Eclipse might be a bad choice, I'd really want the context around it, but...
Isaac Send a noteboard - 13/06/2012 01:33:37 PM
To me, it invokes an image of something blocking your ability to actually see the other sources, more than drowning them out or simply being orders of magnitude greater. Almost an inability to measure them because of the objects interference. Not so much that it is a natural source of uncertainty you can't avoid but something not native to the experiment and imposed from practical restraints. Like you were trying to measure gravity with the big balls and some bastard installed a large cistern a few hundred yards away and won't keep you meaningfully up to date about how much water is in it at any given time. It's probably a perfectly fine choice of wording but without some more details I don't know.
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Synonym wanted
12/06/2012 08:46:37 AM
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Outweigh, counterbalance, overwhelm, invalidate, nullify, make insignificant
12/06/2012 03:25:16 PM
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My impression is she understood it, but questions the legitimacy of its general definition.
12/06/2012 08:11:58 PM
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Perhaps "dwarf" or "surpass," but "eclipse" is a perfectly cromulent word.
12/06/2012 07:51:26 PM
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Agreed, they embiggen the vocabulary *NM*
13/06/2012 01:16:41 PM
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I am curious now how this ended.
29/06/2012 04:02:08 AM
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"Mask"? Not sure I know what you mean by "eclipse", but this is how I interpret it. *NM*
13/06/2012 12:44:18 PM
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Eclipse might be a bad choice, I'd really want the context around it, but...
13/06/2012 01:33:37 PM
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