Sentence examples for around an axis from inspiring English sources

The electron can be pictured as being something like Earth, spinning around an axis of rotation.

Organizing space around an axis harks back to Persian paradise garden traditions, Mr. Smith said, and the resulting triangular patterns were considered sacred geometry.

If two tropical cyclones draw near each other, they begin to rotate cyclonically around an axis connecting their centres – something meteorologists call the Fujiwhara effect.

The set, consisting of a row of revolving planks around an axis that rises and falls, takes on different formations and serves as a backdrop for sophisticated projections.

The 45-ton set consists of a row of giant planks that revolve around an axis, which can also move up and down.

Spreading in the Labrador Sea and in Baffin Bay resulted in the counterclockwise rotation of Greenland around an axis near Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic islands.

Earth rotates once every 24 hours around an axis that is tilted at an angle of 23°30′ with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun.

A series of such images in parallel planes or around an axis can show the location of abnormalities and other space-occupying lesions (especially tumours and other masses) more precisely than can conventional X-ray images.

Another Photon-Lumitype model operates on the same principle, but the disk is replaced by a drum revolving 30 times per second around an axis that coincides with the source of light.

It consists of turning the patient around an axis perfectly perpendicular to the beam plane.

A big recirculation zone can be observed around an axis parallel to the x axis.