Sentence examples for pole unit from inspiring English sources

4. The traffic lights that we know and love today evolved from a device invented by Garrett Augustus Morgan, a T-shaped pole unit with signals for stop, go and "an all-directional stop position" to help pedestrians cross safely.

Water has the higher thermal inertia, it takes longer to warm up, meaning it stores much more heat per degree of temperature change than does air, so it can carry much more energy from the equator to the poles per unit volume.

Method 5 shows the longest transient period which indicates the presence of extremely close poles to unit circle in the z plane among the other methods.

A corresponding right-handed rectangular coordinate system is also used occasionally; the x-axis is directed toward the vernal equinox, the y-axis 90° to the east, and the z-axis toward the north ecliptic pole; the astronomical unit is the unit of measure.

The company expects to switch almost one-third of its customers to automated reading by the end of 2003, with data sent to pole-top units and then relayed via radio frequency to a computer center in Kansas City, Mo.

On p. 54 his definition of unit pole is that it is such as to repel with a force of I dyne a similar pole when at a distance of I centimetre apart in vacuo, whereas hitherto the accepted definition has been when in air.

Note that the true group delay approaches infinite magnitude as either a zero or pole approaches the unit circle.

Every pole on the unit circle of a positive real function must be simple with a real and positive residue.

In the case of a magnetic field, since no isolated unit pole has ever been discovered, the field lines are called lines of force only in the sense that a small magnet is forced to align itself in the direction of these field lines.

Once there is a pole outside the unit circle, the system is unstable.

The aborted "Paddington pole" had fewer units than a rival street-based plan.