Sentence examples for rectilinear movement from inspiring English sources

This rectilinear movement depends on the ability of snakes to stretch or contract their bodies along its longitudinal axis.

Moreover, whether its rectilinear movement is natural or constrained, in either case the force which causes its motion will have to be infinite.

Since it depends on an alternating, rectilinear movement and is therefore handicapped by factors of inertia, its speed, which cannot be as great as that of a continuous rotary movement, is only 10 to-and-fro movements per second.

These may be the figures best adapted to movement; they are not, however, well adapted to the movement of fire, which is an upward and rectilinear movement, but rather to that form of circular movement which we call rolling.

Light elements, such as fire and air, always tend to go upward, while heavy elements, such as water and earth, move downward following a rectilinear movement.

Based on this modified system, a novel and simple nanomachining method combining the scanning movement of AFM piezoceramics tube (PZT) with the rectilinear movement of the high-precision stage is realized.

Significantly, Philoponus compares the rotation implanted in the celestial bodies to the rectilinear movements of the elements as well as to the movements of animals: curiously, these are all understood as natural motions that are due to the creator's divine impetus.

Secondly, it may be thought that the same reasoning which holds good of the rectilinear path applies also the circular, movement from A to B being opposed as contrary to movement from B to A. But what is meant is still rectilinear motion.

The rectilinear motion of a two-body system is considered.

Linear motion, also called uniform motion or rectilinear motion, motion in one spatial dimension.

Fig. 8 Uniform rectilinear motion.