Sentence examples for proportion shape from inspiring English sources

What materials should be chosen, and how should their proportion, shape, and loading be controlled, to make safe, reliable, durable, and economical structures whether airframes, bridges, ships, buildings, chairs, artificial heart valves, or computer chips and to make machinery such as jet engines, pumps, and bicycles?

The wear resistance of tool steel coatings is dependent upon the matrix microstructure and the features of dispersed carbides, such as their type, proportion, shape, size and distribution.

Letterman, whose snow-white achievement beard has grown to Biblical proportions, shapes the episode as a love letter to the former President and his family, each member of whom he speaks of with admiration and delight.

In 1470 he opened a printing shop in Venice, and, in the first work he produced, the printed roman lowercase letter took on the proportions, shapes, and arrangements that marked its transition from an imitation of handwriting to the style that has remained in use throughout subsequent centuries of printing.

During this phase, various critical thresholds have been surpassed as a result of which many of the hallmarks of modern development for the first time reached genuinely global proportions, shaping the lives of people around the world and turning what until then had been a minority phenomenon into a lived reality for the majority of the human population [77].

Today, "It's about balance, shapes and proportions," said Mr. Kirkwood.

It's a nice proportion; the shape has lightened and matured from concept to production".

Yet this was a well-thought-out range of sportswear — the square-cut, deep-sleeve tops offering a new proportion, the shape underlined by horizontal stripes.

"Just like moldings tell a story about the architecture of a house in their proportion and shape, a doorknob can tell you about the character of a room," said Mr. Schafer, 51, whose book, "The Great American House," was published last month.

With any bold color choice, keep proportion and shape in mind.

For our example analyses, only a fairly small proportion of shape variation is symmetric.