physical presence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphysicalandpresence
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physical
adjective
uk/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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presence
noun
uk/ˈprez.əns/us/ˈprez.əns/
the fact that someone or something is in ...
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(Definition ofphysicalandpresencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofphysical presence
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Their sons are more mobile and less willing to commit themselves to their rural families in terms of establishing a regularphysicalpresenceexcept in the face of unemployment.
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Actors and performers know only too well the value of their bodies and the way in which they stand or fall by the impact that theirphysicalpresencecan make.
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Rather, the totalphysicalpresenceof the masked performer in the scene being played produces the communication by which the audience read various emotions in the mask face.
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This arrangement required adaptation by both partners, the musician relinquishing some control over the audio, and the dancer developing acute awareness of acoustic as well asphysicalpresence.
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The state, defined as the governing apparatus, cannot be physically ubiquitous by showing itsphysicalpresencein every sphere of the society.
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It is not just a question of aphysicalpresenceand conditions, important as these are.
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The evidentphysicalpresenceof music became subordinated to the higher reality of transcendental perfection.
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Because home-based telemedicine is less dependent on thephysicalpresenceof healthcare providers, geographical inaccessibility decreases as an impediment to the delivery of homecare services.
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The evidence for thephysicalpresenceof a temple was created through this accidental discovery.
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From these two properties, we define additional properties that further restrict the type of the physical place that an agent can havephysicalpresencein.
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Things get more complicated, however, where there are multiple cross-cutting dimensions that have to be represented by aphysicalpresencein the assembly.
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But in circumstances of immoderate diversity, that requires thephysicalpresenceof too many people for the representative assembly to remain a genuinely deliberative one.
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For others, life without thephysicalpresenceof the partner is nonetheless life with the ever-present materially-grounded memory of that relationship.
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Certainly thephysicalpresenceof the runes, that arcane script, implies that the two lovers share secrets that no one else can or should know.
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Large in stature and salty of speech, hisphysicalpresenceand personality made for a hard controversialist and a vigorous reformer.
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Recruiting more often occurs through social interactions, which require a person'sphysicalpresence.
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This is an accomplishment of "self-awareness"; the self here refers to psychologists' cognitive processes, interpersonal styles, and cultural systems as well as theirphysicalpresence.
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Listeners are a very special kind of external observer or hearer, because their merephysicalpresence in the room acts as an element of acoustical absorption.
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That the products of architects' daily endeavours - words and drawings - are of limitedphysicalpresence undoubtedly affects what they do and think, whether conscious or not.
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