Descort, a synonym for lai, a medieval Provençal lyric in which the stanzas are nonuniform.
From the evidence of Greek-inspired astronomical works that later turned up in India, it has been conjectured that Greek astronomers before Ptolemy may have experimented with nonuniform motion something akin to the equant but nothing remains of a finished project before Ptolemy.
In the 14th century Ibn al-Shāṭir of Damascus built on the works of the Marāgheh school in his Nihāyat al-suʾl fi taṣḥīḥ al-uṣūl ("Final Inquiry Concerning the Rectification of Planetary Theory"), which was also characterized by the elimination of nonuniform motions in favour of minor epicycles.
In this work Oresme conceived of the idea of using rectangular coordinates (latitudo and longitudo) and the resulting geometric figures to distinguish between uniform and nonuniform distributions of various quantities, even extending his definition to include three-dimensional figures.
These lays had nonuniform stanzas of about 6 to 16 or more lines of 4 to 8 syllables.
Bjerknes showed that very small forces resulting from pressure differences caused by nonuniform density of seawater can initiate and maintain fluid motion.
Because the barrel is curved in both space and time, the little squares in the grid of the curved sheet of graph paper marking the space-time surface are of nonuniform size, stretching to become bigger when the barrel broadens (universe expands) and shrinking to become smaller when the barrel narrows (universe contracts).
The alveoli of the lungs are elastic bodies of nonuniform size.
In the Newtonian form it asserts, in effect, that, within a windowless laboratory freely falling in a uniform gravitational field, experimenters would be unaware that the laboratory is in a state of nonuniform motion.
(Berkeley had argued that all motion, both uniform and nonuniform, was relative to the distant stars).
For example, if the magnetic dipole m is aligned with B, then the energy is −mB, and the force is in the direction of increasing B. If m is directed opposite to B, then the potential energy given by equation (7) is +mB, and in this case the force is in the direction of decreasing B. Both types of forces are observed when various samples of matter are placed in a nonuniform magnetic field.
