Sentence examples for axis passes from inspiring English sources

This is called the mesaxonic condition and is contrasted with the paraxonic condition of the Artiodactyla, in which the axis passes between the third and fourth toes.

This has been called paraxonic support and is contrasted with the mesaxonic limb support of the other great order of herbivorous mammals, the perissodactyls (rhinoceros, horse, tapir), in which the weight-bearing axis passes through the third or central toe alone.

"I discovered last year that a baseball can have a rough and a smooth side if the pitcher holds the ball in a special way, and if the spin axis passes through a smooth patch rather than through the stitching," Cross wrote in an e-mail, "the end result is that the ball curves in the opposite direction to that expected".

It is a line vector whose axis passes through point O with the direction s1 × s2, which restrains the one-DoF translation along its direction.

An optical axis passes through the centre of projection, C, and the principal point, C, that lies on the perpendicular image plane, I.

The vertical dark lines mark times (t in horizontal axis) when the oscillator represented by (theta_{k}(t)) (k in vertical axis) passes through zero.

Particles traveling along the axis pass from one cell to the next just as the alternating electric field reverses direction, so they always experience an accelerating field.

The motion may be analyzed from the point of view of an axis passing through the point of contact between the rolling body and the plane.

Six bonds are parallel to a vertical axis passing through the centre of the ring and are called axial (a) bonds.

By mounting the escapement and balance wheel in a rotating cage that revolves on its own axis, passing through all possible centers of gravity, Bréguet negated the distorting effect of gravitational pull on the delicate watch mechanism.

Rotation of the canals about an imaginary axis passing through the centre of each semicircle causes endolymphatic fluid to flow toward or away from the crista, generating a force that bends the cilia by displacement of a gelatinous plate resting upon the hairs.