How to pronounce“straddle”in English
string theory, everything -- it's an astonishing fact about all of these theories, even though they differ wildly from one another in all kinds of other respects, and even though they
straddle different sides of enormous scientific revolutions, it's an astonishing fact about every single one of these theories that all of them are perfectly symmetric under time
reversal. Every single one of them has the feature that for any process which is in accord with those laws, the process going in reverse is in accord with those laws as well.
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Definitions of “straddle”
To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
“But guess my surprise, when I saw the lazy young rogue lie down on his back, and gently pull down Polly upon him, who giving way to his humour, straddled, and with her hands conducted her blind favourite to the right place”
To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
“The mountain-ringed Yukon Flats basin straddles the Arctic Circle and is bisected by the Yukon River.”
A posture in which one straddles something.
A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
“The first salvo fell short; the next was long; the third was a straddle.”
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