Sentence examples for higher centre from inspiring English sources

Design of devices such as guardrails must take into account the larger mass and higher centre of gravity of trucks as well.

Adults are taller, so they have a higher centre of gravity – that's a term ski instructors use to sound intelligent, but it just means that the taller you are, the harder it is to stay balanced.

The Prius engineering chief told me the reason is that the roof is heavy and someone wanting the "fun-to-drive" of the big wheels wouldn't want that fun compromised by the higher centre of gravity.

During the first consonant in sea these have a tendency to be at a higher centre frequency, and hence a higher pitch, than in the pronunciation of the first consonant in she.

These derailments were attributed to the slightly higher centre of gravity of the boiler on the K1.

Because body proportions in childhood are different to those in adulthood, children have a relatively higher centre of mass location.

This centre connects with higher centres in the brain by ascending and descending fibres in the spinal cord.

The feeling of pain depends upon the transmission of information from a traumatized region to higher centres in the brain.

A central nervous system depressant, meprobamate acts selectively upon the spinal cord and the higher centres in the brain.

Once begun, micturition is carried through to completion by lower and higher centres acting in concert; sensory messages from the urine-distended urethra also play a part.

They also may determine which ascending impulses are to be blocked and which are allowed to pass on to the higher centres of the brain.