Sentence examples for major axis in from inspiring English sources

It defines the direction of the major axis in the plane of the orbit.

Prevention constitutes a major axis in the protection of radiopharmaceutical-manipulating personnel.

The fast polarization direction is taken to be the direction of the major axis in the case of ellipsoidal cracks (e.g., Hudson 1981).

Independently of the process being studied, when a material flows, the elongated particles are oriented with the major axis in the direction of flow.

The outer and inner diameter of the minor axis in an oval cross-section (a1 and a2) and the outer and inner diameter of the major axis in an oval cross-section (b1 and b2) were also measured.

Two types of variable thickness have been considered: in the first case it varies linearly or quadratically parallel to the major axis; in the second case it is taken to be the same along concentric ellipses but varies linearly or quadratically as we move from one ellipse to another.

To quantitate the degree of planarity of the normal, we applied a formula for assessing the 'flattening' ratio, F = (a −  b)/ a (a is the length of the semi-major axis in the projections; b is its semi-minor axis).

The direction of wave travel tends to align along a major axis (anterior posterior in primary motor cortex; medio-lateral in dorsal pre-motor cortex), and the waves encode information about the cues guiding behaviour in both their amplitude and phase.

We also analyzed the morphology of the remaining CF input by measuring the major axis, minor axis (in micrometers), and ratio (major/minor axis length) of randomly selected varicosities in the δ2/GFP-ho, the GFP-ho, and GFP-wt groups.

The basin has a diamond-shaped appearance, with its major axis expanding in the NNE direction.

The major axis (PC1) in PCA of salamander external gill morphology accounted for 85.1% (field observations at Higashimata; n = 22), 67.8% (field observations at Nishimata; n = 50) and 75.8% (in the gill induction experiment; n = 88) of the total variance of all gill morphological variables.