Sentence examples for elongations from inspiring English sources
Schiele's work was already expressionistic and daring, taking Klimt's safely decorative eroticism a bold leap further with his figurative distortions, mannered elongations and sexual frankness.
The same sort of question might be asked about the government's elongations of the school exam system.This year, the first crop of students will sit new A-level extension papers—soon to be superseded by a new A-level grade, of the kind that already confuses GCSE results.
Elongations of 100 to 1,000 percent are possible with these plastics.
Tensile and yield strength are determined by pulling a standardized machined sample in a special hydraulic press and recording the pulling force at increasing elongations until the sample breaks.
The most important area of fusion between these two meninges is in the walls of the large venous channels of the dura mater where elongations of the arachnoid, like fingers, penetrate the dura mater and project into the veins.
Transcribed as text, the words suggest a man gnawing at the last frayed ends of his tether, yet the febrile repetitions, elongations, and elisions of the singer's phrasing make of these words not a lament but a rhapsody, even an ecstasy: Please.
Rhodes Cook argues that the elongation of this year's primary timetable makes it theoretically possible for a new presidential candidate to enter late - in early February, say - and still collect enough delegates to win.
It is determined to claim the title of tallest building in the world so determined, in fact, that its final height is a secret and subject to elongation to keep ahead of would-be usurpers.But some towers (architects refer to them as tubes) use a web of steel struts to transfer the building's weight down to its foundations via a few large piers.
These opposing tendencies set up a barrier in the potential energy of the system, as indicated in Figure 2. The curve in Figure 2 rises initially with elongation, since the strong, short-range nuclear force that gives rise to the surface tension increases.
The Coulomb repulsion between protons decreases faster with elongation than the surface tension increases, and the two are in balance at point B, which represents the height of the barrier to fission.
A fissionable system (uranium-238, for example) in its ground state (i.e., at its lowest excitation energy and with an elongation small enough that it is confined inside the fission barrier) has a small but finite probability of being in the energetically favoured configuration of two fission fragments.
