Sentence examples for circumscribing and from inspiring English sources

It struck him suddenly that the spacing among the six Copernican planets might be explained by circumscribing and inscribing each orbit with one of the five regular polyhedrons.

The Greek mathematician Archimedes (c. 287 212/211 bce) used the method of exhaustion to obtain upper and lower bounds for π by circumscribing and inscribing regular polygons about a circle.

If now the ratios of the mean orbital distances agreed with the ratios obtained from circumscribing and inscribing the polyhedrons, then, Kepler felt confidently, he would have discovered the architecture of the universe.

In the final stage, the classical monolithic shell theory based on an energy dissipation rate balance approach is employed; and the "upper" and "lower" bounds of the maximum back face-sheet central point deflections and response time are obtained by incorporating a comprehensive circumscribing and inscribing yield loci.

The five solids were conceived of as circumscribing and inscribed in the spheres of the orbits of the planets, so that the five solids corresponded to the six planets known to Kepler (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury).

The apparatus of the Filofax circumscribed and elevated my identity.

But these provisions are carefully circumscribed and do not usually allow change by simple majority.

Rarely, however, has a subculture been circumscribed and zoomed in on so closely.

Now, in the faux internal NHS economy, medical problems are circumscribed and priced.

To be sure, his days are circumscribed, and he spends a lot of time watching TV.

The private sector remained closely circumscribed, and crushed by high tax rates and bureaucracy.