Sentence examples for movable element from inspiring English sources

Control is by means of a movable element that opens, shuts, or partially obstructs an opening in a passageway.

In a gate valve, the movable element is a wedge-shaped disk that seats against two tapered faces in the valve body.

The movable element may be kept on its seat by a weighted lever or a spring strong enough to hold the valve closed until the pressure is reached at which safe operation requires opening.

If the movable element in the globe valve in the Figure were kept on its seat by gravity or a spring, it would permit flow from left to right but not from right to left.

Two different ultrafiltration systems with diverse arrangement of liquid flow: the apparatus with helical flow generated by the movable element (inner cylinder) and the tubular module with cross flow filtration, were tested by the RTD technique.

It has been observed that after electrical breakdown in the air gap or the contact of the movable element and the dielectric layer the characteristic of the MEMS has changed.

In other scenes the movable elements just go through the motions dictated by the plot.

The innovative twentieth-century French architect Jean Prouvé attempted to bridge the trade-offs by introducing movable elements into his architecture.

They had two studios full of these movable elements, from the rock walls to the walkways and ladders.

In his own brightly packaged version of "The Night Before Christmas," Robert Sabuda illustrates the lightly edited text he credits to Moore in clean, crisp, contemporary graphics featuring a variety of pop-up and other movable elements.

Outdoor furnishings and equipment include all of those fixed and movable elements that tend to appear in garden or landscape after the plans are done and installed and therefore without benefit of design control.