Sentence examples for carpenter's square from inspiring English sources

For that, you need a carpenter's square and straight wood that's cut with precision.

The gnomons include all of the odd numbers; these can be represented by a right angle, or a carpenter's square, as illustrated in Figure 3. Gnomons were extremely useful to the Pythagoreans.

Through high school and into her freshman year at Miami, Williams would launch out of the starting blocks with her body angled at the hips like a carpenter's square, her chest and shoulders almost parallel to the track.

Her father was a hydraulic engineer who encouraged his daughter's early display of artistic talent but drilled her in the rigors of draftsmanship and the correct use of the rule, carpenter's square and triangle.

It did require some basic tools, and, fortunately, over my checkered do-it-yourself-carpentry career, I have acquired a modest collection -- a high-quality Makita circular saw, a drill, a jigsaw, a rechargeable, battery-powered screwdriver and a metal carpenter's square, a simple plastic miter box (for 45-degree-angle cuts), a set of sturdy spring-loaded clamps and a level.

"History isn't written with a ruler, a carpenter's square or with a compass, it is not a straight line, it is an undulating line that sometimes seems to move backwards," Fernández said with reference to Macri's victory, which is seen by her and her supporters as a threat to the social programmes and progressive policies of her administration.

The tools shown in the Figure are carpenter's squares.

In the speculation on odd and even numbers, the early Pythagoreans used so-called gnōmones ("carpenter's squares").

A translucent pale yellow ikat kimono patterned with images that look like carpenter's squares is the most arresting object on view.

At both locations, a pair of concrete pipes some twelve feet tall stretch at right angles into the distance, so that from high above the facilities resemble carpenter's squares.

Kass brought to the saw well-developed craft skills, and he also responded to the shape of the saw -- as well as to the shapes of other tools like hacksaws and carpenter's squares -- with great formal ingenuity.