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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
positional
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 for specifying positional information.
▪ The same positional information is used to specify all the structures in the limb.
▪ This observation may at least provide a clue to the molecular basis of positional information.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gaining approval, competing for scarce resources, and obtaining cooperation require managers to develop bases of power beyond positional authority.
▪ Her chess, too, is said to be more positional.
▪ In the sea-urchin, positional signals would not have to travel across more than 20 cells.
▪ It left me with few positional options.
▪ Police should never leave or transport a sprayed suspect in a prone position because death may result from positional asphyxiation.
▪ The small size of positional fields has two important implications.
▪ This allows for slight positional errors during fixing - a couple of G cramps and some battens are helpful here.
▪ This was followed by positional and B- value refinement through energy minimization.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Positional

Positional \Po*si"tion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to position.

Ascribing unto plants positional operations.
--Sir T. Browne.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
positional

1570s, from position (n.) + -al (1).

Wiktionary
positional

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.

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WordNet
positional

adj. of or relating to or determined by position

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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.