Sentence examples for surface rather than a from inspiring English sources
Most show a knobby or pebbly surface rather than a scaly texture as in most living reptiles.
carpophila of M. adscendens in having a fairly floccose pileate surface rather than a somewhat granulose surface and smaller basidiospores.
"It is a pity we are talking about a surface rather than a great shot or a great match," he said.
That means that it had to originate from an ancient area of the Martian surface, rather than a more recent lava outflow.
Also like duck-bills, the ceratopsians had very large numbers of closely packed teeth, but they formed a vertical shearing surface rather than a flat grinding surface.
The CRS stack multiparameter moveout equation in time midpoint half offset (t, x, h) domain describes a stacking surface rather than a trend in the conventional common midpoint (CMP) stack (Hertweck et al. 2007) (Fig. 2).
Therefore, says Mr Rykwert, adapting Joseph de Maistre's dictum that a nation has the government it deserves, our cities have the faces they deserve.In this book, Mr Rykwert, a noted urban historian of anthropological bent, offers a flâneur's approach to the city's exterior surface rather than an urban history from the conceptual inside out.
The same reversed "N -shaped seismic waveform, aN -shapedlevation angle trajectory iseismicble for a supersonic object launched from the earth's surface rather than an extra-terrestrial one.
The most recent of those is a new strain of coronavirus, a deadly virus that gets its name from the crown-like spikes on its surface rather than an ill-advised sponsorship deal from a Mexican beer company.
Use a writing instrument with a smooth surface rather than an angular one that can focus force.
The second (analytical) model is derived using simple physical considerations, by treating the rings as a surface rather than as a collection of individual particles, combined with an empirical anisotropy function to describe the temperature resulting from the Sun's and Saturn's heating.
