Sentence examples for nonuniformity from inspiring English sources

This represents a useful elaboration of the messages from the retina because, to the animal, uniformity is uninteresting; it is the nonuniformity created by a contour or a moving object that is of interest, and the brain is therefore spared from being bombarded by unnecessary information that would result if every receptor response were transmitted to the brain.

However, the nonuniformity is expressed in the language of uniformity: the epicycle's centre moves in such a way that it appears to go through equal angles in equal times as viewed from another point distinct from Earth, the equant point.

They outline the disturbance of the wave by any nonuniformity existing at T. Counting the number of fringes displaced gives a measure of how great the nonuniformity is.

The other five known rings of Neptune Galle, Le Verrier, Lassell, Arago, and Galatea, in order of increasing distance from the planet lack the nonuniformity in density exhibited by Adams.

Any nonuniformity, such as caused by a wave front in the air at T, causes a scattered light beam to evade the screen, K2 (path a), and reach the film.

The length of a degree of arc of latitude is approximately 111 km (69 miles), varying, because of the nonuniformity of Earth's curvature, from 110.567 km (68.706 miles) at the Equator to 111.699 km (69.41 miles) at the poles.

In 1957 the Italian physicist Vasco Ronchi went the other way and defined an image as any recognizable nonuniformity in the light distribution over a surface such as a screen or film; the sharper the image, the greater the degree of nonuniformity.

In response, Justice Stevens offered this retort: "Nonuniformity is a necessary consequence of a federalist system of government".

The advantage of the latter approach is that nonuniformities in the source are averaged in the imaging process.

Mansfield transformed Lauterbur's discoveries into a practical technology in medicine by developing a way of using the nonuniformities, or gradients, introduced in the magnetic field to identify differences in the resonance signals more precisely.

Even within our own bubble, tiny random nonuniformities in the primordial raw material would cause the cosmos to look different from place to place.