Sentence examples for intermittent movement from inspiring English sources

The device used a triangular "eccentric" (intermittent) movement connected to a claw to engage the sprocket holes.

The heart of Edison's patent claim was the intermittent movement provided by a Maltese cross synchronized with a shutter.

But the leap of imagination he took makes him among the most important figures in an intermittent movement that's been described as "Afro-Futurism".

In 1882 Étienne-Jules Marey employed a similar "clockwork train" intermittent movement in a photographic "gun" used to "shoot" birds in flight.

The first American projectors employing intermittent movement were devised by Thomas Armat in 1895 with a Pitman arm or "beater" movement taken from a French camera of 1893.

The principal technology that creates this intermittent movement is the Geneva watch movement, in which a four-slotted star wheel, or "Maltese cross," converts the tension of the mainspring to the ticking of toothed gears.

One young man holds up a can of Amstel: 'For this I am shot at?' The rhythm of the film is the rhythm of their lives: brief snatches of conversation, intermittent movements, spells of silent darkness.

A small quantity of polishing paste was used for 30 s, without irrigation, in a single direction, using intermittent movements at a low speed (S3).

These intermittent movements and resultant variations in velocity increase the work done by the swimmer [ 5], compared to swimming at a constant velocity.

The direct observation of movies acquired in untreated conditions revealed that in general melanosomes display variable and intermittent motility, with slow movements and pauses interrupted by bursts of faster movements, as described previously (9, 31).

The Chinese authorities here face an intermittent separatist movement of nationalist Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people who number nine million in Xinjiang.