Sentence examples for gauging the distance from inspiring English sources

It was also a 3-D moment in all but name, with the viewer's brain instantly gauging the distance and the velocity of the bullet's path.

I felt more confident as we moved into deeper water, and at the same time I was gauging the distance we had travelled, making sure that I had enough left in me to get back.

The VSX-D912 ($475) uses a microphone as well, which listens not just for volume levels but also timing, gauging the distance to each speaker with sonar-like pings.

And even then, law enforcement had to use a tape measure to sort out jurisdiction, gauging the distance between the barrel of the gun and the point of bullet impact to persuade the local police to intervene.

It emits and receives laser signals to orient itself, gauging the distance to special reflective plates (which are placed at regular intervals of about 10 meters).

The system relies on admixture a genetic principle that argues that when a family migrates across a geographic barrier into a new location, they start mating with the locals; new traits start blending into their gene pool, and this genetic diversity provides a ruler for gauging the distance from home.

Accurately gauging the distances to faraway galaxies has always been the most problematical part of making such measurements.

That factor, as well as gauging the distances to galaxies, creates an uncertainty of about 10%.

As one of the original suits in Reservoir Dogs he can gauge the distance the director has travelled in two decades.

For each beam reflected back to the plane, the lidar would measure its round-trip time and so gauge the distance travelled to within a centimetre.

For instance, most people can explain why they count the seconds between lightning and thunder to gauge the distance of a storm.