We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

A contributing factor is the perspective, the uniform aesthetic distance which is maintained.

If the lever is pulled to clear a signal or move a switch, the tappet moves a short distance lengthwise at the same time.

Total distance is about 21/64'' ''.

This is done by measuring the distance from the surface on which the tire is resting to the center of the rear axle shaft.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

The size of the press is usually expressed in terms of chuck capacity ( the maximum diameter tool shank it will hold ) or distance between the spindle center and the column.

My unscientific friend does not believe that human stature is measurable in terms of speed, momentum, weightlessness, or distance from earth, but is a matter of the development of the human mind.

After it has reached terminal velocity, the time for the tape to travel a known distance is recorded.

Moreover, it will be asymmetric until a certain critical Af distance is reached, below which it will become symmetric.

The Af distance in Af is 2.26 Aj.

Here the Af distance is 2.44 Aj.

The last column shows the rate of exchange that would have been observed at a relative intensity of 4 ( 14.7 cm. distance ) calculated on the assumptions that the incident light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the lamp from the cell and that the rate is directly proportional to the incident light intensity.

If such is the case, the particles within a distance of about Af of the Earth will have, relative to the Earth, a kinetic energy less than their potential energy and they will be captured into orbits about the Earth.

It is conceived that one of the means to attain this social distance is that of physical and social isolation.

These can also move a short distance but at right angles to the tappets.

This also explains why the style of The Plague often gives the impression of distance and detachment.

Cultural differences should therefore be understood as “ clinal ”, " increasing gradually as the distance separating groups also increases ".

Hipparchus also gave an estimate of the distance of the Sun from the Earth, quoted by Pappus as equal to 490 Earth radii.

Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit the shores of an estuary of the Ocean called Mentonomon, their territory extending a distance of six thousand stadia ; that, at one day's sail from this territory, is the Isle of Abalus, upon the shores of which, amber is thrown up by the waves in spring, it being an excretion of the sea in a concrete form ; as, also, that the inhabitants use this amber by way of fuel, and sell it to their neighbors, the Teutones.

He rented a home for $ 50 a year within walking distance of Emerson's house ; he named it Dove Cottage, though they also called it Concordia Cottage.

From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia, in 37 ° 21 ′ N, to the most southerly point, Cape Agulhas in South Africa, 34 ° 51 ′ 15 ″ S, is a distance approximately of ; from Cape Verde, 17 ° 33 ′ 22 ″ W, the westernmost point, to Ras Hafun in Somalia, 51 ° 27 ′ 52 ″ E, the most easterly projection, is a distance ( also approximately ) of.

Cooee is also a notional distance: if he's within cooee, we'll spot him.

You can also compute the absolute magnitude of an object given its apparent magnitude and distance modulus:

Given the absolute magnitude, for objects within our galaxy you can also calculate the apparent magnitude from any distance ( in parsecs ):

This case is also used for nouns in several other senses, e. g., where the action occurs " because of " or " without " a certain noun ; nouns indicating distance or direction.

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

Industrial development also is hampered by Burundi's distance from the sea and high transport costs.

Longer distance tours are also carried out by bus, either on a turn up and go basis or through a tour operator, and usually allow disembarkation from the bus to allow touring of sites of interest on foot.

Public long distance coach networks are also often used as a low-cost method of travel by students or young people travelling the world.

The Centimorgan is also often used to imply distance along a chromosome, but the number of base pairs it corresponds to varies widely.

Troubridge's ship HMS Culloden was also some distance from the main body, towing a captured merchant ship.

By 16: 00, Alexander and Swiftsure were also in sight, although some distance from the main British fleet, and Brueys gave orders to abandon the plan to remain at anchor and instead for his line to set sails, although Blanquet protested the order on the grounds that there were not enough men aboard the French ships to both sail the ships and man the guns.

Noteworthy in the following statement is the usage of the term " not far " ( non longe ) which was also used to describe the distance between Birka and the Uppsala temple:

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This ability would enable a creature to recognize the likelihood that their perceptions are deceiving them ( e. g. that water in the distance may be a mirage ) and behave accordingly, and it could also facilitate the manipulation of others by recognizing how things appear to them for both cooperative and devious ends.

In 1935, H. H. James and A. S. Coolidge carried out a calculation on the dihydrogen molecule that, unlike all previous calculation which used functions only of the distance of the electron from the atomic nucleus, used functions which also explicitly added the distance between the two electrons.

There are also special distance ski races, sometimes called ski marathons, like Vasaloppet in Sweden, Birkebeineren in Norway, the Engadin Skimarathon in Switzerland, the Canadian Birkebeiner < ref name =" CanadianBirkie ">

The word distance is used here in a rather general sense ; ;

" The small-angle formula can be used to convert such an angular measurement into a distance / size ratio.

Depending on the distance Van Helden assumes Aristarchus used for the distance to the Moon, his calculated distance to the Sun would fall between 380 and 1, 520 Earth radii.

For objects at very great distances ( outside our galaxy ) the luminosity distance D < sub > L </ sub > must be used instead of d ( in parsecs ).

The pair drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ), the second ever produced and used on the Moon, a cumulative distance of.

The most common type of bus is the single-decker rigid bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses ; coaches are used for longer distance services.

Coaches are used for longer distance routes.

Footage was sped up, rapid cutting used to distance the audience from the narrative, and it was difficult to discern with whom the audience must ultimately align.

The Food and Drug Administration regulations in are used to strictly limit, for instance, television receivers to 0. 5 milliroentgens per hour ( mR / h ) ( 0. 13 µC /( kg · h ) or 36 pA / kg ) at a distance of from any external surface ; since 2007, most CRTs have emissions that fall well below this limit.

A catapult is a device used to throw or hurl a projectile a great distance without the aid of explosive devices — particularly various types of ancient and medieval siege engines.

In most cases the roadway is flat, so when the weight of the cable is negligible compared with the weight being supported, the force exerted is uniform with respect to horizontal distance, and the result is a parabola, as discussed below ( although the term " catenary " is often still used, in an informal sense ).

where the notation ρ is used to describe the distance of the path from the origin instead of R to emphasize that this distance is not fixed, but varies with time.

Generally the shotguns are regulated to hit the point of aim at a given distance, usually the maximum expected range since that is the range at which a full choke would be used, and where precise regulation matters most.