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distance
Archaeology; Evolution

In taxonomy, referring to the quantitatively measured difference between the phenetic appearance of two groups of individuals, such as populations or species (phenetic distance), ...

distance
Language; Linguistics

One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category relates to distance of a referent relative to a speaker or hearer and is encoded by closed class ...

distance
Physics; General physics

The actual path length covered by a body. It is a scalar quantity.

distance
Literature; Literary techniques

Used in two main senses: 1) the narrator’s emotional distance fromthe characters and the action (the degree of his or her involvement in the story); and 2) the distance between ...

shooting line
Sports; Archery

When an archer shoots at a target they shoot from the shooting line, and they must have one foot on one side of the line and the other foot an the other side. They straddle the ...

sight
Sports; Archery

A device that the archer uses to assist in his aiming at the target. The sight is placed on the bow.

sight window
Sports; Archery

The sight window is an area that is cut out of the riser (handle) and allows the archer to be able to better see through the sight.

sling
Sports; Archery

A sling allows the archer to rest the bow in his hand.

spine
Sports; Archery

This refers to how strong and stiff the shaft of an arrow is.

stabilizer
Sports; Archery

See Longrod.

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