Sentence examples for pointer of a from inspiring English sources

Our astronomer, using the pointer of a sundial, known as a gnomon, as his eye, would generate a second, shadow cone spreading downward.

Elisabeth Afseth, bond market expert at Evolution Securities, reckons that the first pointer of a fresh credit crunch was returning could be seen on August 18 this year when the European Central Bank revealed that one bank had borrowed $500m for a week – as it could not find the money on the open market.

This requires an lseek which is used to change the location of the read/write pointer of a file descriptor.

Each event time slot list entry includes a time value and the head pointer of a singly linked list of events.

This was done at first by crudely detecting the closest 'blobs' present in the depth, i.e. the hands, and using the motions of these to control the mouse pointer of a computer.

Then the challenge is, of course, how we can explain why the pointer of a measuring instrument enters a definite (and not a superposition) position, as experience tells us, whenever the apparatus interacts with the object.

If the test leads are not in contact with anything, the needle or pointer of an analog meter will rest at the left-most position.

A panel of predominantly national beat writers voted for Rivers apparently because of his ability to guide a group of decent role players -- unanimously picked in the preseason to finish in the Atlantic Division basement -- within a missed 3-pointer of a playoff berth.

Changes in the frequency to be measured cause a change in this balance that can be measured by the deflection of a pointer on a scale.

The special pointer of McMaster [17], a gravity goniometer or the special jig of Leung [14], was not available during this study.

Sometimes the most important thing a critic can do is point — and Sarris, in his heyday, was a pointer of genius, while Kael was an often unreliable one.