Mach is a measure of the ratio of the velocity of an object, in this case a plane, to the velocity of sound, which equals Mach 1, or 761.2 miles per hour.

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In this case, the object is to make huge climate simulations spanning hundreds of years, and then analyse the massive banks of data that result.

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They considered whether what we call prepositions occur before or after a noun ("in the boat" versus "the boat in") and how the word order of subject and object work out in either case ("I put the dog in the boat" versus "I the dog put the canoe in").

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In the case of the note, that object is a musical instrument.

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The scanner itself consists of a digital camera with an on-board laser that determines the distance to the object, although it also apparently requires that targets be placed around the scene to properly scan the object -- or person, as the case may be.

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In the case of the microwave background, that object is the universe itself.

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Berkeley, a graduate degree in writing, and years of journalism experience, but, it turned out, my real gift, in this case, was pretending to be an inanimate object that, regardless of the fact that it had no hands or mouth, was able to talk to the world through its Facebook page.

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President Clinton's ultimate defeat on an intervention in Haiti is made even more predictable than in the case of Somalia, though, in view of the object of the exercise: After all, the announced purpose of the U.N.

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Plaintiff lawyers were careful to structure the case as one seeking injunctive relief, or a court order changing the practices they object to.

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