finite speed

collocation in English

meaningsoffiniteandspeed

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finite
adjective
uk
/ˈfaɪ.naɪt/us
/ˈfaɪ.naɪt/
having a limit ...
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speed
noun
uk
/spiːd/us
/spiːd/
how fast ...
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(Definition offiniteandspeedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thanks to thefinitespeedof light, it is still possible to look into the night sky and see stars that burned out years ago.
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More recent efforts have replaced the rigid lid with a free-surface boundary condition, which restores thefinitespeedof propagation for the barotropic subsystem.
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Arterial compliance in older people travelling along the wall at afinitespeed.
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Given that we are beings whose lives last only a finite time, and who can count at only afinitespeed, it follows that we cannot count to infinity.
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He determined that these discrepancies were due to light having afinitespeed.
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Note: the image linked to in the following table does not take into account thefinitespeedof light.
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The surprising existence of such afinitespeedof propagation (up to exponentially small error terms) was discovered mathematically in the 1972 paper.
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Thefinitespeedof light and the vastness of space turn modern large telescopes into time machines and astronomers into armchair time travelers.
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Thefinitespeedof light also makes it important to allow for light-time effects, both classical and relativistic.
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The term now is somewhat complicated by thefinitespeedof light and the nature of spacetime under relativity.
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Einstein resolved these problems by invoking a method of synchronizing clocks using the constant,finitespeedof light as the maximum signal velocity.
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This velocity was used by many in the 19th century to criticize any model based on afinitespeedof gravity, like electrical or mechanical explanations of gravitation.
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In some cases, light and other electromagnetic waves can be thought to be moving instantaneously, but for long distances and very sensitive measurements theirfinitespeedhas noticeable effects.
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For instance, due to the existence of a fixed andfinitespeedof light there will always be more latency on accessing resources distant from the user.
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Current proposals to construct quantum computers built out of atomic-like units mostly rely on the existence of thisfinitespeedof propagation to protect against too rapid dispersal of information.
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They can also advance the knowledge of how to perform very remote robotic vehicle control which is necessarily semi-autonomous due to thefinitespeedof light.
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Semi-analytic high-speed and low-speed solutions are obtained, and a numerical solution for finite speeds.
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General relativity predicts gravitational waves, as does any theory of gravitation that obeys special relativity and so has changes in the gravitational field propagate at afinitespeed.
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