Sentence examples for but rather a smooth from inspiring English sources

There are no faceting effects visible in Figure ??a but rather a smooth change with the increasing substrate index: a manifestation of long-range character of direct Coulomb interaction.

The main problem arisen by this kind of mapping concerns the continuity of the SV information at the common epoch of two joining segments of data, because, in reality, as we shall see in the next section, at the two ends of the segment, what we call E11 does not show the sharp V form in its first time derivative, (according to the jerk concept), but rather a smooth evolution over several years.

Remarkably, we did not observe significant spikes in gene expression for infant and juvenile phases, but rather a smooth transition from the neonate to the adult.

In summary, it can be seen from Figure 2C that no single variable was 'too good' in explaining overall variance in the dataset, but also that none of them fell at or below the predicted noise level; there was no clear division of variables into distinct groups, but rather a smooth decline across the list.

None of the variables is too good in predicting the variance; all variables are above the predicted noise level; there is no clear dividing "cliff" in terms of variance explained, but rather a smooth decline across the list; there is a good mix of variables of different biological nature in parts of the plot with higher and lower explanatory power.

Compositions with a higher proportion of PDMSe did not form domains, but rather formed a smooth stratified coating of low surface energy PDMSe over a sub-layer of higher surface energy polyurethane.

However, the waveform is not flat, but rather forms a smooth hill.

The true analogue of a Lie group in the non-associative Lie theory is not a smooth loop, but, rather, a local loop, or a germ of a local loop (We shall use the term "infinitesimal loops" for germs of local loops).

French zoologist Georges Cuvier, as a brief footnote to the account of S. zygaena in his 1817 Le Règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée, observed that Bloch's specimen (which he labeled "z. nob. Blochii") was not a smooth hammerhead but rather a different species.

Now Samsung is saying that it wasn't "quite small" but rather "quite smooth".

The Yemeni opposition, which has promised to hold protests every Thursday for the next month, has not demanded Mr. Saleh's ouster thus far, but rather reforms and a smooth transition of power through elections.