physical space
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphysicalandspace
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physical
adjective
uk/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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space
noun
uk/speɪs/us/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofphysicalandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofphysical space
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A more sophisticated argument might be that, although a number of geometries are consistent withphysicalspace, only one can be accommodated to physical theory.
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The performers' feet were at right angles to spectators' feet in an inversion of the axis ofphysicalspace.
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These include uniforms,physicalspace, forms of address, equipment used, and so on.
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Just asphysicalspacecan be described by any set of three linearly independent vectors, the same holds true of the color-space.
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In general, however, circuits must be considered as asynchronous andphysicalspace-time as relativistic.
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Pupils sat faced away from the teacher in an inadequatephysicalspace.
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These representations are in a three-dimensional image space and have a difficulty in manipulator synthesis where planar manipulator operates in a two-dimensionalphysicalspace.
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It is a spatial image that occupies a very specific portion ofphysicalspace, and it requires energy to maintain it in that space.
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The problem is not just one ofphysicalspacein the legislative chamber in which all this diversity is to be made physically present.
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This consisted of a series of interlinked colour-coded sliders spatially configured to represent the layout of players in thephysicalspace.
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Archaeologists would call it a cultural landscape, arguing that any building or site 'inhabits imaginary space just as thoroughly as it doesphysicalspace'.
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Protoconsciousness seems to be comparable to "ether," the invisible form of matter that was once believed to fill allphysicalspace.
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The resonant content of aphysicalspaceor instrument becomes restrained by our own listening intentions.
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It has, in effect, long since left its association withphysicalspaceand visual perception behind.
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A particle displaced at time t, to a neighbouring point inphysicalspacewill remain on the trajectory defined by (13) through that point.
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A market in which commerce is carried on requires more than thephysicalspacein the middle of a village.
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Note, however, that this would give rise to a different discretized spectrum than when the domain inphysicalspaceis bounded.
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But for the spectator in the theatre, the layering of properties and thephysicalspaceis not noticeable.
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However, this is different from classical parallel processing as quantum parallel processing does not necessarily make a tradeoff between processing time and requiredphysicalspace.
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They operate together coherently so as to strongly direct the listener to perceive the reverb as an acoustic quality of that imaginedphysicalspace.
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