Sentence examples for alternate bands from inspiring English sources

If chalcedony is conspicuously colour-banded, it may be called agate; onyx is agate with alternate bands of white and black or dark brown.

In regions of natural erosion, alternate bands of crop and fallow occur.

That can be addressed with multifocal lenses, which have concentric rings of material that offer alternate bands of near and distant vision.

As a result, a "fringe interference" pattern (alternate bands of light and dark) was detected that depended on the precise rate of rotation of the turntable.

Along the length of each myofibril alternate sets of thick and thin filaments overlap, or interdigitate, presenting alternate bands of dark regions (with thick filaments and overlapping thin ones) and light regions (with only thin filaments).

The show does not neglect his monumental pieces, which solar discs in stone; low-lying carved stone landscapes, and the sleek "Bow" of 1970, an elegantly bent tube composed of alternate bands of black granite and yellow marble, are displayed in the last gallery.

Indeed, translational control via an Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) has been demonstrated for the expression of XIAP [ 18]. *indicates the presence of an alternate band (- not expressed; + expressed; ++ highly expressed; N/A - not tested) We have described here the isolation and characterization of rat homologues of iap-1, 2 and 3 genes.

Alternating bands of transparent and blue tinted glass indicate the position of production and presentation areas.

The MJO is characterised by alternating bands of thunderstorms and dry weather.

Alternating bands of stone on the corners will echo the walls of the Chora church.

Onyx, striped, semiprecious variety of the silica mineral agate with white and black alternating bands.