spatial position
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspatialandposition
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spatial
adjective
uk/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/us/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/
relating to the position, area, and size ...
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position
noun
uk/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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(Definition ofspatialandpositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In a population-based code ofspatialposition, this will cause non-veridical mapping of the population response vector, thereby accounting for the experienced distortions.
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At that point the second word disappeared from the secondspatialpositionin the sentence and the third word appeared in the third sentence position.
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Among the three geometries tested, the squared blanket is the one offering the lowest level of reflections able to satisfy thespatialpositionresolution criterion.
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Once the two lids were in place, there was little else to demarcate them except their relativespatialposition.
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Individual preferences, as well as the perceivedspatialpositionof alternatives, may change during deliberation.
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The nominal undeformedspatialpositionof each mass is considered the rest (or home position).
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The relations ofspatialposition, movement and scale among spectromorphologies, viewed from the listener's vantage point.
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At that level thespatialpositionof each element is not considered.
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The time course of the response at eachspatialpositionis biphasic but not identical.
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For each of the 100 trees per plot, the species, maximum height, number of branches and geographicspatialpositionwere recorded.
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The three functions are computed assigning the lowest upper bound of each operating variable to eachspatialpositionof the robot.
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Image representations of filters and correlograms are plotted as gray-level images with ordinate as time (zero at top) and abscissa asspatialposition.
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In addition tospatialpositiontumour cells are also distinguished by age and mutation type.
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Therefore, control and monitoring of behaviour may be closely associated with registration of thespatialpositionof the respective movement.
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On referring back to these individuals, he will point to the appropriatespatialposition(equivalent to saying "this one" or "that one").
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Between-tree patterns in pupal abundance were random in terms of absolutespatialposition, but markedly nonrandom with respect to tree characteristics.
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The presence of a larger audience complicates the situation, because each listener hears a slightly different sound image from a differentspatialposition.
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One can easily think of other expressions whose truth value depends on more than one coordinates, such asspatialposition, speaker, or audience.
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The ripple perturbation causes a particle to change itsspatialpositionnear a bounce point.
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