The whole apparatus – consisting of wood, leather, plant fibre, hair and feathers – weighs about 25kg.
We set up 2 identical apparatus consisting of a glass tube, attached to a battery powered bed pump.
What came up was a carefully constructed apparatus consisting of a cylinder and a sharpened dowel: a nonmetallic pressure switch.
Radio interferometer, apparatus consisting of two or more separate antennas that receive radio waves from the same astronomical object and are joined to the same receiver.
To test his theory, Cockerell set up an apparatus consisting of a blower that fed air into an inverted coffee tin through a hole in the base.
The inner ear consists of two functional units: the vestibular apparatus, consisting of the vestibule and semicircular canals, which contains the sensory organs of postural equilibrium; and the snail-shell-like cochlea, which contains the sensory organ of hearing.
Rings, also called still rings, gymnastics apparatus consisting of two small circles that are suspended by straps from an overhead support and grasped by the gymnast while performing various exercises.
The process is carried out in an electrolytic cell, an apparatus consisting of positive and negative electrodes held apart and dipped into a solution containing positively and negatively charged ions.
Responding to the shocks of the Communist revolution in China, the Soviets' atom bomb and the onset of the Korean War, Washington created a vast new permanent security apparatus, consisting of the Pentagon, the F.B.I., the C.I.A. (along with the smaller intelligence agencies) and the National Security Council.
Ricardo invented the concept of the economic model a tightly knit logical apparatus consisting of a few strategic variables that was capable of yielding, after some manipulation and the addition of a few empirically observable extras, results of enormous practical import.
After macroscopic evaluation during necropsy, the genitourinary (GU) apparatus [consisting of the anterior prostate, dorsolateral prostate (DL), ventral prostate, seminal vesicle, bladder, proximal ductal deference and proximal urethra] was dissected and weighed to assess the effect of diet on GU weight.
