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    Body relative directions (also known as egocentric coordinates) are geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a human person's body or a road...
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    positive scalar product (or scalar projection). Body relative direction Euclidean vector Tangent direction Sometimes, parallel and antiparallel are used...
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    the orientation, attitude, bearing, direction, or angular position of an object – such as a line, plane or rigid body – is part of the description of how...
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  • Look up direction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Direction may refer to: Body relative direction, for instance left, right, forward, backwards, up...
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  • articles in probability theory Left–right discrimination (LRD) in body relative direction Lifestyle-related diseases (LRD) in Lifestyle medicine Landing...
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    than relative direction even when indicating the position of an object close to their body. (For more information, see: Cultures without relative directions...
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    position, or clock bearing, is the direction of an object observed from a vehicle, typically a vessel or an aircraft, relative to the orientation of the vehicle...
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  • nonliving objects, to have an orientation, described by the concept of body relative direction. Aristotle reasoned that concepts of "front" and "back" were only...
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  • aeronautics, the relative wind is the direction of movement of the atmosphere relative to an aircraft or an airfoil. It is opposite to the direction of movement...
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  • when a body is constrained to move only along a straight line. Its position can then be given by a single number, indicating where it is relative to some...
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    any direction. Spondylolisthesis is graded based upon the degree of slippage of one vertebral body relative to the subsequent adjacent vertebral body. Spondylolisthesis...
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    explained below. The escape velocity relative to the surface of a rotating body depends on direction in which the escaping body travels. For example, as the Earth's...
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    body has its own distinct center of rotation, then the relative center of rotation between the bodies has to lie somewhere on the line connecting the two...
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  • Upright may refer to: Body relative direction, the geometrical orientation of a person etc. Upright (TV series), Australian drama Upright Technologies...
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    of reference to an observer, measuring the change in position of the body relative to that frame with a change in time. The branch of physics describing...
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    Drag coefficient (redirect from Bluff body)
    and a body, when there is relative motion, can only be transmitted by normal pressure and tangential friction stresses. So, for the whole body, the drag...
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    degrees. Thus, it is the same as azimuth. Relative bearing refers to the angle between the craft's forward direction (heading) and the location of another...
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    engage multiple joints simultaneously as the resistance moves relative to an anchored body part, promoting functional and efficient movement patterns. Calisthenics'...
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    Velocity is a measurement of speed in a certain direction of motion. It is a fundamental concept in kinematics, the branch of classical mechanics that...
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    Clockwise motion (abbreviated CW) proceeds in the same direction as a clock's hands relative to the observer: from the top to the right, then down and...
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    change of its angular position relative to the origin. [citation needed] Spin angular velocity refers to how fast a rigid body rotates around a fixed axis...
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    acceleration of a body relative to a free-fall condition, is measured by an instrument called an accelerometer. In classical mechanics, for a body with constant...
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    a direction perpendicular to two quantities: the angular velocity of the rotating frame relative to the inertial frame and the velocity of the body relative...
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  • scientific fields, are the two types of chirality ("handedness") or relative direction. The terms are derived from the Latin words for "left" (sinister)...
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    frequency, the intensity of radiation which is emitted and reflected from a body relative to other frequencies (that is, the net amount of radiation leaving its...
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    driven wheels placed on either side of the robot body. It can thus change its direction by varying the relative rate of rotation of its wheels and hence does...
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    sections of the body. The terminology used describes this motion according to its direction relative to the anatomical position of the body parts involved...
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    force exerted on a body by the air (or other gas) in which the body is immersed, and is due to the relative motion between the body and the gas. There...
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    the direction of a movement relative to the body. For example, anterolateral indicates a position that is both anterior and lateral to the body axis...
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    Horseshoe orbit (category Three-body orbits)
    body relative to a larger orbiting body. The osculating (instantaneous) orbital period of the smaller body remains very near that of the larger body,...
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