Sentence examples for imaginary circle from inspiring English sources

When I draw an imaginary circle of a couple of miles around our neighborhood, it encompasses the sites of five bus bombings.

Derek Jeter grabbed a pen from his locker Friday afternoon and drew an imaginary circle around the weather map on his computer screen.

The diameter of an imaginary circle, the area of which is identical to this maximum horizontal area, was defined as the diameter of the colony.

A single low-ranking female was trained to open a container holding a large amount of food — but only when dominant monkeys in the group stayed outside an imaginary circle.

The spring, or vernal, equinox marks the point in space and time when the sun moves across the celestial equator, an imaginary circle projected into the sky above the real equator.

The diameter (A) of a colony was defined as the diameter of an imaginary circle, the area of which is identical to that of the maximum cross section of the colony.

He looks behind him occasionally, Jaylen napping or drawing imaginary circles on the glass.

Recall the epicycles, the imaginary circles that Ptolemy used and formalized around A.D. 150 to describe the motions of planets.

Pitch circles have been defined as the imaginary circles that are in contact when two standard gears are in correct mesh.

For cartographers, it is clear that the answers would have to follow a great circle: an arc along one of the many largest imaginary circles that can be drawn around a sphere.

Cue locations were arranged on imaginary circles around a central fixation cross (size: 0.5° of visual angle) at a radius of 8° (4 positions) and 12° (8 positions).