Sentence examples for act as a type from inspiring English sources

They act as a type of pupil, protecting the rhabdom in bright conditions by absorbing light.

For example, hip guards that are inserted in pockets in a special undergarment can act as a type of body armour to protect the hip.

DP also act as a type of income insurance for farmers which crowds out other "natural" risk management strategies such as diversification and may induce less risk averse behaviour (El Benni et al. 2012; Falco et al. 2014).

To make expected utility track efficacy rather than auspiciousness, causal decision theory interprets the probability of a state if one performs an act as a type of causal probability rather than as a standard conditional probability.

Analysis of the affinity of 6g for active and inactive forms of Abl1, an RTK protein that does not belong to the TAM subfamily, together with the binding modes of 6g predicted by docking studies, indicates that 6g displays some selectivity for the TAM family and may act as a type II inhibitor.

The proposed rock-shed protection is made of reinforced concrete slabs held up by specially designed supports that act as a type of expendable fuse to absorb high rock-fall energy especially when shock occurs on the side of the slab.

Those contracts, called credit default swaps, acted as a type of insurance on the debt securities, making them more attractive to buyers.

The company, which we tipped at 1012p, provides financial advice, but also acts as a type of investment supermarket for those happy to manage their own finances.

Music acts as "a type of legal performance-enhancing drug," giving athletes more stamina, more energy and increased ability to ignore and overcome pain, says a wealth of research.

In a sense, the SOFAR channel acts as a type of acoustic waveguide that focusses sound; as a consequence, several watts of sound can be detected as far away as 2,000 kilometres or so.

The volume of the box thus acts as a type of Helmholtz resonator, with a resonant frequency that is determined by the geometry of the hole or tube and is deliberately chosen so that it extends the frequency range of the speaker system smoothly to a significantly lower value.