Sentence examples for elastic means from inspiring English sources

Generals lament a military stretched beyond its most elastic means.

Behaviour of the joints of the lower limb was approximated by elastic means and an actuator for each joint was designed and constructed.

The number of electrons intercepted by each molecular particle during transit is N i ≈ (JT/e)(10 nm)2 = 0.5, and (for elastic mean free path λ e ≈ 300 nm) the number diffracted is N d ≈ N i(10 nm/λ e) = 0.017, obviously too low.

All collisions between ideal gas particles are elastic, which means they do not lose any energy when they rebound off each other.

The demand for products that have readily available substitutes is likely to be elastic, which means that it will be more responsive to changes in the price of the product.

Application of mechanomagnetic spectroscopy technique allows one to study the stress-induced motion of elastic (by means of the anelasticity measurements) and magnetic domain boundaries (through the detection of the stress-induced magnetization).

Whereas this can lead to reliable assessments for coating-only properties for short range properties like plasticity the longer range of elastic interactions means that measured data always contains a contribution from the substrate.

When dehydration is present, the skin is less elastic, which means it will not fall back as quickly.

Blood pressure tends to rise with age because the blood vessels become less elastic, which means they are harder to stretch.

With a few drinks in him, he could be enticed into skewering their colleagues at Fidelity Pharm; he possessed such an elastic and mean imagination that he caricatured brilliantly, chillingly.

We previously showed that ΔX5 values in 86 patients with COPD were significantly higher than those in 45 patients with pulmonary fibrosis, possibly because the latter has increased lung elastic recoil (mean, 1.23 vs -0.18 cmH2O/L/s, respectively: p <0.05) [ 8].