Sentence examples for indentation from inspiring English sources

Here, instead of measuring the width of the indentation after the indenter has been removed, a sensitive gauge indicates the depth to which the indenter sinks into the surface under a given load.

The German applied mechanician Ludwig Prandtl developed the rudiments of the theory of plane plastic flow in 1920 and 1921, with an analysis of indentation of a ductile solid by a flat-ended rigid indenter, and the resulting theory of plastic slip lines was completed by H. Hencky in 1923 and Hilda Geiringer in 1930.

Place a whole umeboshi in a small indentation in the centre of the rice, and cover with another handful of rice.

IBM has already reached 45 gigabytes per square inch using a heated stylus to make an indentation a few billionths of a metre deep on the surface of a rotating disk.

Recently developed products are specially hardened to resist indentation.

Locations for artificial harbours are of course chosen with an eye to the existing potential of the coast; an indentation, however slight, is favoured.

The basin gradually became infilled by sediment, leaving The Wash as the remnant of a more extensive indentation.

In most of the enzymes studied thus far, a cleft, or indentation, into which the substrate fits (see 7A), is found at the active site.

The city lies at the mouth of the Pajeú River on a crescent-shaped indentation of the coastline.

In other words, needle-dropping, or "nano-indentation" as he prefers to call it, could be used diagnostically.At the moment, osteoporosis is diagnosed using X-rays, which measure the density of bone.

It will, though, take something for this pitch to change character sufficiently for there has been no pace in it, little evidence of erratic bounce that might have eventuated from any indentations from the first day, no swing and hardly any turn to speak of.