SHORT-RANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does short-range mean? 

• SHORT-RANGE (adjective)
  The adjective SHORT-RANGE has 2 senses:

1. relating to the near future

2. limited to short distances

  Familiarity information: SHORT-RANGE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORT-RANGE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to the near future

Context example:

a short-range policy

Similar:

short (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Limited to short distances

Context example:

a short-range shot

Similar:

short ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes ephrin type-A receptor 8 protein, plays a role in mediating developmental events such as short-range contact-mediated axonal guidance during nervous system development.

(EPHA8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Due to their use as a means of payment, mobile phones are equipped with another short-range communication link for reading credit cards and RFID tags, more properly known as near-field communication, or NFC.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

When exposed to neutron irradiation, boronophenylalanine absorbs neutrons and self-destructs releasing short-range alpha radiation and 'recoil' lithium in tumor cells, resulting in alpha radiation-induced tumor cell death.

(Boronophenylalanine-fructose complex, NCI Thesaurus)

A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

(Cellular Telephone, NCI Thesaurus)