Sentence examples for contour rather than from inspiring English sources

This notation, for liturgical chant, consists of neumes i.e., symbols representing melodic contour rather than precise pitch, similar to the earliest music writing of medieval Europe.

If there is a slight amount of undercutting, its purpose is to give emphasis, by means of cast shadow, to a contour rather than to give any impression that the forms are independent of their background.

One important conclusion from our study is that the bioluminescent signal contour rather than the bioluminescent radiance correlates with tumor size.

For example, Wong and Henriques [47] assessed proprioceptive shifts in terms of judgments of the inclination of a felt contour rather than in terms of the matching of instructed movement directions.

Computational time for two holes is kept below 1 s and robustness is increased by extracting only significant landmarks from the hole contour rather than processing the entire projection shape.

"We wanted to map it out," says Levine, "to describe its contours, rather than just complain about it".

He was praised by ancient critics as a master of outline drawing, and he apparently relied on subtle contours rather than the new technique of chiaroscuro to suggest the mass of the human body.

Singers dwell meditatively on single notes, which are inflected with flickering bends and ornaments; such gestures accumulate into quivering, ephemeral contours rather than the heaving melodies typical of opera.

The spread of cable and the Internet, on the other hand, has balkanized and demystified travel, taming even the most remote parts of the world to suit the demands of a grilling contest on the Food Network or bikini modeling on "Get Out!" an extreme travel series on HDNet that takes scantily clad women to exotic locales, then lingers on their contours rather than the surrounding terrain's.

Cortical responsiveness to visual stimulation at different angles is considerably homogeneous and preferentially activated by cardinal contours rather than by contours at oblique angles (oblique effect [44]), with response peaks around 0° and 90° orientations.

If we consider the visual world to be more commonly composed of continuous contours rather than abrupt changes in feature orientation, low level visual features with similar orientation preferences would be more commonly coactive than those sets with perpendicular orientation preferences.