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closest date vs nearest date

Both 'closest date' and 'nearest date' are correct and commonly used phrases in English. They can be used interchangeably to refer to the date that is physically or temporally the shortest distance away. The two phrases do not have any notable differentiation in meaning.
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closest date

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

It refers to the date that is physically or temporally the shortest distance away.

Examples:

  • Please let me know the closest date available for the appointment.
  • The closest date for the event is next Friday.
  • May 2, 2014 ... Which sounds more natural? The closest date is ... or. The nearest date is ... Context: It is a variable name ...
  • May 29, 2017 ... I am interested in selecting the bloodtestdate which is the closest date to the interview date plus or minus one year.
  • Jul 7, 2014 ... I am trying to merge two dataframes on both name and the closest date (WRT the left hand dataframe). In my research I found one similar question here but it ...
  • Beatrix Balogh (Member) asked a question. May 9, 2018 at 6:43 PM. Calculated Field for Closest Date before Today(). Hi all, I'm struggling with how to ...
  • Nov 29, 2009 ... i have to find the closest date in a table ( query ) 3 tables sale table 22/nov/2009 can anyone help me to find the closest date to.. thank ...
  • May 22, 2017 ... I have 2 date fields, due date and call dates. I need to filter my call dates by the due date, based on the closest date within the month of the due date.
  • Aug 14, 2017 ... How to join based on closest date ... Hi all! I'm having trouble joining my two datasets based on some date logic. I have one dataset with survey ...
  • Merging Tables and picking the closest date. ‎08-13-2020 02:07 AM. Hello,. I'd ... Merging Tables and picking the closest date.pbix. 32 KB. Message 2 of 9.
  • Aug 24, 2023 ... Joining to the next closest date ... Hi all! I've looked at some solutions but haven't been able to solve my problem yet. I am trying to join two ...
  • Mar 14, 2023 ... I also have a measure that will give me the closest date for each employee that is less than the selected date, or if there isn't one, it will ...

Alternatives:

  • nearest date
  • most immediate date
  • upcoming date
  • soonest date
  • next date

nearest date

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

It also refers to the date that is physically or temporally the shortest distance away.

Examples:

  • Please select the nearest date for the meeting.
  • The nearest date for the deadline is tomorrow.
  • May 2, 2014 ... closest date yields 55k results of Google, vs 33k for nearest date. meaning · comparatives · dates · Share.
  • Jan 10, 2011 ... Add... you added in the edit after my comment. · Your title is misleading, it is probably "select ID order by nearest date" · your example using ...
  • Apr 20, 2020 ... Return Nearest Date and Value ... This one is perplexing me.... Thought this would be easy... but no. I have a situation where I have a tolerance ...
  • May 31, 2011 ... SQL Query to show nearest date? ... I'm trying to figure out how to write a MySQL query that will return the closest 3 events in terms of date.
  • Apr 29, 2022 ... How to find nearest date? ... I currently have a list of dates in a slicer in single select: ... The list consist of today's date and the date for ...
  • May 29, 2017 ... ... nearest date and appending it to all observations. To simply tag the first observation within each id as 1 and the remainder as 0, egen is ...
  • Note always return Market price for nearest date in past, Market Price date is not always at end of month, as i may have mid month prices in some months. Solved ...
  • Jul 19, 2020 ... I'm facing a problem to get that constraint, all I can see is <, > & = but anywhere that I can find “nearest date”? image1017×631 29.9 ...
  • I have 2 tables that I need to join and create 1. They need to join on their ID's and dates where date1 from table1 is the nearest date before date2 table2.
  • Dec 27, 2016 ... nearest-date. Given an array of dates, this module will find the date nearest to a given target date. Can be used to find the nearest number ...

Alternatives:

  • closest date
  • most immediate date
  • upcoming date
  • soonest date
  • next date

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