Sentence examples for a fixed reference point from inspiring English sources

The compass provides a fixed reference point to mark the start of each rotation.

Even psychologists, who are more comfortable with survey data, say that the lack of a fixed reference point creates problems.

A characteristic of this solution is the identification of a fixed reference point lying on the vector between the aircraft turn centres or on one of its extensions.

The Article therefore explores the distinction between goods and services at a generic level to provide a fixed reference point that can be used to pinpoint factors used by other jurisdictions to differentiate goods from services.

In this technique, the defect may be recorded on a preprepared record sheet complete with a measured distance from a fixed reference point or indicated by a marker peg or non-toxic paint.

The extension is motivated by an important application to local stereology, a collection of stereological designs based on sections through a fixed reference point that has achieved significant medical results in neuroscience and cancer grading.

This concept neglects each tumor size or shape because prescribed dose is delivered to a fixed reference points.

A particle moving in three-dimensional space can be located at each instant of time t by a position vector r drawn from some fixed reference point O. Since the position of the terminal point of r depends on time, r is a vector function of t.

"Dunes often appear in vast sand seas where not only can it be difficult to tell one dune from another, but there may be no fixed reference point against which to measure the dune's position". Ralph Lorenz, one of the study's authors, wrote in a blog post for the Planetary Society.

As suggested by Kasaj et al. [ 11], the cementoenamel junction or restoration margin was used as the fixed reference point.

The amplitude of the horizontal shift from the relaxed to the contracted situation relative to the fixed reference point X1 at the inner canthus was calculated as follows: Δ X = [ (X 2   contraction − X 1 ) − (X 2   relaxed   − X 1 ) ] where ΔX is given in the dimension of pixels in the digital photograph.