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CLOSEST
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(superlative of 'near' or 'close') within the shortest distance
Example:
that was the time he came nearest to death
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Domain usage:
superlative (an exaggerated expression (usually of praise))
Context examples:
The 2017 encounter is the closest by this asteroid since 1890 and the closest it will ever be until after 2500.
(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)
The period of greatest risk to orbiting spacecraft will start about 90 minutes later and last about 20 minutes, when Mars will come closest to the center of the widening dust trail from the nucleus.
(Mars spacecraft prepare for close comet flyby, NASA)
The 17 residues closest to the membrane are an autonomous signal for basolateral sorting.
(Basolateral Sorting Signal, NCI Thesaurus)
The imaging of frozen-hydrated molecules and organelles permits the best possible resolution closest to the living state, free of chemical fixatives or stains.
(Cryo-Electron Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)
Saturn has rings, but it's possible that one of our closest neighbors also had rings at one point and may have them again someday.
(Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day, NASA)
Io is the closest thing we have to hell in our Solar System, a Jovian moon that features hundreds of active volcanoes and expansive lakes filled with lava.
(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, the world's largest airborne observatory, observed Comet Wirtanen as it made its closest approach to Earth in December 2018.
(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)
Closest to the black hole, the gravitational light-bending becomes so excessive that we can see the underside of the disk as a bright ring of light seemingly outlining the black hole.
(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)
The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire Short Form (OAB-q Short Form) Caused you to locate the closest restroom as soon as you arrive at a place you have never been?
(OAB-q Short Form - Locate Closest Restroom as Soon as You Arrive, NCI Thesaurus)
At the point of closest approach, it will be no closer than about 300,000 miles — 480,000 kilometers or 1.3 lunar distances.
(Halloween Asteroid a Treat for Radar Astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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