Sentence examples for slab holding from inspiring English sources

A heavy sandstone slab holding the interferometer was floated on a pool of mercury to allow rotation without vibration.

Pull the inner cardboard slab holding the horse out.

The figure on the relief slab holds a large spiral shell in the right hand and what appears to be a Spondylus shell in the left.

Often, such a device has to be mounted on a vibration isolation table, which might consist of a granite slab held steady by shock absorbers.

The proposed rock-shed protection is made of reinforced concrete slabs held up by specially designed supports that act as a type of expendable fuse to absorb high rock-fall energy especially when shock occurs on the side of the slab.

The large amount of material necessary for gravity weirs can be reduced by slab-and-buttress weirs (Figure 6.7g), or arch weirs (Figure 6.7h) In the slab-and-buttress, the vertical slab is held up against the pressure of water by the buttress, and in the arch weir the pressure of water is resisted by the buttresses at each end.

Ahead, a giant man sprawls naked atop a pink towel on an inclined slab of stone, holding his chubby arm over his eyes to block out the sun.

All these blocks and slabs are held together with mortar that drips messily down the sides.

Of those excavated so far, only two have been found with slabs that hold their name and date of burial.

Then there are the flash-memory-based models, which resemble last year's iPod Nano: thin, tall slabs that hold 4 or 8 gigabytes of music, photos and videos (for $150 and $200, like the Nano).

When we receive aural and visual information as we move through the world and when we can receive them without holding a slab of glass in our hands the importance of what we see and when we see it will become clear.