Sentence examples for an extended object from inspiring English sources

The pupils of a lens system can be regarded as the common bases of oblique beams passing through the system from all points in an extended object.

In string theory, on the other hand, particles are thought to be different vibrations of an extended object, similar to different tones coming from the same guitar string.

A single point of light, which may be a point in an extended object, emits light in the form of a continually expanding train of waves, spherical in shape and centred about the point of light.

Agents use a content specification language based on an extended object model to specify the requirements, constraints, and negotiation strategic rules, which are used by the negotiation server to conduct a negotiation.

By the beginning of the 17th century, however, it was known that rays of light travel in straight lines, and in 1604 Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer, published a book on optics in which he postulated that an extended object could be regarded as a multitude of separate points, each point emitting rays of light in all directions.

Our confused perception of this temporal interaction results in the idea of an extended object.

We designed a novel battery to probe two generic processes of fundamental relevance to ASA: the segregation of coincident sounds into separate sound objects; and the perceptual grouping of temporally spaced sounds into a single extended object (a sound 'stream'stream

Another ingenious idea, suggested by Hawley, is that the two spheres be redescribed as a simple extended object, contrary to the intuition that a simple extended object must have a connected location (Markosian 1998).

The grouping of information at a single location is a relatively easy problem if compared with the grouping of features at different locations of a spatially extended object (see Shadlen & Movshon, 1999).

Theorist John Schwarz defines the string as an ultramicroscopic vibrating "one dimensional extended object". The braneworld scenario is redicated on a modification of string theory in which a new fundamental [End Page 77] object is introduced, the "brane" (from membrane), which theorists define qualitatively as a two or more dimensional extended vibrating object with special properties.

This third part of the argument is rather badly put but it seems to run something like this: suppose there is a plurality, so some spatially extended object exists (after all, he's just argued that inextended things do not exist).