Distance
123. Distance
See also 264. MEASUREMENT .
- echolocation
- the fixing of the position of an object by transmitting a signal and measuring the time required for it to bounce back, typically done by radar or sonar.
- hodometer
- odometer.
- nauscopy
- the ability, sometimes pretended, to sight ships or land at great distances.
- odograph
- a device that records the distance traveled; a recording odometer or pedometer.
- odometer
- a device for measuring the distance passed over, as by an automobile. Also spelled hodometer .
- pedometer
- a device that measures the distance walked by counting the number of steps taken.
- tachymeter
- a surveying instrument for measuring distance, height, elevation, etc.
- tachymetry
- the measurement of distance, height, elevation, etc., with a tachymeter.
- telemeter
- 1 . an instrument for measuring the distance of objects from the observer, as the range finder in artillery.
- 2 . an electronic device for taking readings from other distant instruments.
- telemetry
- the science or use of the telemeter; long-distance measurement.
- telepheme Rare.
- a communication or conversation by telephone.
- viameter
- an early form of odometer, for measuring the distance traveled by a carriage. Also viatometer .
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Jaffa Expedition focus of Jonesport couple
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 8/11/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...envision their front room becoming the Jaffa Friendship House - in the same way they started the Maine Friendship House in Jaffa, Israel, in a historic home three years...sail from Jonesport in the so-called Jaffa Expedition. Following their religious...
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Jaffa, Where Coexistence Has to Work. . . and Doesn't
Newspaper article from: The Jerusalem Report; 10/7/2002; ; 700+ words
; Jaffa, Where Coexistence Has to Work. . . and Doesn't In the ancient port city of Jaffa, birthplace and annex of adjacent, bustling...essential. But two years after thousands of Jaffa's Arabs joined in the widespread Israeli...
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The gentrification of Jaffa
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/3/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...2006 Headline: The gentrification of Jaffa Byline: DANIEL BEN-TAL Edition; Metro...Aviv was unified with old and dilapidated Jaffa. For five decades, the 4,000- year...patron. Behind the picture-postcard Jaffa that tourists see is a squalid working...
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What is Jaffa's ap-peel?(Features)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 1/19/2002; 700+ words
; ...Manning spoke to the man better known as Jaffa about his extraordinary life. HIS name...Pontypridd, he's an idol. His name is Jaffa, and as a DJ and producer, he's been...grassroots level throughout his 20 year career, Jaffa has only just started getting recognised...
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United Nations of Jaffa
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/29/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...07-29-2005 Headline: United Nations of Jaffa Byline: BARRY DAVIS Edition; Billboard Section...you could do a lot worse than get on down to Jaffa between August 4-6 for the 2005 Duet in Jaffa Festival. The admission-free program for...
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Zion and the Arabs: Jaffa as a metaphor.(Reprint)
Magazine article from: World Policy Journal; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...in all their variety and contradictions. Why Jaffa? Because the relationship between Jaffa and Tel Aviv is a metaphor for that between Palestine...Israel. Tel Aviv was founded as a suburb of Jaffa, a century ago, but Jaffa is now a suburb of...
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Old Jaffa; Just Ain't What It Used to Be!
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent; 11/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Miriam Jewish Exponent 11-03-2005 Old Jaffa, one of the most ancient ports in the...skyline weren't planted yesterday. But Old Jaffa -- the jewel of Israel -- is all-new...on its own. It's easy to confuse Old Jaffa with Tel Aviv, since Jaffa is just a tiny...
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The Nakba Continues: The Ethnic Cleansing of Jaffa's Ajami Neighborhood
Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...EXPULSION of 90 percent of the Palestinians of Jaffa destroyed one of the region's most economically...continues to evict Palestinians remaining in Jaffa-but this time it is targeting one of...neighborhoods in the country. In March 2008 the Jaffa Popular Committee Against Housing Demolition...
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The decline of Jaffa
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/5/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...00-00-0000 Headline: The decline of Jaffa Byline: Ayelet Bechar Edition; Magazine...a group of children in the entrance to Jaffa's rundown port. I don't want them...At 47, Turk may well be the most famous Jaffa native. He made history when he became...
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Revocation of the Only Israeli Appellation of Origin, for "JAFFA".
News Wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing; 2/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...January 9, 2005, it was held that the Israel Appellation of Origin for "JAFFA" (including "Jaffas" and also "Yafo", "Jaffa" and "Jaffas" in Hebrew) ("the JAFFA AO") will not be renewed. Thus, subject to an appeal, the registration...
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Jaffa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
JAFFA An ancient port on the central coast of the...Mediterranean, south of modern Tel Aviv, Israel. Jaffa, known as Joppa in biblical times, became...Occupied by the Egyptian Ibrahim Pasha in 1831, Jaffa prospered because the Egyptians encouraged...
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Tel Aviv
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...overcrowded residential areas of Jerusalem and Jaffa. In both cities, Jews began to purchase land and build new suburbs. Jaffa is adjacent to, and today part of...initially intended as a new suburb of Jaffa. Important differences between this...
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Templars
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...also established the carriage trade from Jaffa to Jerusalem, exported wine, and established settlements in Jaffa, Haifa, Sarone (part of modern Tel Aviv...also germany and the middle east; haifa; jaffa; jerusalem; west german reparations agreement...
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Arsuf, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Crusade out of Acre southwards towards Jaffa, whence they would strike inland to Jerusalem...the north of Arsuf (some 12 miles from Jaffa), the two armies met. The day was won...forced Saladin to withdraw. The march to Jaffa was resumed. S. D. Lloyd
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Hebrew Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...1907 two groups were founded for this purpose, in Warsaw and Jaffa. This second group, consisting of amateurs who called themselves...War in 1914, and the consequent expulsion of the Jews from Jaffa by the Turkish authorities. The most important Hebrew theatre...
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