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The distance by which one thing clears another
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clearance
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clearance \Clear"ance\ (kl[=e]r"ans), n. The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance. A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail. Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped clearances. ...
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In pharmacology , the clearance is a pharmacokinetic measurement of the volume of plasma from which a substance is completely removed per unit time; the usual units are mL/min. The quantity reflects the rate of drug elimination divided by plasma concentration. ...
Usage examples of clearance.
At first I believed they would surely tear their wings uponthe branches of the trees, but in looking more closely I saw that the great branches of the trees had been cut away to allow about twenty feet clearance, giving the alated an entrance and exit to the world.
He had to hire her on a freelance basis specifically to get the copyright clearances for the album since no one else at NEMS was capable of doing it.
Greater problem: low human-scale ceilings made it very scant clearance for tall atevi such as Banichi even to stand up, once they were standing, and made a room in which four or five atevi were drifting askew a very small-seeming room indeed.
One of them is--surprise--based in Milton Keynes, and as of right this minute you have clearance to stamp all over their turf and play the Gestapo officer with our top boffin labs.
Despite the fact that he had a Top Secret security clearance as a warrant officer in a high-level Army Reserve intelligence unit, Bucca was repeatedly frozen out by members of the NYPD-FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force, one of the key Bureau units hunting Yousef.
The Clearances emptied these high lands of some fifteen thousand people, most of them crofters, or tenant farmers, whose ancestors had lived here for generations.
My place in Auburn is small, but my Redmond doss would fit in it with enough room left over for a pool table and clearance to make your shots.
Najwyzsza Izba Kontroli it was twenty minutes by car but of course he could be absent or busy supervising the clearance of the underground forces from the city.
Once inside the relative warmth of the ops hut, the kone removed his helmet and remained on all fours, improving his head clearance.
He charged back with the naked bayonet glinting oilily and evilly in his hand, still screaming cursing, clear across the room where no man tried to stop him, but Maggio moving with his club out into the aisle for clearance and going to meet him, and death suddenly slid into the big room dartingly like a boxer on silent resined feet moving pantherishly in to punch.
Sam Levy had any kind of security clearance that would satisfy the Positive Vetting and Technical Services Division at Vauxhall Cross.
The Zoomies were not only qualified, they possessed clearance to fire anything up to a million-watt laser.
Kennedy helped us get advice from some Earthside agronomy station to set it up and helped get clearance for the first pair too.
FTAT had funds appropriated, but no people hired, no security clearances, and no space to work.
Hawker and Bourne had their backs to the stone to one side of the entranceway, too close together for a Molt to attempt to teleport between them but still giving their gun hands adequate clearance.