Sentence examples for imperfect device from inspiring English sources

Just as the prime mover is an imperfect device for converting the heat of fuel combustion to gas horsepower, so the propulsor is an imperfect device for converting the gas horsepower to propulsive thrust.

This chapter illustrates that the transistor, too, is an imperfect device whose characteristics also vary with frequency.

Early reviews of the Surface offered up views of an ambitious, imperfect device, but starting tonight, the real judges will finally have a chance to weigh in.

Both the metaphor and the analogy provide useful but imperfect devices for conceiving of things that cannot be sensed or imagined, strictly speaking.

Scientists and engineers know the difficulty of extracting accurate information from a collection of imperfect devices, such as a clutch of clocks.

Impulse noise is introduced in the image with imperfect devices, due to problems coming out during data acquisition or transmission, natural phenomenon, electrical sparks, and many other causes.

Unlike the signal enhancement mechanism reported before which produces similar effects, this mechanism only requires one dot coupling to the lead, which is a commonly encountered case especially in imperfect devices.

We thus must not make imperfect devices that can destroy so much precious life.

Even an imperfect cloaking device that didn't completely squelch surface waves could still be useful, he says.

His brain is the notebook is the computer: imperfect memory devices sustaining a broken system.

Perception error exists due to imperfect exteroceptive devices causing issues such as limited viewing angles or occlusion of visual sensors.