Sentence examples for arc of a circle from inspiring English sources

An arc of a circle was selected as generatrix to model such an axi-symmetric part.

He headed east and, two and a half months later, was on the final arc of a circle around the globe that involved trains, boats, buses, and trucks.

The device consists of an arc of a circle, marked off in degrees, and a movable radial arm pivoted at the centre of the circle.

In this paper, a mathematical model of the spherical involute tooth surface of a spiral bevel gear whose generating curve is an arc of a circle is built.

With this decomposition, the acoustic field is located by the arc of a circle in plots of radial against streamwise wavenumber for discrete frequencies.

This brings into play elementary school geometry: The plane, after many hours of flying, must be somewhere along the arc of a circle that has a diameter of thousands of miles.

Many have two lobes of bright material, resembling arcs of a circle, connected by a bridge, somewhat resembling the letter Z.

Investigators said that the electronic "pings" put its last known position on one of two arcs of a circle emanating out from the satellite that detected it.

The curve in an arch may be semicircular, segmental (consisting of less than one-half of a circle), or pointed (two intersecting arcs of a circle); noncircular curves can also be used successfully.

The form may be varied to meet specific problems; the most efficient forms in masonry are semicircular, segmental (segment of a circle), and pointed (two intersecting arcs of a circle), but noncircular curves can be used successfully.

It can be taken as a basic approximation that the alignment of the center of a road is a succession of straight lines connected by arcs of a circle.