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Definition of Long-range

1. Adjective. Involving an extended span of time. "Long-range goals"

2. Adjective. Suitable for or reaching long distances. "Long-range nuclear capability"

Definition of Long-range

1. Adjective. Capable of operating over a great distance. ¹

2. Adjective. Involving a great period of time. ¹

3. Adjective. travelling over a long distance ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Long-range

long-leg arthropathy long-legged long-legged buzzard long-legged buzzards long-legs long-life long-lining long-lived long-lost long-neck

long-neck clam long-nose long-period long-play long-playing long-range (current term) long-ranger long-rangers long-run long-running

long-shanked long-sighted long-sightedness long-since long-snouted long-span long-spined bullhead long-spined bullheads long-spurred violet long-standing

Literary usage of Long-range

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Sights that have been fixed for the long range are not changed to the short. ... It may be the case that a very highly trained army, using long-range volley ..."

2. OECD Environmental Performance Reviews by OECD., Lorents G. (FRW) Lorentsen, OECD Staff (2004)
"... in the framework of the UNECE Convention on Long- range Transboundary Air ... Box 8.1 Protecting the Arctic from long-range POPs pollution The Arctic, ..."

3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander Kinglake (1877)
"Two long- range batteries commenced by the English. ... Those long-range Lancaster batteries, though intended, of course, to be auxiliary to the main ..."

4. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"The British in desperate fighting used few troops other EMPLACEMENT FOR THE long-range GERMAN GUN than those which held front lines. ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"We propose that the major contribution to the line width, at these temperatures, is the long- range coupling between the nonequivalent methyl groups. ..."

6. U. S. Spectrum Management Policy: Agenda for the Future (1994)
"Non-Federal Long-Range Planning Activities In 1989, a GAO report noted the FCC's lack of a formal long-range planning process for anticipating future ..."

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