Sentence examples for disk at the from inspiring English sources

The disk at the base of the pistil often secretes an abundance of nectar attractive to insects as well.

In addition to a reinjured knee, she now had a spasm in her shoulder and a compressed disk at the base of her spine.

After maximum phase, the crescent of the Sun widens again until the Moon passes out of the Sun's disk at the last contact.

Each small individual flower is usually bisexual, with five sepals, five petals, and an enlarged disk at the base of the style.

Being engineers, the cat-lapping team next tested its findings with a machine that mimicked a cat's tongue, using a glass disk at the end of a piston to serve as the tip.

The vertebrate retina is inverse, with the neurons emerging from the front of the retina and the nerve fibres burrowing out through the optic disk at the back of the eye to form the optic nerve.

Disk-winged bat (family Thyropteridae), any of three species of bats inhabiting Central America and northern South America that are distinguished by round disks at the base of the thumb and on the sole of the foot.

The investigators also found that Mr. Deutch began to experience technical problems with the disks at the end of his tenure at the Pentagon, prompting him to change to higher-capacity storage cards at the C.I.A.

With the exception of its wires and a pair of foot-diameter black disks at the center of each wheel, the Tidal Force is a high-end, front-suspension mountain bike whose folding frame was designed for military use.

The Iranian Students News Agencyy said that the virus, called "wiper" by its creator, had successfully erased information on hard disks at the Oil Ministry's headquarters, a hulking black glass skyscraper on Taleghani Street in central Tehran.

When Mr. Reside, a lifelong theater and computer geek as well as a trained medievalist, first encountered Larson's disks at the Library of Congress (which had acquired Larson's papers after his death), they had been cataloged but not studied.