Sentence examples for determining the distance from inspiring English sources

Wavemeter, device for determining the distance between successive wavefronts of equal phase along an electromagnetic wave.

Traditional radar systems broadcast high-frequency electromagnetic waves, determining the distance to an object's location by analyzing the echo reflected from the target.

This has been of paramount importance in calibrating the period-luminosity relation for Cepheids, and thus in determining the distance scale of the universe.

They are thus about 50 times as bright as the Sun and so are useful for determining the distance of star clusters and some of the nearer external galaxies, their short periods permitting them to be detected readily.

Lidar, technique for determining the distance to an object by transmitting a laser beam, usually from an airplane, at the object and measuring the time the light takes to return to the transmitter.

From 1915 to 1919, in World War I, Bragg served as technical adviser on sound ranging (determining the distance of enemies' artillery from the sound of their guns) in the map section of British army headquarters in France, and he was there in 1915 when the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded jointly to his father and him for demonstrating the use of X-rays for revealing the structure of crystals.

Better results can thus be obtained by greedily determining the distance-specific CB parameter settings.

In this paper we discuss the process of determining the distance-t dominating set of the extended star graph ES n, k).

We therefore sought to determine the distance over which the URA3 timing determinant can act.

Then an electronic measuring device determines the distance to the prism.

The sensor determines the distance between the wearer and an upcoming obstruction, and calculates the wearer's speed.