preferred orientation

collocation in English

meaningsofpreferredandorientation

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preferred
adjective
uk
/prɪˈfɜːd/
us
/prɪˈfɝːd/
liked or wanted more than ...
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orientation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɔː.ri.enˈteɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌɔːr.i.enˈteɪ.ʃən/
the particular things that a person prefers, believes, thinks, or ...
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(Definition ofpreferredandorientationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Petrofabric analyses of quartz c-axispreferredorientationwere carried out on one thin-section from each sample, using an optical microscope and universal stage.
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This type of detector is optimally activated by a motion perpendicular to itspreferredorientation.
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This form of suppression can be obtained with masks of all orientations, including the orientation orthogonal to thepreferredorientationof the cell.
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The quartz aggregates show a crystallographicpreferredorientation.
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The secondary minerals show a weakpreferredorientation, approximately subvertical.
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In all experiments, we first determined each neuron'spreferredorientationand drift direction using patches of grating stimuli of near-optimal spatial frequency.
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A neuron's receptive field was first manually mapped with a hand projector to determine its location, ocular dominance, eccentricity, and approximatepreferredorientation.
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In thin-sections, the quartz layers show a pronounced crystallographicpreferredorientation.
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The top line shows each unit'spreferredorientation; selective and biased units are coded by solid and dashed bars, respectively, unselective cells by circles.
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A strong grain boundary and grainlong-axispreferredorientationis shown by hornblende and biotite.
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This model is constructed from five disparity-sensitive energy units of the samepreferredorientation, orientation difference, and visual-field location but sensitive to different positional disparities.
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The planar fabric is defined by thepreferredorientationof amphibole laths and compositional layering.
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In that study, texture border enhancement effects were most pronounced when the border was parallel to the cell'spreferredorientation.
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For cortical units, orientation tuning was measured first, and then spatial-frequency tuning was determined using gratings of thepreferredorientation.
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There is a 30-deg orientation difference between thepreferredorientationin the two eyes.
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In both cases, the maximum response occurs when each eye receives itspreferredorientation.
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The preferred direction ranges from near coincidence with thepreferredorientationto almost orthogonal to it.
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