Sentence examples for cubic form from inspiring English sources

The arms and legs may be wholly contained within the cubic form, hands and feet alone discretely protruding.

Y2O3 oxide is added to ZrO2 to stabilize the cubic form of ZrO2 and to introduce oxygen vacancies, which results in a material with a high electrical conductivity.

In some, like the great Basilca Cistern near Hagia Sophia called by the Turks the Yerebatan (Underground) Palace, old material was reused; in others, like the even more impressive Binbirdirek (Thousand and One Columns) cistern, new columns of unusually tall and slender proportions and new capitals of cubic form were designed specially.

The diamond (cubic) form of BN can be prepared by heating hexagonal BN to 1,800 °C (3,300 °F) under very high pressure (85,000 atmospheres; the pressure at sea level is one atmosphere) in the presence of an alkali metal or alkaline-earth metal catalyst.

Tungsten is a brittle refractory metal that crystallizes in body-centered cubic form.

Equation (1) has the cubic form of Eq. (2) in Additional file 1: Table S2.

Sullivan was just as much a revolutionary in his ornament as he was in his use of plain surfaces and cubic forms.

Its picturesque siting overlooking the Ashley River and its smooth concrete cubic forms, wooden shutter walls and window grids made subtlety sensual and showed that the reductive nature of modernism could still be packed with emotional power.

The simple cubic forms that used to nestle in the landscape gave way to buildings that stood on tiptoe and peered about them with glassy eyes - even when the new houses were built so close together that there was nothing to see, and the picture windows were most often draped and blinded to preserve privacy.

The whitewashed stone architecture of the Greek islands, combining basic cubic forms with a variety of free shapes and inventive projections of balconies, overhangs, and exterior stairways, has been extensively studied and acclaimed by modern architects as have the wooden churches of eastern Europe, with their delicate, needlelike wooden spires, and the wooden stave churches of Scandinavia.

In 1924, the French designer Jean-Michel Frank collaborated with Herm?on a collection of furniture, including the Confortable armchair (below) and sofa, the elegant, cubic forms of which made it one of the most admired -- and widely copied -- designs of the 20th century.