Sentence examples for approximate direction from inspiring English sources

The following morning, from the window of a Kyoto-bound train, Colin stares into the fog in the approximate direction of the mountain that he didn't climb.

Sami was driving from the approximate direction from which the shells were launched and that may have encouraged the Americans to shoot.

For example, some simple eyes such as those of flatworms have few photoreceptors and are capable of determining only the approximate direction of a light source.

The new method "gives the approximate direction of travel, plus or minus about 100 miles, to a track line", Chris McLaughlin, senior vice-president for external affairs at Inmarsat, told Sky News.

In this study, direction relations about uncertain regions, i.e., approximate direction relations, are modeled as the combinations of four crisp direction relations.

Approximate direction relations are helpful to model directions concerned with both crisp and uncertain regions; they therefore can play important roles in handling uncertain data (in our case, querying uncertain data).

This is the result of the shear deformations of two approximate directions for these two crystal directions.

We model a mobile transmitter's path through a vehicular scenario and assess the success in tracking it by measuring the distance between the actual and estimated positions, in addition to the difference between the approximated direction of travel and the real one.

APS In the APS method, the approximate descent direction method is used to find promising directions.

The total palaeosurface extends 165 km in an approximate north south direction and averages 45 km in width.

These calculated index responses of woody vegetation cover are then displayed as maps where the different colours indicate the approximate timing, direction (decline or increase), magnitude and spatial extent of the changes in vegetation cover.