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ranging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Range \Range\ (r[=a]nj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ranged (r[=a]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. Ranging (r[=a]n"j[i^]ng).] [OE. rengen, OF. rengier, F. ranger, OF. renc row, rank, F. rang; of German origin. See Rank, n.]
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To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
Maccabeus ranged his army by bands.
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To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
--Burke. To separate into parts; to sift. [Obs.]
--Holland.To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
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To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
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To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
Note: Compare the last two senses (5 and 6) with the French ranger une c[^o]te.
(Biol.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
Wiktionary
n. Act of one who ranges. vb. (present participle of range English)
WordNet
adj. wandering freely; "at night in bed...his slowly ranging thoughts...encountered her"
Wikipedia
Ranging is a process or method to determine the distance from one location or position to another location or position.
Members in the class of active ranging systems operate with unilateral transmission and passive reflections, as
- SONAR (= SOund Navigation And Ranging)
- RADAR (= RAdio Detection And Ranging)
- LIDAR (= LIght Detection And Ranging)
Special ranging makes use of actively synchronized transmission and travel time measurements, hence the time difference between several received signals is used to determine exact distances. This principle is used with SatNav, the Satellite Navigation class of systems. In conjunction with a standardized model of the Globe surface a certain location on the Globe may be determined with high accuracy. Ranging methods without accurate time synchronization of the receiver are called pseudorange, used e.g. in GPS positioning.
With other systems ranging is obtained from passive radiation measurements only, hence the noise or radiation signature of the object is generating the signal that is computed for range. However such asynchronous method requires multiple measurements to obtain range by taking multiple bearings instead of appropriate scaling of active pings, otherwise the system is just capable to provide a simple bearing from any sole measurement.
Ranging is the term merely applying for distance metering with moving objects. Combining several metering results in a time sequence leads to tracking and tracing. Commonly used term for residing terrestrial objects is surveying.
Usage examples of "ranging".
I was staring up at the stars, thinking of the Gibson and McIlroy and that abo walking out alive, trying to picture what had really happened, my thoughts ranging and the truth elusive.
I had adjusted them for maximum acuity at distances ranging from two inches to five feet.
Often the entries are mundane, ranging from recipes and auto-repair tips to lamentations over the blogger s love life.
Atta voiced virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American opinions, ranging from condemnations of what he described as a global Jewish movement centered in New York City that supposedly controlled the financial world and the media, to polemics against governments of the Arab world.
The beds below the Red and Coralline Crags, the detritus beds, contain materials ranging from Pliocene to Eocene in age.
Her hair had been bound into long dreadlocks, each of them dyed a different shade, ranging from a deep lavender to pale blues and greens to pure white, so that it almost seemed that her hair had been formed from glacial ice.
You will notice that the six of you empaneled as the formal jury are three male and three female, five white and one nonwhite, ranging in age from youth to senior status.
Over the past few days the Old One had been using various devices and rituals to scry, ranging from geomancy on the one hand to actual astral travel on the other, in an attempt to discover just who his enemies in the Dark Council might have been.
Long flowering spikes of Gladiolus, in shades of glorious purples ranging from lavender to fuchsia invited her to open her eyes just to admire their stunning beauty.
Ranging north from there spread the dark Pan Woods, tangled and close, where only the blue-bodied goatlings roamed.
Sometimes too we have been known to follow the Blue Nile upstream and cross over the mountains of Gonder into Addis Ababa and points beyond, even ranging as far as sea-ports where ivory-boats set their sails for Mocha.
Since the diamond interferes with sensitivity, no protection at all has been afforded to your so-vulnerable masculine equipment, and if a bullet should fly through your open mouth, there is nothing to stop it from ranging upward and destroying your brain.
The Justice Department will be issuing indictments soon for crimes ranging from bringing a wild animal into the country without meeting the proper quarantine and inoculation requirements to endangering an endangered species.
In the videos, he prowled the stage like a wary panther, wiping away buckets of sweat with a succession of huge handkerchiefs, his voice ranging from a mild, just-folks West Virginia twang to a lacerating, scornful jeremiad shriek.
In the early-morning light you could sense Alice Waterss eyes radiating the spiritual intensity that for so long has startled and impressed her friends and admirers and has set her apart from other chefs, making her a kind of materfamilias to a generation of chefs ranging from Sally Clarke to Michel Courtalhac, in Paris.