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range, large area of land unsuited to cultivation but supporting native grasses and other plants suitable for livestock grazing. Principal areas in the western hemisphere are the pampas of South America and the prairies of the United States and Canada. Originally the entire ranges of the W United States and Canada were unfenced public land. Under the Homestead Act (1862), more than 50% of the Western range land in the United States passed to private ownership and was fenced with barbed wire. The national forests and other public lands of the West still contain vast unfenced ranges; grazing permits are purchased by ranch owners. Ranges are known as summer or winter ranges according to the time of year when grazing conditions are best. Range management involves regulation of grazing and other economically productive uses of range land to prevent overgrazing or other abuse of the resource.

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range

(1) In data entry validation, a group of values from a minimum to a maximum.

(2) With spreadsheets, a series of cells that are worked on as a group. It may refer to a row, column or rectangular block defined by one corner and its diagonally opposite corner.

(3) A geographic distance.

(4) A group of frequencies.

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range

1. the total products of a manufacturer, designer, or stockist

2. Physics the distance that a particle of ionizing radiation, such as an electron or proton, can travel through a given medium, esp air, before ceasing to cause ionization

3. Maths Logic

a. (of a function) the set of values that the function takes for all possible arguments

b. (of a variable) the set of values that a variable can take

c. (of a quantifier) the set of values that the variable bound by the quantifier can take

4. the extent of pitch difference between the highest and lowest notes of a voice, instrument, etc.

5. the geographical region in which a species of plant or animal normally grows or lives

6. a series or chain of mountains

7. Nautical a line of sight taken from the sea along two or more navigational aids that mark a navigable channel

8. range of significance Philosophy Logic the set of subjects for which a given predicate is intelligible

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range [rānj]

(civil engineering)

Any series of contiguous townships of the U.S. Public Land Survey system.

(communications)

In printing telegraphy, that fraction of a perfect signal element through which the time of selection may be varied to occur earlier or later than the normal time of selection without causing errors while signals are being received; the range of a printing telegraph receiving device is commonly measured in percent of a perfect signal element by adjusting the indicator.

Upper and lower limits through which the index arm of the range-finder mechanism of a teletypewriter may be moved and still receive correct copy.

(control systems)

The maximum distance a robot's arm or wrist can travel. Also known as reach.

The volume comprising the locations to which a robot's arm or wrist can travel.

(ecology)

The area or region over which a species is distributed.

(engineering)

The distance capability of an aircraft, missile, gun, radar, or radio transmitter.

A line defined by two fixed landmarks, used for missile or vehicle testing and other test purposes.

(mathematics)

The range of a function ƒ from a setXto a setYconsists of those elementsyinYfor which there is anxinXwith ƒ(x) =y.

(mechanics)

The horizontal component of a projectile displacement at the instant it strikes the ground.

(navigation)

A line of bearing defined by a radio range.

(communications)

radio range

(nucleonics)

The distance that a given ionizing particle can penetrate a given medium before its energy drops to the point that the particle no longer produces ionization.

(physics)

The greatest distance between two particles at which a given force between them is appreciable.

(statistics)

The difference between the maximums and minimums of a variable quantity.

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