It may be either actual, (direct or positive.) where physical force Is put upon a man to compel him to do an act against his will, or implied, (legal or constructive.) where the relation of the parties is such that one is under subjection to the other, and is thereby constrained to do what his free will would refuse.
Related Terms. Short for low earth orbit, a satellite system used in telecommunications. LEO satellites orbit the earth between 400 and 1,000 miles above the earth's surface. LEOs are mostly used for data communication such as e-mail, paging and videoconferencing.
The best way to appreciate the size of our solar system is by creating a scaled model of it that. shows how far from the sun the eight planets are located. Astronomers use the distance between Earth. and sun, which is 93 million miles, as a new unit of measure called the Astronomical Unit. It is defined to. be exactly 1.00 for the Earth-Sun orbit distance, and we call this distance 1.00 AUs.