds that are characterized by a particular set of agricultural practices.
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However, one notable difference was in thespatialextentof the ipsilateral pathway.
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Systems for whichspatialextenthas important influence (as opposed to simple networks) have large (theoretically infinite) numbers of degrees of freedom.
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Relaxing this restriction can, in principle, lead to completely new chirality selection mechanisms that have no analogue in models withoutspatialextent.
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They considered a reduced polymerization model, withspatialextent, analytically and by numerical simulations.
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It can therefore be interpreted as a signature of thespatialextentof the interaction beam in the plasma.
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