Sentence examples for slightly vertical from inspiring English sources

Perhaps because of the grid's slightly vertical proportion, the patterns and plentiful diagonals also suggest a schematic mountain range and, occasionally, the sweeping lines of a radar screen.

By assuming that the in situ vertical stress is given by Eq. 1 (Cornet et al. 2007) and that in situ the fracture was sub-horizontal (drilling-hole vertical and fracture slightly perpendicular to the drilling core), we can estimate that the in situ normal stress acting on the fracture was approximately 46 MPa.

The Gait Walker also exhibited a slightly increased vertical GRF during midstance.

I have long thought it a great sculpture, with its slightly inclined vertical planes, which, if projected, would meet a thousand feet above the earth's surface.

In contrast, unmanaged broadleaved forests had slightly higher vertical heterogeneity, canopy cover and tree richness than managed forests (Supplementary Fig. 1).

Mr. Bortugno's after-hours labor included cutting a wide slice through the floors, creating a slightly dizzying vertical space that extends from the kitchen in the basement to the brass chandelier under the roof.

While after-slip on the subduction interface induces negligible or even slightly positive vertical motions, relaxation in the asthenosphere is associated with a sizable subsidence.

Such a cause also contributes to the slightly greater vertical lapse rates of streamwater δ18O (−0.28 to −0.48‰/100 m) relative to the Himalayan front.

The roof assembly is supported by a web of 2,600 cables suspended from a circle of 12 steel masts, inclined slightly from vertical, that rise nearly 330 feet (100 metres).

The segmental mandibular sandwich osteotomy (SMSO) was finished by two (mesial and distal) slightly divergent vertical osteotomies.

The segmental mandibular sandwich osteotomy (SMSO) was finished by two (mesial and distal) slightly divergent vertical osteotomies (Fig. 2).