surroundings
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The camera cuts to Elizabeth’s actual surroundings: a New York City apartment, where the radiator clacks and hisses in place of a crackling fire, and the view is brick, not snow-dusted pasture.
From Salon
The idea helps explain why organisms are rarely perfectly matched to their surroundings.
From Science Daily
Anderson went on to spend nearly a decade at Aurora and led development of a Lidar system that bounces lasers off objects to capture surroundings in 3-D.
The film plays in much the same space—beautiful people in gorgeous surroundings with violence lurking just under the surface—as last year’s screen version of the Colleen Hoover novel “It Ends With Us.”
Walz's lab focuses on producing detailed images of macromolecular complexes, especially proteins found in cell membranes that help cells communicate with their surroundings.
From Science Daily
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