The phrase "a nearer object" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing proximity or comparison between objects, particularly in scientific or descriptive writing.
Example: "In the experiment, we focused on a nearer object to observe its effects more clearly."
Alternatives: "a closer object" or "an adjacent object".
This voltage changes the refractive index of the materials in the lens, providing a focus that is appropriate either for a near object or one far away.
The movements of the eyes when they converge onto a near object are in remarkable contrast to the saccade; the angular velocity is only about 25° per second, compared with values as high as 500° per second in the saccade.
Thus, during convergence onto a near object both eyes move toward the nose; the movement is horizontal, but disjunctive, by contrast with the conjugate movement when both eyes move, say, to the right.
Also, in saying an object ten times farther away than a near object should be a hundred times smaller, he is speaking of area; it would be ten times smaller in linear height.
Astronomers have seen "Einstein rings", formed when light from a distant galaxy is bent by the presence of a nearer massive object, usually another galaxy, that lies directly in its path to Earth.
Light rays from nearer objects form an image in a plane behind the focal plane.
Their debut has become a near-hallowed object for record collectors.
It raised the question whether the world is prepared to avert the threat of a potentially much bigger disaster from a collision with a near-Earth object.
There's a religious overtone to her phrase, but many book lovers may consider the business a form of sacrilege against a near-sacred object.
Monica Grady, an expert in meteorites at the Open University, says it is a question of when, not if, a near-Earth object (NEO) collides with our planet.
