Sentence examples for about a horizontal axis from inspiring English sources
A compound pendulum has an extended mass, like a swinging bar, and is free to oscillate about a horizontal axis.
The increase of wind speed with height (called vertical speed shear) produces "crosswise spin," that is, rotation about a horizontal axis crosswise to the direction of wind flow.
Those machines were much smaller, and there was a wide variety of them, including models with two-bladed rotors spinning about a horizontal axis, and vertical-axis machines.
A flap-type absorber is a large thin device which extracts energy by pitching about a horizontal axis parallel to the ocean bottom.
We chose instead to use image operations to flip the text about a horizontal axis, i.e., flip (using minimal bounding boxes around words).
This package is first spun about a horizontal axis at a frequency of typically 1 Hz, for providing gyroscopic stabilization and modulating the gravity signal, and then released inside the falling capsule.
The differential accelerometer is spun about an horizontal axis at a frequency in the range 0.5 1 Hz in order to modulate, during the free fall, the signal from a possible violation of the Equivalence Principle.
Why are the creatures more or less symmetrical on a vertical axis but completely asymmetrical on a horizontal axis?
We constructed a graph with a horizontal axis representing time in years and a vertical axis representing S. Enteritidis incidence.
Rotating such a system around a horizontal axis keeps the heavy particles in suspension.
