distant source

collocation in English

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distant
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪs.tənt/us
/ˈdɪs.tənt/
far ...
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source
noun[C]
uk
/sɔːs/us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofdistantandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As a consequence, the identification of such moredistantsourceelements may sometimes be less secure than one would prefer.
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This shows that the material came from adistantsourceand had only grazing impacts near the edges of the dark hemisphere.
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This indicates that some of the biological input originated from adistantsourceapproximately 0.5 km away.
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If the assumeddistantsourcewas misidentified, the error would rather be of the noncontextual kind.
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When their motility is low, cells tend to consume nutrient locally, which leads to a local depletion of nutrient and induces diffusion inwards from adistantsource.
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Those were the days of the very pungent cure which enabled the bacon to travel from thatdistantsourceand reach our markets in an edible condition.
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These reservoirs have filled with gas by slow accumulation, with gas migrating fromdistantsourcerock over millions of years.
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The glacial movement from the northwest was from a moredistantsourcethan ice from the northwest.
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Real-life sounds arrive as planar wavefronts, if from a reasonablydistantsource.
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A ditch can be used for drainage, to drain water from low-lying areas, alongside roadways or fields, or to channel water from a moredistantsourcefor plant irrigation.
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If the same pattern of intervals is seen in an observed spectrum from adistantsourcebut occurring at shifted wavelengths, it can be identified as hydrogen too.
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Artifacts emanating from cardiac and other distant sources were removed by the software in a channel-specific manner.
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It is clear that in many cases water will have to be brought from distant sources.
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Shortly after, a volcano emerges in the area, and the clan invents the first sledge to carry food from more distant sources.
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Trade networks linked this culture with related regional cultures and distant sources of raw materials, including lapis lazuli and other materials for bead-making.
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This region was selected for observation because it has much less galactic gas and dust to obscure distant sources.
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The relative contribution of inoculum from local and distant sources is not yet fully understood.
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For that reason, a spectroscopic redshift is conventionally regarded as being necessary for an object's distance to be considered definitely known, whereas photometrically determined redshifts identify candidate very distant sources.
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