RANGE IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does range in mean? 

• RANGE IN (verb)
  The verb RANGE IN has 1 sense:

1. direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids

  Familiarity information: RANGE IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANGE IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

home in; range in; zero in

Hypernyms (to "range in" is one way to...):

aim; direct; place; point; target (intend (something) to move towards a certain goal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

“We’ve all gotten used to having a well-controlled, narrow temperature range in our homes and offices,” said Dr Megan Davies Wykes from Cambridge’s Department of Engineering.

(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)

Polymorphisms may range in size from single nucleotide to large nucleotide sequence variation visible at the chromosomal level.

(Genetic Polymorphism, NCI Thesaurus)

These spheres range in size from 2 to 50 nanometers and form within seconds.

(Nanosphere, NCI Thesaurus)

The icy relics comprise about 4 percent of the parent comet and range in size from roughly 65 feet wide to 200 feet wide.

(Hubble Takes Close-up Look at Disintegrating Comet, NASA)

Saturn's icy moons range in size depending on their proximity to the planet — the farther from the planet, the larger.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)

The exoplanets in the study span a large range in size – from ‘mini-Neptunes’ of nearly 10 Earth masses to ‘super-Jupiters’ of over 600 Earth masses – and temperature, from nearly 20°C to over 2000°C.

(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)

1-4 kHz is not only the range in which fish sounds are found.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This range in speed of the blast wave’s outward motion is caused by differences in the density of gas surrounding the supernova remnant.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

Galactosemias range in severity depending on the nature of the genetic change, and are usually treated through avoidance of galactose in the diet, primarily from lactose in dairy products.

(Leloir Pathway of Galactose Metabolism, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Parasites range in size from tiny, one-celled organisms called protozoa to worms that can be seen with the naked eye.

(Parasitic Diseases, NIH)