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Longevity is long life or existence. Reflections on longevity have usually gone beyond acknowledging the basic shortness of human life and included thinking about, and conceiving, methods to extend life (indefinitely). Longevity has been a topic not only for the scientific community but also for writers of travel, science fiction and utopian novels. ...
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| Long |
Longitude, sometimes denoted λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. Longitude is given as an angular measurement ranging from 0?at the Prime Meridian to +180?eastward and −180?westward. Unlike latitude, which has the equator as a natural starting position, there is no natural starting position for longitude. Therefore, a reference meridian had to be chosen. ...
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| longsightedness |
Hyperopia (or more rarely, hypermetropia), also known as farsightedness or longsightedness, is a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball is too short), causing inability to focus on near objects, and in extreme cases causing a sufferer to be unable to focus on objects at any distance. As an object moves towards the eye, the eye must increase its power to keep the image on the retina. ...
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| longevity |
The length or duration of life; compare to survivorship.
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| longitudinal wave |
(Also called compressional wave.) An irrotational plane wave A parallel to the propagation direction in the sense that if A = A 0 exp(ik ?x - i t), where k is the wave vector, then k ?A = 0. An example is an acoustic wave in an inviscid medium. Compare transverse wave.
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