Sentence examples for shape of a funnel from inspiring English sources

During gestation, it's a snug, rounded, hermetically sealed pouch; during labor it takes on the shape of a funnel.

Elliptical in outline (approximately 60 kilometres long by 28 kilometres wide), the complex has the shape of a funnel pointing down into the Earth.

It is expected that this plot has the shape of a funnel, because studies with smaller sample sizes and larger standard errors have increasingly large variation in estimates of their effect size as random variation becomes increasingly influential, whereas studies with larger sample sizes have smaller variation in effect sizes [ 50, 51].

The flowers are usually showy and take the shape of a funnel, more or less.

The flattened-convex cap can vary in shape, sometimes forming the shape of a wide funnel.

The cap is initially convex, but as it matures the center forms a depression and the outer edges rise until it assumes the shape of a shallow funnel; its final width is typically between 2 and.

The shape of all funnel plots was symmetrical (P > 0.05).

The scatter plot of survival outcome against its standard error is supposed to have a symmetric shape of an inverse funnel, representing a wide variability of estimates from small studies and narrow range of those from large studies.

Small studies with effect sizes of wider standard deviations should widely and symmetrically distribute at the bottom of the plot, and large studies should cluster at top of the plot, making it the shape of an inverted funnel plot.

Over a tornado's lifetime, the size and shape of the funnel cloud may change markedly, reflecting changes in the intensity of the winds, the moisture content of the inflowing air, properties of the ground, and other factors.

The present molecular evidence confirmed the taxonomic significance of the shape of the anal funnel, an ear-shaped membranous structure situated at the posterior extremity of the rectum that presumably facilitates expulsion of fecal pellets.