Sentence examples for deforming from inspiring English sources

Chris Jones of iRobot says DARPA's criterion for the robot was that it had to fit through an opening half its full diameter.The result is the blob-like Chembot, which moves by deforming one side.

These pockets originate in the low-velocity layer, so named because earthquake waves travel more slowly through the hot, plastically deforming rocks of this region than in the overlying rigid plates.

Much of the region has been affected by the gradual, continuing collision of the Indian subcontinent with the Eurasian Plate over roughly the past 50 million years, an event that with diminishing intensity from west to east has been responsible for deforming the land.

In other instances, the binding of the inhibitor is believed to change the shape of the enzyme molecule, thereby deforming its active site and preventing it from reacting with its substrate.

The job of the lintel is to bear the loads that rest on it (and its own load) without deforming or breaking.

The chief flight muscles control flight in one of two ways: in dragonflies, directly on a lever at the base of each wing; but, in most insects, indirectly by deforming the shape of the thorax.

Subsurface conditions also cause subsidence or uplift, known as epeirogeny, over large areas of Earth's surface without deforming rock strata.

The lintel must bear loads that rest on it as well as its own load without deforming or breaking.

It is a refractory clay, meaning that it can be fired at high temperatures without deforming, and it is white-burning, meaning that it imparts whiteness to the finished ware.

An array of barriers on the same scale as precipitation hardening can be created by plastically deforming the metal at room temperature.

The newspaper kept its promise, but the article it published under the headline "Baby-Deforming Drug May Cost Woman Her Child Here" caused a sensation and led the hospital to cancel the scheduled procedure.