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In medicine, refers to a part of the body that is farther away from the center of the body than another part. For example, the fingers are distal to the shoulder. The opposite is proximal.
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A nonnegative scalar that describes the length of a path.
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The distance between two points can be defined in ways other than euclidean. In the plane, the L m -distance between points p 1 and p 2 is given by the expression (|x 1 - x 2 | m + |y 1 - y 2 | m ) 1/m . (See page 962)
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Restrictions that prevent the market from equating social benefits and costs of an economic activity. For example, the market price of cigarettes does not reflect the indirect effect (externally) on third parties (other than the producer and the smoker), resulting in too many cigarettes being produced and consumed. The total social cost of smoking is higher than the private cost.
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Nonrealistic reproduction, or nonideal formation. In optics, it is an imperfection in an image caused by an imperfection in the optical system by which the image is produced. In electronics, distortion is a change in waveform of a signal that occurs upon passage of the signal through an instrument. Crystal distortion is the expansion of a crystal lattice near any crystal boundary surface.
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