Sentence examples for a portion of the surface from inspiring English sources

A region is distinguished from an area, which is usually a broader concept designating a portion of the surface of the Earth.

Steradian, unit of solid-angle measure in the International System of Units (SI), defined as the solid angle of a sphere subtended by a portion of the surface whose area is equal to the square of the sphere's radius.

The laser induces the sublimation of a portion of the surface of the asteroid, and the resultant jet of gas and debris thrusts the asteroid off its natural course.

In the single-disk configuration a portion of the surface area of the disk is used for intake and compression, a portion is used to seal against a center casing, and the remaining portion is used for expansion and exhaust.

Its Opportunity rover, which landed on the Martian surface back in 2004, is also still active — currently surveying a portion of the surface called Marathon valley.

To conduct the calibration, a portion of the surface is imaged, which leaves an area without film to create a step to the bare substrate (see Fig. 2).

RTS,S/AS02A is a pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccine candidate in which a portion of the circumsporozoite surface protein (CSP) of Plasmodium falciparum is genetically linked to hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) coexpressed in yeast with unfused HBsAg.

Erosion of the carved surface grades from extreme at the top to slight at bottom; a portion of the front surface near the left edge has split off.

To examine C3b surface density at a molecular level, a 150 × 150 nm area representing a portion of the bead surface was modeled.

On the other hand, the fragments are several inches thick, and fragments that do fit together usually mate intimately across at least a portion of the interface surface between them Our idea, not yet tested, is to develop compact signatures for these border surfaces and to search among the signatures for matches.

Phase-shifting speckle interferometry was employed to detect the out-of-plane displacement field of a portion of the observed surface of the specimen.