Collocations withdistance
These are words often used in combination withdistance.
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angular distance
A fault plane is assigned to a subset that produces a minimum angular distance with the fault.
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average distance
Transport costs to and from the practice for alternative treatment were not calculated since no data were available on the average distance to such practices.
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commuting distance
It appears that such a strategy aided recruitment, but it was often at the expense of "poaching" staff from neighbouring services within commuting distance.
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considerable distance
The reader is thus given criticism of a paper at a considerable distance from their reading of it.
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dispersal distance
Seedling survival of tropical tree species: interactions of dispersal distance, light-gaps, and pathogens.
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distance measurement
Among these techniques, ultrasonic systems have attracted much interest because of their low cost and potentially good accuracy for distance measurement.
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distance runner
As a youth, he participated in track and field sports, and was a short distance runner.
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driving distance
Note that the measure is driving distance, not the actual geographical distance.
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emotional distance
Managerialist discourse is itself notably disembodied, drawing on traditions like economics, accountancy, organisation and methods that prize abstraction and emotional distance.
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enormous distance
We have to travel an enormous distance, as everyone knows, before we get truly level competition.
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evolutionary distance
The evolutionary distance is represented by the scale bar.
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exact distance
The exact distance function d is normalized to any order, and equations of the form d = 0 are often called normal.
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far distance
The robot is exposed to the sentry at a far distance where it is more covert than the other shortcuts to the goal.
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fixed distance
It is unlikely that this energy would be sufficient for connecting two points a fixed distance away if is very small.
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geographic distance
If a residue is negative, the distance between two successive points is smaller than we would expect on the basis of their geographic distance.
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geographical distance
Geographical distance between the older person and their children was considered a major determinant of whether they could exercise generativity.
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great distance
If it then turned out to be accurate, it would demonstrate that great distance did not necessarily prevent clairvoyance from operating.
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horizontal distance
It falls to half its maximum value in one nondimensional horizontal distance.
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immense distance
Last year, for instance, 1,339 people came, many of them an immense distance, and then, on arrival in this country, they were pitched back.
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increasing distance
Increasing distance to market slowed deforestation somewhat and lowered income, without changing the qualitative results.
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infinite distance
Here again the speed becomes infinite at an infinite distance from the wall.
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linear distance
Note the increase in both receptor numbers per linear distance and the intensity of each punctum (clustering of receptors) with added astroglia.
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maximum distance
These include functional reach, which measures the maximum distance one can reach forward beyond arm's length while maintaining a fixed standing base of support.
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mean distance
The mean distance between hospital and home, 40.6 km, was relatively large due to the rarity of equipment.
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measured distance
Figure 5 shows the relationship between the position in the image plane and the measured distance.
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minimum distance
Discarded because it violates restriction: it does not lead to minimum distance.
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orbital distance
It is only known that its average orbital distance is within its host star's habitable zone.
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perpendicular distance
Again, the magnitude of the pressure is proportional to the perpendicular distance from the surface to the curve.
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phylogenetic distance
The scale bar represents the phylogenetic distance expressed as expected amino acid substitutions per site.
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precise distance
The precise shape of m(r) and the precise distance to the optimum travelled are of little significance, as long as the latter is reasonably large.
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radial distance
All depths beyond a certain radial distance are mapped to the surface of the representation which corresponds to perceptual infinity.
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reasonable distance
Normally, we regard two miles as a reasonable distance between post offices in these areas, but we do not keep rigidly to this.
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relative distance
We then plotted the strength of synchrony between cells as a function of this relative distance.
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respectful distance
Photographs are taken and interviews conducted - all recounted in a fashion that moves from a forced casualness to a respectful distance and back again.
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safe distance
The most popular and straightforward way is the use of safe margin to keep the object passing at a safe distance.
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semantic distance
The measurement of semantic distance can be based on the semantic relationship between words.
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short distance
The measured quantity used here is the surface clevation a t a point a short distance from the paddle.
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signed distance
In practice, the level set function is re-initialized at regular time intervals such that it is approximately a signed distance function to the interface.
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spatial distance
Clusters can be formed based on spatial distance, correlations, or some blend of these two concepts of similarity.
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sufficient distance
If there is sufficient distance between the relevant ethnic groups, there may be "no mutually beneficial order on which all could coordinate" (p. 191).
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temporal distance
To this end we recall the definition of the temporal distance function.
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varying distances
Patterns are usually measured by firing at a 30 in diameter circle on a large sheet of paper placed at varying distances.
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vast distance
The field has moved a vast distance since this book was composed, but the book has not moved with it.
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vertical distance
Creativity allows for the comparison of the vertical distance between them by tracing horizontal bands that span the width of the diamond shape.
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viewing distance
Viewing distance was 10 cm and a chin and head rest was used.
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walking distance
Organisations highlighted the need to be located within a short walking distance of key public transport routes if voluntary services are to be fully utilised.
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within striking distance
I am told by conservative estate agents that the repair grant would have to be doubled if it was to come within striking distance.
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