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• position line — A line indicating a series of positions at which the observer is estimated to be at the time of observation. These can be straight, curved, hemispherical, or irregular lines, depending on the information they convey. Circular position lines… …   Aviation dictionary

• Position fixing — is the branch of navigation concerned with the use of a variety of visual and electronic methods to determine the position of a ship, aircraft or person on the surface of the Earth.These techniques include:* Position lines and position circles *… …   Wikipedia

• Position (Obstetrics) — Position of the fetus in Obstetrics refers to the of the presenting part with the pelvis of the mother. Conventionally, it is the position assumed by the fetus before the process of birth as during the course of childbirth, the fetus assumes… …   Wikipedia

• position — 1 Position, stand, attitude denote a more or less fixed mental point of view or way of regarding something. Position and stand both imply reference to a question at issue or to a matter about which there is difference of opinion. Position,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Position effect — is the effect on the expression of a gene when its location in a chromosome is changed, often by translocation. This has been well described in Drosophila with respect to eye color and is known as position effect variegation (PEV). [cite journal… …   Wikipedia

• Position-independent code — In computing, position independent code (PIC) or position independent executable (PIE) is machine instruction code that executes properly regardless of where in memory it resides. PIC is commonly used for shared libraries, so that the same… …   Wikipedia

• position — 01. What [position] does your daughter play on her baseball team? 02. Many people say that playing goalie is the most difficult [position] in hockey. 03. I must have slept in a strange [position] last night because I woke up with a really sore… …   Grammatical examples in English

• position limit — The maximum number of speculative futures contracts one can hold as determined by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and/or the exchange upon which the contract is traded. Also referred to as trading limit. Chicago Board of Trade glossary… …   Financial and business terms

• Known-plaintext attack — The known plaintext attack (KPA) is an attack model for cryptanalysis where the attacker has samples of both the plaintext (called a crib), and its encrypted version (ciphertext). These can be used to reveal further secret information such as… …   Wikipedia

• Position der Erde im Universum — Die Position der Erde im Universum ist uns heute relativ detailliert bekannt, was auf die Fortschritte der praktischen wie theoretischen Astronomie in den letzten 400 Jahren und besonders im vergangenen Jahrhundert zurückzuführen ist.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• position dilution of precision — The geometric effect resulting from satellites being too close together. Satellites that appear farther apart in the sky provide a more accurate position solution than ones close together. In the latter case, the position accuracy is degraded in… …   Aviation dictionary