linear distance
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflinearanddistance
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linear
adjective
uk/ˈlɪn.i.ər/us/ˈlɪn.i.ɚ/
consisting of relating to lines ...
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distance
noun
uk/ˈdɪs.təns/us/ˈdɪs.təns/
the amount of space between ...
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(Definition oflinearanddistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Note the increase in both receptor numbers perlineardistanceand the intensity of each punctum (clustering of receptors) with added astroglia.
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Distance between pairs of host populations was calculated as alineardistancebetween sampling localities obtained from a map (fig. 1).
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Thelineardistancein miles was recorded for each of these village pairs.
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The way of calculating thelineardistancebetween the gap and head noun is not simply to count the number of intervening words.
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In other words, according to these researchers, this hierarchy results from thelineardistancebetween the gap and head noun.
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Mapping a number of characteristics of the plasma as a function oflineardistancefrom the microwave coupler raises additional questions.
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The advantages of the contactless measurement with a vibrometer are the good andlineardistanceresolution, which is only limited by noise, and a very good dynamic range.
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This distance should be the same as the distance calculated by the path planner; which is alineardistance in z-direction between two adjacent knots in (x, y, z) coordinates.
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The small viewing window accounts not only for the correlation between error frequency and thelineardistancebetween the interacting units but also for the high rate of noncontextual slips.
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Thelineardistancebetween the northern and southern ends is around 2.5km mi.
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Thelineardistancebetween the two spots are approximately 30 miles.
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It explains thelineardistancefrom the center point of each street segment to the center points of all the other segments.
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These indicators actually measure angular displacement and not linear displacement;lineardistanceis correlated to the angular displacement based on the correlating variables.
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In scientific and engineering terminology, a device to measurelineardistanceand create proportional linear measurements is called a scale.
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Once both diagrams are drawn, thelineardistancebetween the retracted slider and the extended slider can be easily measured to determine the slider-crank stroke.
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The mapping between linear distances and exponential amplitude appeared natural and presented no problems for the performer.
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As the number of points increases, naturally, linear distances between points are diminished.
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Another way to describe lake size is by the linear distances across the lake in different directions.
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In this class the space is anisotropic; however, its compression when approaching the singularity has quasi-isotropic character: the linear distances in all directions diminish as the same power of time.
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