Mr. Dodd became interested in distances while growing up in Drexel Hill, outside Philadelphia.
T54 competitors include Britain's David Weir, a four-time Paralympic gold medallist at the London 2012 Olympics in distances from 800m up to the marathon.
To the 34-year-old Gebrselassie, this world record, his 23rd in distances ranging from two miles to the marathon, was the most satisfying.
In one of my favorite puzzles a professional golfer can putt the ball only in distances of 3, 5, 7 and 11 feet.
The uniquely sprawling tournament in Poland and Ukraine produced some large variations in distances travelled by the teams taking part.
By rule, an aiding wind of more than 2 metres per second (4.473 miles per hour) nullifies a record time in distances up to 200 metres.
Strain gauge, device for measuring the changes in distances between points in solid bodies that occur when the body is deformed.
For example, in dealing with the structural organization of the heavens, he assumed that all stars were equally bright, so that differences in apparent brightness are an index only of differences in distances.
In just eight years, Jornet has won more than 80 races, claimed some 16 titles and set at least a dozen speed records, many of them in distances that would require the rest of us to purchase an airplane ticket.
If we consider only elements which belong to the same time-value, we have − ds2 = dx2 + dy2 + dz2 These elements ds may have real counterparts in distances at rest and, as before, Euclidean geometry holds for these elements.
