Sentence examples for measuring large distances from inspiring English sources

Making good on the operationalisation of a concept even as simple as length, however, can easily become enormously complex (for measuring very small lengths, for instance) or impractical (measuring large distances like light years).

Later, the work of Allan Sandage and Gustav Tammann helped refine the process so that Type Ia supernovae became a type of standard candle for measuring large distances across the cosmos.

The speed of light can be used with time of flight measurements to measure large distances to high precision.

I would say that it is actually the most commonly used distance measurement in Astronomy, just because it is a convenient size to measure such large distances in.

Just how do astronomers measure such large distances?

A simply feasible but less accurate absolute accuracy compensation method using tape measure on large distances was also tested, which resulted in similar scaling compensation compared to the surveying method or direct wand size compensation by a high precision 3D scanner.

Traditionally this would take engineers months to painstakingly measure over large distances, hypothesise and test, but SenSat's AI can run thousands of options, following the exact same design rules, in a matter of minutes.

The watermark M D is detected by measuring the largest distance between | | V → v ref1 − V → M | | and | | V → v ref − V → M | |.

The average distance of fibres was obtained by evaluation of scanning electron micrographs with Image J software measuring the largest distance of fibres on the surface region of scaffolds and naming this as mesh size as a parameter that should classify qualitatively the density of fibre network.

TBA was determined in fish swimming perpendicular to the imaging plane of the video camera, by measuring the largest distance between the posterior end of the caudal fin and the anteroposterior axis during a tail beat.

Therefore, D measures the largest distance between the two cumulative distribution functions.