Sentence examples for extend in the direction of from inspiring English sources

Its ambitions extend in the direction of not-missing-a-trick, it has a bursting omnipotence up its sleeve".

The structures of both minerals are similar in that the tetrahedral pointing in the same direction form 2 1 ribbons that extend in the direction of the a-axis and have an average b-axis width of three linked tetrahedral chains in sepiolite and two linked chains in palygorskite (Singer 1989).

The dynamic filopodia that extend in the direction of higher Cxcl12a concentration increase the surface for chemokine binding (4), thereby enhancing signalling.

In an initial attempt to withstand increasing shear forces, biofilms extend in the direction of flow through re-arrangement into so-called 'streamers', as shown in Fig. 4A (Rusconi et al., 2010, 2011).

These filopodia extend in the direction of higher chemokine concentration and expand the surface for Cxcl12a binding, thereby further enhancing Cxcr4b signalling at the cell front and effectively enhancing the absolute differences in ligand levels detected along the front-back axis of the cell.

The cells' shapes were aligned and extended in the direction of the grooves [3, 7].

Cell shape is aligned and extended in the direction of the groove[13].

For a small time step, each crack is extended in the direction of maximal hoop stress, and by a length set by the kinetic law.

Longitudinal chase anchorage behaves in a similar manner to U-Anchors to increase the interfacial shear stress transfer in Type II applications, except that the chase typically extends in the direction of the force in the FRP.

The soil is a semi-infinite medium that extends in the direction of the Z-coordinate and is treated as a thick slab of thickness l in the numerical thermal analysis.

Structures of several galectins in complex with natural saccharide ligands are known, and all share a conserved core-binding site for lactose/N-acetyllactosamine and a groove of variable structure (among galectins) extending in the direction of HO3 of the galactose residue.