The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A mathematical instrument for taking altitudes of, and measuring the angular distances between, the heavenly bodies.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Clocks of a sort had been made, but Tycho Brahe found them so unreliable that he seldom used them, and many of his position-measurements were made by measuring the angular distances from known stars.
From History of Astronomy by George Forbes
The second class of instruments consists of those which are designed principally to measure the angular distances of the heavenly bodies from each other, and their time of passing the meridian.
From The Uses of Astronomy An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 by Edward Everett
Thus we see, that the conjunctions will always occur in three given points of the orbit of each planet situate at angular distances of 120° from each other.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
An interruption of any desired relative length may be introduced between repetitions of the series by restricting the distribution of angular distances among the cams to the requisite fraction of the whole revolution.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
