Sentence examples for plane surfaces from inspiring English sources

Reflecting prisms are pieces of glass bounded by plane surfaces set at carefully specified angles.

The relief image is essentially one of plane surfaces and could not possibly exist in three dimensions.

Her third memoir, with which she finally won the prize, treated vibrations of general curved as well as plane surfaces and was published privately in 1821.

They, like Suprematists, worked mainly in an abstract style and with unadorned shapes such as straight lines, intersecting plane surfaces, and basic geometrical figures and the primary colors and neutrals.

In his search for an art of clarity and order that would also express his religious and philosophical beliefs, Mondrian eliminated all representational components, reducing painting to its elements: straight lines, plane surfaces, rectangles, and the primary colours (red, yellow, and blue) combined with neutrals (black, gray, and white).

There are several kinds of fractures: conchoidal (curved concavities resembling shells e.g., flint, quartz, glass); even (rough, approximately plane surfaces); uneven (rough and completely irregular surfaces, the commonest fracture type); hackly (sharp edges and jagged points and depressions e.g., most metals); and splintery (partially separated splinters or fibres e.g., jadeite [see photograph]).

Consider, for example, the problem of a sphere or cylinder rolling without slipping on a plane surface.

The outcry grew after pictures of two girls apparently enjoying a previous holiday trip to Mombasa on the same plane surfaced on Instagram.

a The electopolishing procedure creates a plane surface.

Recent research has uncovered a fascinating quantum liquid made up solely of electrons confined to a plane surface.

Therefore, the reflectivity change caused by inserting a plane surface of Au should be large.