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positional

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Word definitions for positional in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from position (n.) + -al (1).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or determined by position

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to the position of something. 2 (context economics English) Having a value that is mostly, or entirely, a function of its desirability.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN information ▪ How do the cells acquire positional information ? ▪ The cell-to-cell interactions could provide the cells with positional information . ▪ It is as if the vegetal cells have set up a new boundary region ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Positional \Po*si"tion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. --Sir T. Browne.

Usage examples of positional.

Ned was moved from these towards the age of Steinitz and the modern style, then to an understanding of a positional theory called the Hypermodern that made his head ache.

A team of cryptographers, assembled at Navcomms HQ, soon worked out the counting system, which turned out to be based on twelve digits rather than ten and employed a positional notation with the least significant digit to the left.

There, together with various collaborators, he employed a new technique called positional cloning to find the human gene that, if mutated, can give rise to cystic fibrosis.

When the drill holes had tracked a hundred kilometers of tubing, a curiosity was discovered as cartographers fit the positional data points onto ever-refined maps.

The telescope's positional motor whined crabbily and returned the instrument to its original shallow angle.

Half a dozen devices on the ship, including all its positional and navigation systems, could be explained very well in one simple theory-// Aybee were willing to abandon the principle of equivalence.

I pay particular attention to the sizes and positional spacings of eyes and mouth and to the contours of the ears, and I compute a probability of 0.