Sentence examples for dividers from inspiring English sources

The divider underwent refinements that made it an important drafting instrument for Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci Leonardoo suggested improvements that included the knuckle-joint hinge (to increase rigidity) and the adjustable proportional divider (Roman proportional dividers had a fixed pivot that gave only one ratio).

But even with a makeshift partition instead of a real wall — he suggested buying a temporary divider from Room Dividers NY or building "a wall-like partition" — and with Mr. Buck doing all the painting himself, the total came out to about $3,400.

Instead he warned against the influence of extremists in the party whom he called "dividers".

To state the obvious, Western imperialists were not the only dividers of cities.

That is no doubt part of Mr Brown's plan, which imposes restrictions on golf courses and cemeteries and requires the use of non-potable water on median dividers.

To get them to work together rather than glowering at each other across their cubicle dividers, the firm is encouraging them to do voluntary work in cross-generational teams.

Four centuries underwater have rendered it opaque, but it is the right shape and density to be Iceland spar, and it was discovered within a metre of a pair of navigational dividers of the sort used to measure distances on charts.Dr Ropars's latest research, just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, used spectroscopy to confirm the stone's composition as calcite.

As Atlas Obscura explains:Visitors to the hotel would enter through a thick blast door behind the apartments above, where they would then be checked in at a tiny reception kiosk before being led to one of two large rooms where the beds were placed in rows with no dividers.

At the festival's trade fair, 100%, Mr Kelley launched BOB, a magnetic modular system that can be arranged to create wall dividers, benches, platforms or sculptures.

Dividers and calipers were known to both the Greeks and Romans, though the caliper was uncommon.

Several Cissus species, such as C. rhombifolia, the grape ivy, with metallic foliage, and the leathery C. antarctica, or kangaroo vine, are excellent plants for boxes or room dividers.