Sentence examples for single piece of glass from inspiring English sources

The Europeans have devised a way to apply similar control technologies, called active optics, to the largest telescope mirrors to be made from a single piece of glass.

With their entire front consisting of a single piece of glass, the iPod Touches are fragile widgets that don't bounce when dropped.

Ms. Wilson and five other women, including Phyllis Samitz Cohen of the society, undertook an examination of every single piece of glass, or tessera, in the mosaic.

The prices of larger-size L.C.D. sets will continue to fall as manufacturers improve their ability to carve out more L.C.D. panels from a single piece of glass.

At certain points the unusual curvature of a window, created by the building's odd geometry, makes it impossible to span the opening with a single piece of glass, and the additional mullion creates an odd, patchwork pattern.

They are made either by forming two or three separate surfaces on a single piece of glass or obtaining additional power by fusing a piece of high-index glass on to the front of the main lens and then polishing a single spherical surface over both glasses.

It also uses the largest, heaviest single pieces of glass ever installed on a building that also happens to be curved.

At the heart of each observatory is an 8m-wide mirror made from a single piece of polished glass, the exact shape of which changes 100 times per second to counteract, in real time, the distorting effects of the air on the starlight that it is trying to detect.

Jobs noted during its introduction that there isn't a single piece of straight glass in its entire construction.

Leading me around the palatial apartment, he points out how the shower doorframe is made of solid bronze, how the kitchen cupboards are single pieces of curved glass, how the spiral staircase has solid stone treads.

You can use a single piece of paper instead, and the glass will still reflect it to appear on both sides.[3].