Sentence examples similar to a rigid direction from inspiring English sources

But straight white men are generally held up as the paragons of our sexually normative culture, oriented in one rigid direction, unwavering and in fact disgusted by any other kind of sexuality.

The pointer derives its name from its assumption of a rigid posture in the direction of the quarry it has located.

The fluid outside the shell is assumed to be unlimited in the radial direction and limited in the vertical direction by a rigid bottom and a free surface.

Roughly speaking, the rotational direction of a rigid rotor is determined by the torque that the rotor is subjected to.

The three nodes on the deck translated together with almost the same displacement longitudinally for the same skew angle which suggests that the deck behaves as a rigid body in the longitudinal direction.

That is to say: in a Minkowski spacetime, if one has "rigid rods" and "clocks", and uses these in the standard ways to measure the "length" of a (rigid) moving body in the direction of its motion, it is a simple mathematical or geometrical fact that the moving body will be measured as having its length contracted in accord with the Lorentz-Fitzgerald formula.

Thus, the motion along the actuation direction is a rigid body motion.

The haltere essentially behaves as a rigid body along the actuation direction.

The rigid bodies, named 1 and 3 in Fig. 4, are characterized by a rigid translation along the horizontal and vertical direction, respectively, while, the blocks named 2 move with a rigid translation u and a rigid rotation φ.

Although Hanslick insisted in his "On the Beautiful in Music" that he was not a rigid formalist, his tendencies were certainly in that direction.

A decade ago, fashion was a rigid system.