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AT CLOSE RANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at close range mean? 

AT CLOSE RANGE (adverb)
  The adverb AT CLOSE RANGE has 1 sense:

1. very closeplay

  Familiarity information: AT CLOSE RANGE used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AT CLOSE RANGE (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Very close

Synonyms:

at close range; close up

Context example:

even firing at close range he missed


 Context examples 


Since it orbits the hot white dwarf at close range, making its way around it in just 10 days, the high-energy photons from the star are gradually blowing away the planet's atmosphere.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

She was as frightened as I at the prospect, and we had reason to be gazing at close range at the gleaming teeth and dog-like mouths.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The planet orbits the hot white dwarf, the remnant of a Sun-like star, at close range, causing its atmosphere to be stripped away and form a disc of gas around the star.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

She was a pretty sight, leaping and flying toward us, and evidently bound to pass at close range.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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