Sentence examples for small drifts from inspiring English sources

By employing small drifts (horizontal passageways), braced to a central core, liner-plate technique has been successful in larger tunnels Figure 4 shows 1940 practice on the 20-foot tunnels of the Chicago subway.

By comparing these forces to small drifts in the asteroid's measured orbit, Rozitis and his colleagues were able to calculate its mass, which was 2.1 trillion kilograms.

We demonstrate that the measured 14C/12C isotope ratio is largely unaffected by small drifts in the argon stripper gas density.

Delivering economical design of the VSSC T 2 control chart on the presence of fixed sampling intervals and exponentially distributed assignable causes is the main contribution of the present study which provides more sensitivity in the traditional Hotelling's T2 control chart in rapid detecting of small drifts in the process mean vector.

This enables the encoder to operate as a closed look DPCM, which eliminates the accumulation of error arising from quantization and small drifts over time.

While performing spike sorting we indeed saw small drifts of waveform shape.

Snow accumulated in a small drift on the bill of Raiders Coach Jon Gruden's visor.

There was a small drift of dispirited people trying hard to discover what it was all about.

An opening at the top can be closed by two pairs of plates (an operculum) through which feathery, jointed legs (cirri) can be extended into the water to capture small drifting plants and animals (plankton).

The minimalist artists were rigorous about the cool visual terms in which their work was photographed, but here the sculptures invade each other's space, moving bodies ruin their pure lines and a cleaner arrives to remove a small drift of dust from the ordered precincts of a Morris piece.

During operation of the cyclotron heat dissipation of the RF system induces a small drift in iron temperature.