Sentence examples for imaginary sphere from inspiring English sources

Since the latter is proportional to the square of the radius, r, the former appeared to Lambert to be the area of an imaginary sphere with radius ir, where i = √(−1).

The social representation of artisanal products, in the symbolic universe, has been appropriated by marketing strategy and used by large enterprise innovation areas, being successful in answering, in the imaginary sphere, the desire of consumers.

The Euler sphere is an imaginary sphere whose origin is at the center of mass of the object.

The Lorentz reciprocal theorem is used to link the surface tractions on the body to integrals involving the background velocity and stress fields on an imaginary bounding sphere (or hemisphere for wall-bounded flows).

But this imaginary field is just that, imaginary.

His five canvases and wrap-around wall piece seem to suspend the viewer among the pages of a giant storybook, each of which depicts the Big Bang beginning of a different imaginary universe, with a sphere or archipelago of alternately gaseous and solid forms.

Lacan tends to associate (albeit not exclusively) the Imaginary with the restricted spheres of consciousness and self-awareness.

He maintained that the celestial spheres were "imaginary things" and "more tenuous than a spider's web".

Later in the century, the Islamic theologian Adud al-Din al-Iji (1281 1355), under the influence of the Ash'ari doctrine of occasionalism, which maintained that all physical effects were caused directly by God's will rather than by natural causes, rejected philosophy and astronomy, and maintained that the celestial spheres were "imaginary things" and "more tenuous than a spider's web".

As one of the characters in More's Divine Dialogues (1668) is made to say, referring to the scholastic tradition of calling the supposed infinite space beyond the sphere of the fixed stars, "imaginary space": space is "so imaginary that it cannot be dis-imagined by human understanding" (More 1668, 54).

Although the spheres containing the cells are imaginary, the back hemispheres are made to appear opaque in Fig. 6 so that the three-dimensional aspects of the diagrams are apparent.