Sentence examples for pointing upstream from inspiring English sources

The development of the mitre lock, a double-leaf gate the closure of which formed an angle pointing upstream, heralded a period of extensive canal construction during the 16th and 17th centuries.

The cube is aligned with one corner pointing upstream so that a pair of conical roof vortices are created.

There is a 3 × 10−4 V/m component pointing upstream (away from Titan) mainly in the anti-Saturn half of the simulation.

The first 30 nucleotides of BA908 bind downstream of the srgE gene (nt 15275-15304 of Genbank accession number AE008767), pointing upstream.

When closed, the gates meet at an obtuse angle that points upstream in order to resist the water pressure.

Swollen from snow melt and rain, the river ran high and cold the first half of April, barreling along and swirling with foam and assorted flotsam from points upstream.

By 1700 the Virginia frontier had been pushed as far west as the fall line the point upstream at which the rivers emptying into the Atlantic became unnavigable.

The Times found that samples taken by the state in the Monongahela River — a source of drinking water for parts of Pittsburgh — came from a point upstream from the two sewage treatment plants on that river.

When opened, the leaves are housed in lock wall recesses; when closed, after turning through about 60°, they meet on the lock axis in a V shape with its point upstream.

The electric field at the sub-flow point upstream of Titan contains a twist.

Each run shows a discontinuity in the field strength in the sub-flow point upstream of Titan.