Sentence examples for absolute vertical from inspiring English sources

Some transit telescopes use a basin of mercury to form a flat and absolutely horizontal mirror, useful in determining an absolute vertical or perpendicular reference.

RMS heave-pitch motions and absolute vertical accelerations on passenger saloon for Sea State 3 at head waves are investigated for this purpose.

Findings show that the rate at which passing maneuvers end in a no-passing zone increases with traffic volume and unequal distribution of traffic in the two directions, absolute vertical grade, and percent of heavy vehicles in the subject direction.

Interferometric SAR theory provides a basis for properly identifying and accounting for the dependence of this scattering phase center height on both instrument and target characteristics, including relative and absolute vertical error and vegetation structural attributes.

The seakeeping attributes under investigation are the transfer functions of heave and pitch motions and of absolute vertical acceleration at stern, while the ship parameters influencing motion dynamics have been classified into two groups: displacement and main dimensions (L, B, T), coefficients that define the details of the hull form (CWP, CVP, LCB, LCF, etc.).

With the development of social economy and architectural aesthetics, flame spread over exterior thermal insulation system in real high-rise building fire disasters often features inclined downward or upward propagation, however most developed models for flame behavior prediction only assume absolute vertical or horizontal direction.

The absolute greatest vertical in Google's AdWords revenue is auto insurance, where State Farm, Progressive and GEICO alone accounted for $110 million in keyword advertising revenue.

The mean absolute error for vertical temperature predictions ranged from 0.7 °C to 1.13 °C.

Although many studies have focused on the thief zone formation caused by areal or vertical absolute permeability heterogeneity, the effect of increasing water saturation induced by the areal permeability heterogeneity on the formation of thief zones is not fully studied.

We calculated the averaged absolute values of vertical component in the seismograms for time windows of 1 s and plotted all processed data for one LT-OBS for each term.

The absolute number of vertical transmissions and the young age at infection highlight a public health concern.