Sentence examples for rate of ascent from inspiring English sources

"But in the second year, the rate of ascent does slow down".

"No comparable structure," we read, "has since matched that rate of ascent".

The long-run rate of growth of the economy would be determined by the rate of ascent of the ceiling, which in turn would depend upon supply factors such as the rate of growth of the labour force and the rate of growth of technical progress or productivity.

A virtual needle always points north (with adjustable declination depending on your location) and a tiny graph plots your rate of ascent, sounding an alarm when you reach your target altitude (or you could just stop when you reach the top).

The two biggest makers of airliners, Boeing and Airbus Industrie, benefited in 2000 from restructuring their operations, but Bombardier's rate of ascent is steeper, thanks to better execution and stronger management cohesion than its bigger counterparts.

The most useful semiquantitative parameters obtained from the analysis of time-intensity curves are the maximum enhancement, rate of ascent of the curve, time for the maximum value, and area under the curve (Fig 11).

Rates of ascent and descent were examined for all tagged sharks.

The rates of ascent are less than of descent and are the reverse of what was proposed by Weiss [48].

In order to further differentiate vertical behavioral patterns, rates of ascent and descent of dives were analyzed.

Tags 18M, 30M and 40M had mean rates of descent that were significantly faster than the mean rates of ascent while offshore (18M descent 0.9±0.2 m sec−1, ascent 0.6±0.1 m sec−1; 30M descent 0.9±0.2 m sec−1, ascent 0.6±0.1 m sec−1; 40M descent 1.0±0.2 m sec−1, ascent 0.6±0.1 m sec−1, for all three sharks, Mann-Whitney rank sum test p = 0.001).

Shark 41F, which exhibited very different behavior in the offshore region, had mean rates of ascent and descent that were not statistically different, and both tended to be slower than those observed for the males (descent 0.3±0.2 m sec−1, ascent 0.3±0.1 m sec−1, Mann-Whitney rank sum test p = 0.8).