Sentence examples for gradients from inspiring English sources

Most of these bikes originate from India, and while their lone gear isn't exactly ideal for Kathmandu's gradients, they come cheap and are built like workhorses.

The other climbs in Sheffield on the route are named after the villages they skirt: Côte de Midhopestones, which has gradients of between 9% and 15%; Côte de Bradfield, which includes a 20% stretch; and Côte d'Oughtibridge, known locally as 'Jawbone Hill' because (according to VeloViewer) the actual jawbones of a whale once spanned the road to commemorate the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

The tracks are long enough and the gradients just about steep enough to require some effort but still be within the capabilities of reasonably healthy adults and, if they have any sense, their dogs.

Bridges, it turns out, are superior to tunnels, since vehicles consume less petrol driving across them than they do descending the steep gradients into tunnels and climbing back out on the other side.

Dr Ernst suggested positioning gradients to form a rectangular grid, to simplify the process of creating two-dimensional images.

Their process is fuelled by concentration gradients of salinity between different vessels of brine.

A few years later, even Dr Damadian himself abandoned its underlying technology.Meanwhile, Sir Peter Mansfield, who had also suggested gradients as a way to spatially localise NMR signals in a paper published in 1973, further contributed to the development of MRI by devising a scheme to acquire MR signals and construct images rapidly.

Voltage gradients are applied across the top and bottom layers, at right angles to each other.

Seduced by a flute Reprints Related items Social mobility: It's still not fairJan 15th 2009 The poor: Always with usJun 12th 2008And the evidence is that the differences in status cause these "gradients".

Those gradients were the forerunners of the voltage differences that enable modern cells to manufacture the thousands of chemicals they need to function and which therefore provide the vital spark for every living thing on the planet.Although the other questions are perhaps more obscure, they are just as profound.

But there is something about the thin air and steep gradients high in the French mountains that deprive his pedal stroke of power and leave him struggling.