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"at night in bed...his slowly ranging thoughts...encountered her"
Ranging generally refers to the act of extending, varying, or estimating over certain distances, areas, or elements. It may also imply traveling or moving from one place to another, examining or exploring different areas, or determining the extent or limits of something. The specific interpretation can vary based on the context in which it's used.
Ranging is a process or method to determine the distance from one location or position to another location or position. Another term for this method is lateration. Further development led to cooperative systems, where both locations are equipped with respective apparatus and thus provide bilateral measuring and to multilateral measurement between a larger set of locations, see multilateration. Members in the class of active ranging systems operate with unilateral transmission and passive reflections, as ⁕SONAR, ⁕RADAR and ⁕LIDAR. Special ranging makes use of actively synchronized transmission and travel time measurements, hence the time difference between several received signals is used to determine exact distances. This principle is used with SatNav, the Satellite Navigation class of systems. In conjunction with a standardized model of the Globe surface a certain location on the Globe may be determined with high accuracy. Ranging methods without accurate time synchronization of the receiver are called pseudorange, used e.g. in GPS positioning. With other systems ranging is obtained from passive radiation measurements only, hence the noise or radiation signature of the object is generating the signal that is computed for range. However such asynchronous method requires multiple measurements to obtain range by taking multiple bearings instead of appropriate scaling of active pings, otherwise the system is just capable to provide a simple bearing from any sole measurement.
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The process of establishing target distance. Types of ranging include echo, intermittent, manual, navigational, explosive echo, optical, radar, etc. See also spot.
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The disposal of troops in proper order for an engagement, manœuvres, or march, etc.
The numerical value of ranging in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
The numerical value of ranging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.
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I fully support the Football Association's position that significant and wide-ranging reforms are urgently needed at the very top of FIFA, including a change in its leadership.
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