Distancy - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: distancylong distance
covering long distances as a long distance runner a long distance telephone call...
Distance
Distance. For any statute passed after 1st January, 1890, distance is to be measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 34....
Distancy
Distance...
Light year
The distance over which light can travel in a years time in a vacuum 588 trillion miles 946 trillion kilometers used as a unit in expressing stellar distances It is more than 63000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun The star nearest to the earths sun is about 4 light years distant...
Curtate
Shortened or reduced said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth as measured in the plane of the ecliptic or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic meets the ecliptic...
Curtation
The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance...
Easting
The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course distance of departure eastward made by a vessel...
Half ray
A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions...
Hyperbola
A curve formed by a section of a cone when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points called foci is equal to a given distance See Focus If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone another curve will be formed which is also an hyperbola Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola See Illust of Conic section and Focus...
loudspeaker
A device which converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance usually outdoors it is used to amplify or transmit over a distance speech from a person who is typically speaking into a microphone Sometimes it is used to play recorded speech or music...
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