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relative locations

  • plural
    of relative location.
    relative location
    noun
    the system of arranging a library's books by assigning each book a location in relation to other books rather than by a fixed place on a shelf. The Dewey decimal classification uses relative location.

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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

These terms are essential for describing the relative locations of different body structures.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

Coseismic triggering of compact brittle asperities embedded in the ductile fault matrix could explain the relative locations of HF and lower-frequency slip and the apparent lack of HF radiators at shallow depths.

From Science Magazine Jun. 16, 2011

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

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