Sentence examples for main and lateral from inspiring English sources

Though since then there has been widespread abandonment of farms, especially in the high valleys of France and Italy and in western Austria, agriculture still survives in favoured locations both in the main and lateral valleys.

Based on previous observations of the 45° junction manhole for supercritical flow in the main and lateral branches, the hydraulics of the more common 90° junction manhole were explored.

Roots (both main and lateral roots) of these plants were either placed in sterile water or into 150 mM NaCl solution for 2 h.

The main and lateral shoot lengths and the corresponding leaf areas were measured in 15 shoot samples from each treatment group before defoliation and at harvest.

Waterlogging increased (both main and lateral) porosity over the control due to the formation of aerenchyma (visual observation under microscope data not shown).

Porosity (% gas space per volume) of main and lateral roots was determined at in the final harvest following the principle described by Raskin (1983) and as modified by Thomson et al. (1990).

Main and laterals are buried PVC pipes: one lateral covers three positions.

The surgeon then held the heel of the patient with both hands and applied compression both medially and laterally with his thenar muscle to reduce the main medial and lateral fragments.

In order of decreasing size, the components of a surface system are the main collection ditch, field ditch, and field drain; and for a subsurface system, main, submain, and lateral conduits from the submain.

The morphogenesis of five pea plants per plot was characterized for each vegetative axis, i.e. main stems and lateral branches.

The outlet is the point of disposal of water from the system; the main carries water to the outlet; the submain or field ditch collects water from a number of smaller units and carries it to the main; and the lateral or field drain, the smallest unit of the system, removes the water from the soil.