A homogeneous substance of a given thickness may be thought of as consisting of a number of equally thin layers.
Card games are typically fast, consisting of a number of deals that last only a few minutes each.
Anthemion, design consisting of a number of radiating petals, developed by the ancient Greeks from the Egyptian and Asiatic form known as the honeysuckle or lotus palmette.
Central to the city's cultural life is the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (formerly Carnegie Institute), an umbrella organization consisting of a number of institutions.
Elsewhere political organization was less sophisticated, consisting of a number of city-states in the coastal regions and of clans in the interior and the northwest.
They rejected universal stages outright, instead conceptualizing cultural evolution as "multilinear"—that is, as a process consisting of a number of forward paths of different styles and lengths.
Mr. Crist, the architect, said that while doors with a few small windows at the top are not likely to reduce the security level, those that come with a frame consisting of a number of sidelights could.
Ward L turned out to be a one-story wooden building consisting of a number of private cubicles for officers and a single big room, containing about twenty beds arranged in parallel rows, for the rest of us.
The secretary to the president, who has the duty of tidying up the conference room after board meetings, has sent us a residual scratch pad item, consisting of a number of curlicues, and the notation.
Crawler, caterpillar, or tracklaying tractors run on two continuous tracks consisting of a number of plates or pads pivoted together and joined to form a pair of endless chains, each encircling two wheels on either side of the vehicle.
JCAMP-DX is a file specification consisting of a number of LABELLED-DATA-RECORDs or LDRs.
