Sentence examples for apposition from inspiring English sources

This is termed an apposition eye.

As a result, the size of an apposition eye would increase as the square of the required resolution, leading to absurdly large eyes.

Superposition eyes look superficially similar to apposition eyes in that they have an array of facets around a convex structure.

Unlike apposition eyes, where the lenses each form a small inverted image, the optical elements in superposition eyes form a single erect image, located deep in the eye on the surface of the retina.

The number of ommatidia in apposition eyes varies from a handful, as in primitive wingless insects and some ants, to as many as 30,000 in each eye of some dragonflies (order Odonata).

The lens focuses an image near the top of the clear zone (similar to an apposition eye), but oblique rays are intercepted by a parabolic mirror surface that lines the crystalline cone beneath the lens.

This is similar to the apposition lens cylinder elements in the Limulus eye (see above Apposition eyes); the difference is that the telescope lenses would be twice as long.

One part, with a small field of view, points upward, and a second part, with a wide field of view, points downward (similar to the apposition eyes of hyperiid amphipods).

Crepuscular (active at twilight) and nocturnal insects (e.g., moths), as well as many crustaceans from the dim midwater regions of the ocean, have compound eyes known as superposition eyes, which are fundamentally different from the apposition type.

This effectively converts the superposition eye into an apposition eye, since in the dark-adapted condition up to a thousand facets may contribute to the image at any one point on the retina, potentially reducing the retinal illumination a thousandfold.

I'd heard that an architect in France had constructed a modern building with an all-glass façade designed to reflect the classical cathedral across the street from it, and that, since then, such appositions had become quite fashionable.