The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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For example, a method developed in Zhuang’s lab allows researchers to image hundreds or thousands of RNA sequences in a slice of brain tissue, revealing both cells’ transcriptomes and their relative locations.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 6, 2021
Other elements of the illustration remain artifacts of their time, especially the planets’ relative locations, which are expressed in how long it would take a cannonball fired from the sun to reach each one.
From Time ● Oct. 25, 2017
Locations of all tetrodes were identified by comparing relative locations of tracks in the brain with the locations of individual tetrode guide tubes within the microdrive assembly.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017
Directional terms such as anterior and posterior are essential for accurately describing the relative locations of body structures.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
I have never heard this statement made by any one who has any knowledge either of Castaneda's narrative, or of the relative locations of the Hopi towns and the Grand Canyon.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James
