Sentence examples for motion as in from inspiring English sources

Slider-crank mechanism, arrangement of mechanical parts designed to convert straight-line motion to rotary motion, as in a reciprocating piston engine, or to convert rotary motion to straight-line motion, as in a reciprocating piston pump.

The nine cars could be a time lapse image of a single car, captured in motion as in a multiple exposure photo.

If the sporting activity you undertake demands a great range of motion (as in gymnastics, martial arts, or ballet), then stretching should be part of the normal training routine.

Instead of using mechanical motion as in Microsoft's project, Disney's TeslaTouch generates minor electric fields in the screen that create friction by attracting the individual's finger or hand by varying degrees.

Cimino catches emotion in motion, as in the whirling euphoria of a roller-skate dance and the deadly vortex of an encircling cavalry charge, yet these turbulent delights are pierced by arresting points of stillness and eloquent silences, which pack as much dramatic impact in a knowing exchange of glances across a throbbing crowd as in fierce intimate confrontations.

I happen to revere him most in motion, as in the hotfooted thrill of "The Last of the Mohicans" (1992), but he is equally a champion of stillness, and he seems, like certain rare sportsmen, to be preternaturally blessed with time — enough time, that is, to take stock of a situation, while people bustle around him, and to ponder his next move.

But the band's big break came when they performed the song on "Saturday Night Live," wearing the suits and pitch-black sunglasses, and doing the same jerky robo-motions, as in the video.

The observed Fourier spectral ratio was evaluated using the same eight weak motions as in step 2 of the procedure (above).

So we use the same representations for human postures and human motions as in [31]: a limb orientation is represented using three parameters, without modeling self rotation of the limb around its axes, as shown in Figure 3b.

In works that have implemented the target trajectory, robots have been trained to learn from human motions as in [17, 18], and to follow the way a human walks [19].

"We don't want to be the fastest or the best climber, but we want to have a machine that can do many of these motions; as in the real world, the machine will need to have many different skills".