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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.

One of the active electronic devices for sensing elements is movable gate field effect transistors (FET), whose gate is released from the substrate and free to move [9, 10, 11, 12].

In the globe valve shown in the Figure (far left), the movable element M may be a tapered plug or a disk that fits a seat on the valve body; the disk may carry a replaceable rubber or leather washer, as in a household water faucet.

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

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.

The different functional chelae of a multi-chela can be described independently: that in Leanchoilia superlata, for example, is composed of a proximal chela with a movable finger including a single element (the movable finger is the spine arising from the next distal element) and a distal chela where the movable finger includes two elements.

All these skeletal units are movable elements involved in prey catching [ 38].

Considering receive beamforming in reverse-link transmissions, signals from these antenna elements are combined to form a movable beam pattern that can be steered to a desired direction to track the MS as it moves [17, 18].

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.

Each of its hinged, movable legs is six feet long.