Lean Short form for lean manufacturing minimising waste and maximising flow.
The phase inversion process uses a controlled liquid liquid demixing process to separate an otherwise stable polymer solution into a polymer-rich and a polymer-lean phase that forms the matrix and the pores of the polymer film (Schäfer et al. 2005; Schweizer and Kistler 2012; Strathmann and Kock 1977).
With his seamed features and lean, concave form, Nighy looks like a man who has suffered interestingly.
Agile working methods and lean philosophy form the core of Reaktor-practices.
I appreciate a tall, lean, sinewy form, on the feminine side facially, but still strong and masculine.
Pack the soil around the stakes to lean the form in or out if needed to align it with the string line, and if it is necessary, place a gauge block to hold the string clear of the form and gauge the form at frequent intervals to assure the form is straight.
Her supporting leg, bended at the knee, leans forward, forming another arc that likewise leads to the upturned head.
But these lean figures forming perfect rings in the water were, in fact, print designs — like the patterns of waves breaking over brief dresses.
It is an exceptionally graceful design, supported by a single tower made up of two poles, which lean outward, forming a V... Describes how her husband, while dying of cancer nearby at Sloan-Kettering Hospital, "would come over in his bathrobe and sit in the gardens — he said he needed me to take care of him but that I had to do one other thing, and that was to build this bridge".
Nothing in Agatha Christie's brilliantly compact, stylized, and efficient mysteries suggests that larger ambitions would have served her; the genre in its lean classic English form fit her like a cat burglar's thin black glove.
