Sentence examples for pitch length from inspiring English sources

The "height" of the staircase, equal to a full 360-degree twist, is called the "pitch length".

It is the relative values of the pitch, length, or degree of stress of an item that are significant.

This is because the increased temperature means the molecules in each layer twist more making the spiral tighter and the pitch length shorter.

At lower temperatures, the reverse happens – the helix is more loosely wound and the pitch length gets longer – hence light at the red end of the visible spectrum is reflected.

When light hits this staircase, most of it passes through and is absorbed by the black background of the strip; however, light with a wavelength equal to the pitch length is reflected, giving rise to the colour you see.

The mean helix radius and pitch length are reduced to 17 and 55 nm, respectively.

Table 1 presents the pitch length and radius of curvature of the three samples.

These parameters affecting the helical GHE's performance are their spacing, major diameter and pitch length.

An increasing swirl flow was seen as the pitch length increased.

This short pitch (length scale ∼10 Å) results in a lower chain-modulus.

The most probable conformation obtained from the reverse-mapping is a helix with a pitch length of 15 monomers.