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  • 1Distance matrices in phylogeny — Distance matrices are used in phylogeny as non parametric distance methods were originally applied to phenetic data using a matrix of pairwise distances. These distances are then reconciled to produce a tree (a phylogram, with informative branch… …

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  • 2Time-Domain Thermoreflectance — is a method by which the thermal properties of a material can be measured, most importantly thermal conductivity. This method can be applied most notably to thin film materials (up to hundreds of nanometers thick), which have properties that vary …

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  • 3Time — This article is about the measurement. For the magazine, see Time (magazine). For other uses, see Time (disambiguation). The flow of sand in an hourglass can be used to keep track of elapsed time. It also concretely represents the present as… …

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  • 4Time in physics — In physics, the treatment of time is a central issue. It has been treated as a question of geometry. One can measure time and treat it as a geometrical dimension, such as length, and perform mathematical operations on it. It is a scalar quantity… …

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  • 5Time-of-flight — The time of flight (TOF) describes the method used to measure the time that it takes for a particle, object or stream to reach a detector while traveling over a known distance. In time of flight mass spectrometry, ions are accelerated by an… …

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  • 6Time-domain reflectometer — A time domain reflectometer (TDR) is an electronic instrument used to characterize and locate faults in metallic cables (for example, twisted wire pairs, coaxial cables). The equivalent device for optical fiber is an optical time domain… …

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  • 7Time travel — This article details time travel itself. For other uses, see Time Traveler. Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in… …

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  • 8Time signal — These automatic signal clocks were synchronized by telegraphy in 1905 before the widespread use of radio A time signal is a visible, audible, mechanical, or electronic signal used as a reference to determine the time of day. Contents 1 Audible… …

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  • 9Cosmic distance ladder — * Light green boxes: Technique applicable to star forming galaxies. * Light blue boxes: Technique applicable to Population II galaxies. * Light Purple boxes: Geometric distance technique. * Light Red box: The planetary nebula luminosity function… …

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  • 10Astronomical distance — Astronomical distances are distances in outer space, occurring on a much larger scale than those on Earth. For instance, the distance to (Proxima Centauri), the closest star to our solar system, is about 40,000,000,000,000 kilometers.For this… …

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