Reference in sentence

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That's its official scientific name, in reference to its deep-dwelling habits.

The only people who could notice time on the moving spaceship passing slower for Stella would be observers in an inertial, or non-accelerating, reference frame– like Terra back on Earth.

Unlike other objects, the speed of light is always constant regardless of an observer’s reference frame.

But when Stella changed her direction for the return journey, she entered a different reference frame from the one she’d started in.

I grabbed all the reference, and I found this lovely piece of reference.

I blew it up to the actual size, and I began using that, along with all the other reference that I had, comparing it to it as size reference for figuring out exactly how big the beak should be, exactly how long, etc.

I'd bought a replica, a really crappy replica, of the Maltese Falcon on eBay, and had downloaded enough pictures to actually have some reasonable reference.

But I discovered, in researching further, really wanting precise reference, that one of the original lead birds had been sold at Christie's in 1994, and so I contacted an antiquarian bookseller who had the original Christie's catalogue, and in it I found this magnificent picture, which included a size reference.

I found other reference.

So what I did was, again, like I did with the dodo skull, I blew all my reference up to full size, and then I began cutting out the negatives and using those templates as shape references.

And that, to me, was a reference point that I think I needed to have to be able to make the work that I did.

And yet simply by changing the frame of reference it reveals so much, including what ended up being the TED Prize.

Considering one column at a time as the point of reference, Hedge can look to the left stack by stack to find the height of the tallest one, look to the right to find the height of the tallest one, and take the smaller of the two as the height the energy can fill up to.

And just to give you a sense of reference, the U.N. actually estimate that for half that amount, for about 75 billion dollars a year, we could solve all major basic problems in the world.

Or if you take an American reference, to the U.S. Capitol Building and you pack 3,000 Capitol Buildings into that block, it would be equivalent to how large that block was.

For an average noun or an average verb, an average mind can quickly create reference.

And a good writer or orator is one who knows that when he uses a certain word, an average mind will associate it with a certain reference, specific memories will be evoked.

These drawings defy easy classification— suggesting, but never quite matching, any specific natural reference.

But I'd just like to quote, finish at the end with a reference to a British author, an Oxford author whom I don't quote very often, C.S. Lewis.

Now, I explained this growth of complexity by reference to something called "non-zero sumness."

And they scrawled on the windshield in a reference to the show's heroine, "Tulsi Zindabad": "Long live Tulsi."

Now, there are other ways that you get somebody to open up, and this is just a brief reference.

And one of them made reference to a series of books called "The One-Minute Bedtime Story."

We lack even a vocabulary to deal with this problem, and that's because we have the wrong frame of reference.

It doesn't come into my frame of reference."

We are living on a planet with a lot of activities, with reference to our living environment, done by faith and guess alone.

It's got, by now, pretty good coverage of everything you might find in a standard reference library.

You saw one reference to that in what we were able to do with AIDS drugs.

Now, a superorganism is a collection of individuals which show or evince behaviors or phenomena that are not reducible to the study of individuals and that must be understood by reference to, and by studying, the collective.

People still reference those sequences in "Minority Report" when they talk about new UI design.

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