In a state of rest, these particles have mass and are the constituents of atoms and atomic nuclei.
He brushed the treetops and brought her down, the basket bumping along the grass — "Hold on!" — before coming to an agitated state of rest.
The surface of their work is often jumpy, even hyperactive, but in "Fargo" they associated goodness with, of all things, a state of rest.
For example, contact between the hairs on the feet and the ground inhibits movement and may lead to a state of rest in some insects.
Within a separately conceived space and time, from the possible states of motion one could not find an absolute state of rest.
In the end, Potok is drawn back to Prague, "the Pearl," where he seems to achieve a temporary state of rest.
Weight and gravitational pull have the same effect on music, I think, as they do on any physical object accelerating from a state of rest.
Her encircling of him in her arms, his head against her chest, does communicate a powerful and poignant state of rest and peace.
Traditionally, it was also described as final causality, in contrast with explanation solely in terms of efficient causes (the origin of a change or a state of rest in something).
However, all matter of any type shares the fundamental property of inertia, which as formulated within Isaac Newton's three laws of motion prevents a material body from responding instantaneously to attempts to change its state of rest or motion.
The First Law on inertia states that every object will remain in a state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an external force.
