relative
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This shift alters how the atoms interact with one another through dipolar exchange, which depends on their relative angles.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
The index is derived from how surveyed residents rate their satisfaction in nine quality-of-life categories and about 40 sub-categories, while also rating the relative importance of each measure.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
In turn, Germany was pushed to the edge of starvation, despite its relative food self-sufficiency, because Britain’s counter-blockade worsened the domestic fact that horses and farmers were sent from grainfields to the battlefields.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The indicator is quicker to react to changes in market sentiment relative to the 200-day moving average, another technical benchmark that tracks longer-term trends.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
The observed pattern of behaviour of the planets is also linked, in the Copernican model, to their distances from the Sun relative to the distance of the Earth from the Sun.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing relative
Hatchet
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Measurement and Data, List 1
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