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ranges

n. (plural of range English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: range)

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In the Hebrew Bible and in the Old Testament, the word ranges has two very different meanings.

Usage examples of "ranges".

He put his face in the radar hood, confirmed the ranges to the surrounding ships, then picked up his binoculars.

At such ranges acoustical signals lost definition, to the point that their bearing to target was only a rough estimate.

The radar operator read off ranges and bearing, which were entered into the Mk-117 fire-control director and relayed to the Harpoon missiles in the torpedo tubes, giving them bearing to target and the range at which to switch on their seeker-heads.

The MiG radars were heavily jammed, their ranges cut in half and as yet unable to track any targets at all.

We can choose from ten sensitivity ranges, using the same instrument to detect a minor leak or to quantify a major one.

Invisibility at ranges as low as eleven light-seconds, Mister Taliaferro.

At shorter ranges, we should get very nearly the same destructive effect they do, without the potential for disaster built into their system.

As it stands, the infidels are able to strike From ranges far beyond our own.

X-ray lasers snarled at ranges as low as fifty kilometers--ranges at which it was literally impossible to miss-- and hetlasers and force beams smashed back with equal fury.

Most ranges free to investigate the universe around us or to sample what we slow thinkers feel and think.

Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare?

Fresh-water and salt-loving plants have generally very wide ranges and are much diffused, but this seems to be connected with the nature of the stations inhabited by them, and has little or no relation to the size of the genera to which the species belong.

We know that it can perfectly well withstand a little more heat or cold, dampness or dryness, for elsewhere it ranges into slightly hotter or colder, damper or drier districts.

We have reason to believe that species in a state of nature are limited in their ranges by the competition of other organic beings quite as much as, or more than, by adaptation to particular climates.

With respect to plants, it has long been known what enormous ranges many fresh-water and even marsh-species have, both over continents and to the most remote oceanic islands.