Sentence examples for pair of rods from inspiring English sources

The rider's feet swung treadles back and forth, moving a pair of rods connected to cranks on the rear wheels.

Each connecting rod in an in-line engine or each pair of rods in a V-type engine is attached to a throw of the crankshaft.

Dr. Curran assured them that not only houseflies but all members of the fly family, including mosquitoes, have a pair of rods, just behind their wings, that seem to act as stabilizers.

Another new contraceptive that could have far-reaching impact is the Sino-implant (II), a tiny pair of rods inserted just under the skin (typically in the arm) to release hormones.

The complicated geometry meant that a pair of rods had different effective lengths, giving a longer stroke on the articulated side; consequently the cylinder liners on that side had to be lengthened to prevent the lower piston ring from running out of the cylinder skirt.

Pond-type larvae may have a pair of rod-like balancers on either side of the head, long gill filaments and broad fins.

Complete, articulated skeletons of other ornithomimids show no trace of sternal ossifications [56], [57], except for a pair of rod-shaped "xiphisternal" elements in Struthiomimus [65].

At the heart of these complexes is a pair of rod-shaped Smc proteins possessing ABC-like ATPase and dimerization domains at opposite ends of 50 nm long anti-parallel intra-molecular coiled coils.

The decelerator in our experiment consists of 124 stages composed of pairs of rods of 3 mm diameter separated by 5 mm (center-to-center distance).

Positive and negative potentials are applied to opposing pairs of rods, resulting in an electrostatic field that will turn particles that have kinetic energy, in eV per charge, equivalent to the potential applied to the rods.

The linkage map is consistent with the mitotic karyotype of D. elegans and D. gunungcola, which consists of four pairs of rods, one pair of dot-like chromosomes, and a pair of sex chromosomes (Deng et al. 2007).