Sentence examples for close to perpendicular from inspiring English sources

Some are mounted in the conventional way, tilted so that the sun's rays strike close to perpendicular to improve conversion efficiency.

This pattern may be satisfied by structures in which the strands align close to perpendicular to the fibre axis and are regularly arranged to form β-sheet ribbons.

The distribution of the heavy ions have a peak in the radially outward direction, close to perpendicular to the sun-planet line.

In order to minimise the surface deviation of the triangulated strips, we tested a second triangulation method that deals better with situations where the main surface curvature direction is close to perpendicular to the panel's length direction.

Because our sensor is so close to the surface, the direction of observation and the surface normal are close to perpendicular, leading to a low observable emissivity, so the blackbody radiation emitted by the sea surface will not feature in the signal received at the sensor.

The collection of stars rises close to perpendicular to the plane of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.

We don't sail into the wind – or too close to it, as the maxim goes – but something closer to perpendicular to it.

Gravity vectors computed for the two lobes separately are closer to perpendicular to the strata than those calculated for the entire nucleus and adjacent to the neck separating the two lobes.

We see that the components are largely antiparallel in the polar cap when it is dark and closer to perpendicular in sunlight.

Convergence across the boundary is close to trench-perpendicular at roughly 92 mm/yr (DeMets et al., 2010).

However, a number are found in an inverted orientation (see blue dots) in positions that lie close to a diagonal perpendicular to the red diagonal.