Collocations withobject
These are words often used in combination withobject.
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actual object
The robots approach the mapped goal points first, and then, converge on the actual object.
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archaeological object
I would like to reflect on the potentials and limits of this trend, and on race as an archaeological object.
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astronomical object
They make aiming the telescope at an astronomical object easier.
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blunt object
They suggested that the boundary layer around a small blunt object, such as a cylinder or wedge, was thickened because of the large deformation rate of the elastic liquid.
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celestial object
The displacement is independent of the distance from the observer to the celestial object and a telescope has to be slightly tilted to compensate for the distortion.
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ceramic object
Ceramic objects (hollow figurines, beads, miniature ollas) were distributed between both individuals.
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ceremonial object
For the people of the mesas corn is sustenance, ceremonial object, prayer offering, symbol, and sentient being unto itself.
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circular object
Valid circular arcs are those formed by contacts between the whisker tip and the surface of a circular object.
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compact object
The jets are formed close to the compact object, and timescales near the compact object are proportional to the mass of the compact object.
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desired object
The answer is yes: but only when the defects of the desired object are made visible.
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discrete object
Matriliny thus became a discrete object of exaggerated importance.
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distant object
His companion's clouded eyes, as if following the last strange consequences of things, rested for an instant on a distant object.
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external object
Initially the whisker was moved into contact with an external object.
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familiar object
The recognition of a familiar object is a neural computation.
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fixed object
The feeling one derives from the document is of a subject that has procedures, characteristic approaches, traditions of scholarship, but does not have a fixed object of study.
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floating object
The melody, now a free floating object, progressively loses formal coherence.
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flying object
A flying object which is unidentified.
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foreground object
A large amount of film grain will often cause rough edges around the foreground object.
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funerary object
It includes furniture and funerary objects of everyday life.
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heavy object
For example, when human fingers pinch a heavy object, the movement of each joint of fingers is apt to harden.
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hidden object
Reaches are inaccurate only if the intention actually is to obtain the hidden object.
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household object
It was therefore decided to include a household object in the background of the illustration to give a sense of scale.
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imaginary object
But if the object is just a hallucination, its ontological status will be that of an imaginary object.
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immovable object
That was the impasse, the immovable object.
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inanimate object
Yet any living system is surely more complex than any inanimate object.
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intentional object
The content of a judgment is an intentional object based on norms internal to the act.
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known object
Extracting the color of a surface is error-prone, unless the surface is that of a known object.
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macroscopic object
So the light reflected by the macroscopic object will always contain a specular component.
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magical object
Contagious magic is simply the belief that a magical object can transfer its magic to a second party through physical contact.
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man-made object
Measure is essential to the making, understanding, use and enjoyment of a man-made object in a particular cultural setting.
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manufactured object
Importantly, then, artificial kinds are no less real than any other humanly constructed or manufactured object.
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massive object
What are the means by which to comprehend such a massive object with apparently all but circumstantial relationship to its context?
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mathematical object
Noise as an infinite-dimensional signal is an ideal mathematical object.
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metal object
Then the gold was melted in a ladle censer and was poured into the mold through the channel to create the metal object.
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metallic object
Its special morphology (iterative make-up) and its dynamic-rhythmic profile recall the throwing and the rolling of a rotating metallic object.
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moving object
In most cases, the moving object moves with unknown maneuvers.
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novel object
In a second experimental phase, all children saw a bucket containing a novel object, and two visible objects - one familiar and one novel.
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null object
In contrast, when the null object is recovered via the extralinguistic environment, it does refer to a specific item.
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object collection
They find that four distinct but related processes metaphorically structure basic arithmetic: object collection, object construction, using a measuring stick, and moving along a path.
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object of beauty
In that example, a small reduction in the quantity of enjoyment can, as we saw, make the difference between an object of beauty and mere kitsch.
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object of inquiry
Though a vast and indispensable object of inquiry, political language fails to capture the full scope of the concept of class.
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object of ridicule
For the most part, however, the learned woman was an object of ridicule, at best useless and at worst a renegade who had deserted her rightful duties.
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object of worship
In typical instances of worship, the worshipper has certain beliefs about the object of worship.
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object permanence
It is typically conceptualized as an ancillary deficit, that is, as a factor that masks the child's understanding of object permanence.
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physical object
So here we have one physical object that is being used to represent, or stand in for, another physical object.
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pointed object
In this view, every pointed object is equipped with a bottom element preserved by strict maps.
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real-world object
However, to varying degrees, paintings usually still had discernible links to real-world objects, if only obvious in the titles of the works.
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sacred object
They often disregard their capacity to render a personal or sacred object banal in their art.
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sharp object
Jewett was struck on the head three times with a sharp object.
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solid object
The evolution of solid object designs using genetic algorithms.
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specific object
However, this does not necessitate their conceptualization as specific object.
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spherical object
Shown a spherical object they see a disc and instead of a cube they see a square.
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stationary object
The collision course with a stationary object will be studied based on this model.
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stellar object
An accretion disk with vertical structure around a young stellar object is investigated, considering anomalous magnetic viscosity.
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tangible object
Not so with credit, where there is no tangible object to look at or to examine.
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three-dimensional object
This sketch depicts a three-dimensional object; it is a projection of that object.
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unfamiliar object
In fact, older monolingual children selected the unfamiliar object following an unfamiliar name over 90 % of the time.
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visible object
In this phase, all children were presented with a familiar visible object, a novel visible object, and a bucket containing a novel object.
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visual object
Neural evidence linking visual object enumeration and attention.
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