Knowing each device's location and the strength of the radiation it detects, the computer can "triangulate" the source's approximate location.Negative isotope effectsDifficult problems remain.
Beyond using Facebook data, it says it can "triangulate the truth" about a customer's creditworthiness by using behavioural data such as the way its online application form is filled in.
With a mandate to triangulate in Scotland's interests, Ms Sturgeon could have variously played off England's two main parties against each other and, whenever she failed, trumpeted the case for independence afresh.But she took neither route.
Like a web browser that caches data on a personal computer about websites visited so the pages can be pulled up promptly the next time the user returns to them, having the coordinates of local towers or hotspots already in the cache makes it easier for the phone to triangulate its own location.
Finally, readers will want enough clarification from philosophers to help them keep an eye on how the scientists and the public-policy types shuffle terms like "human", "person" and "nature".What the interested general reader needs, in brief, is not an expert in any one of those three fields but a thoughtful, scholarly outsider who reads widely and carefully enough to triangulate the issues.
Yet the president's instinct to try to please everyone has led him to triangulate with the right.
The French government, under the leadership of the astronomer Jean Picard (1620 82), undertook to triangulate the entire country, a task that was to take over a century and involve four generations of the Cassini family (Gian, Jacques, César-François, and Dominique) of astronomers.
Aristotle's view won out and persisted until 1577, when Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe attempted to use parallax to triangulate the distance to a bright comet.
In the 1990s a new navigation method became popular for use in warehouses: AGVs equipped with a scanning laser triangulate their position by measuring reflections from fixed retro-reflectors (at least three of which must be visible from any location).
This gives the SNP time to do what it does best: triangulate.
The difference in arrival time of the pulse at separate listening posts may be used to triangulate the position of the pulse source.
