Sentence examples for compressed about from inspiring English sources
The San Gabriels are being compressed about a tenth of an inch a year.
Thus in a turbojet, ambient air is taken in at the engine inlet (induction), compressed about 10 to 15 times in a compressor consisting of rotor and stator blades (compression), and introduced into a combustion chamber where igniters ignite the injected fuel (combustion).
Nanometer scale deformation of this coating produced a non-linear elastic response with high initial resistance followed by more compliant behavior before higher resistance showed up again in highly compressed (about 60% of initial thickness) state.
The attainment scores are again compressed about a high mean value, and the ability to discriminate is not much improved, with 75% of countries receiving attainment scores of 93 or above.
The camcorder, which has a 10X optical zoom and a 100X digital zoom, captures video images in the MPEG-4 ASP format, which Samsung says can compress about 34 minutes of high-quality video onto a gigabyte of memory.
When New Jersey announced last spring that it was going to compress about half of 25 years of annual payments of $250 million to $270 million from the tobacco settlement into $1.1 billion for fiscal year 2003, the governor's budget said that this fiscal maneuver would not put the state's "credit rating at risk".
Prince is an appreciator as much as an innovator, and he compresses about 50 years of guitar history into 12 tracks: the screaming punctuations on the feedback-saturated "Ain'tTurnin'Round" and "AnotherLove," the Curtis Mayfielyricism lyricism of "Whitecaps," the punky urgency of "Marz".
A properly inflated fitness ball should compress about 6 inches when you sit on it.
According to the American Council on Exercise, a properly inflated stability ball should compress about six inches beneath you.
His constant guilt had here compressed, her about-to-be-abandoned face a crystallization of the seducer's shame he had failed to feel on other, more plausible occasions.
A 243 GB compressed dataset takes about 1.5 h to analyze.
