It was just distance.
Illegal fireworks crackled in the distance.
Technology has rendered distance irrelevant.
That is, action at a distance may be characterized as follows:
To test detection distance, I marked the length of my yard every 10 feet.
When the scaled distance is equal to 0, the branching is perfectly planar.
Powers or forces are not properties that bodies can have at all, since powers do not consist in relations of distance.
In some occupations an intermediate distance is also required, and a third segment can be added, forming a trifocal lens.
Yet despite the loosening of such ties, both short- and long-distance migration have decreased among 25-to-34-year olds since 1995.
If we know the distance from A to B and from B to C along some curve, then we know the distance from A to C as well.
See also athletics; cross-country; hurdling; long-distance running; marathon; middle-distance running; relay race; sprint; steeplechase.
In fact the distance chosen is often dictated more by the snapper's most consistent passing distance than by the kickers ability to lift.
After struggling for a while reselling AT&T long-distance services to businesses, Mr Ebbers started buying other small long-distance firms.
This distance depends on the focal length of the lens (see below Characteristics and parameters of lenses) and the distance of the object in front of the lens.
Strictly speaking, distance learning (the student’s activity) and distance teaching (the teacher’s activity) together make up distance education.
This distance in turn allowed calculation of the distance between Earth and the Sun, called the astronomical unit, as well as the distances to the Sun of all the other planets.
BAGEA models SNP distance dependence of directed annotation effects by weighting the directed annotation effect term Vjω across SNPs, with a distance modifier Fjν (see Model Overview).
Every point on a given east-west line, therefore, is the same distance from the equator, the same distance from the North Pole, and the same distance from the South Pole.
“The physical distance, cultural distance, and often time zone difference have all meant that there are inherent challenges in understanding the labor conditions in any manufacturer supply chain,” said Benjamin Skinner, the founder and president of Transparentem.
…I say, neither distance, nor things placed at a distance are themselves, or their ideas, truly perceived by sight…. whoever will look narrowly into his own thoughts, and examine what he means by saying, he sees this or that thing at a distance, will agree with me, that what he sees only suggests to his understanding, that after having passed a certain distance, to be measured by the motion of his body, which is perceivable by touch, he shall come to perceive such and such tangible ideas which have been usually connected with such and such visible ideas.
distance
noun attribute
- the property created by the space between two objects or points
verb stative
- keep at a distance
Example: we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living
verb motion
- go far ahead of
Example: He outdistanced the other runners
noun location
- a distant region
Example: I could see it in the distance
noun attribute
- size of the gap between two places
Example: the distance from New York to Chicago
noun feeling
- indifference by personal withdrawal
Example: emotional distance
noun time
- the interval between two times
Example: the distance from birth to death
noun time
- a remote point in time
Example: if that happens it will be at some distance in the future
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…I say neither distance nor things placed at a distance are themselves or their ideas truly perceived by sight… whoever will look narrowly into his own thoughts and examine what he means by saying he sees this or that thing at a distance will agree with me that what he sees only suggests to his understanding that after having passed a certain distance to be measured by the motion of his body which is perceivable by touch he shall come to perceive such and such tangible ideas which have been usually connected with such and such visible ideas