Sentence examples for surfaces lie from inspiring English sources

The precise mounting also ensures that all lenses are properly centred; that is, the centres of curvature of all the lens surfaces lie on a single straight line called the principal axis of the lens.

The scientists plan to drill into sediments whose surfaces lie as much 4,000 meters (2.5 miles) below the ocean surface, to bring up cores about 600 meters (2,000 feet) long each from as many as a half-dozen sites.

It is easy for the impact ejecta to be lost from the satellites into space because the satellites' surfaces lie fairly close to the edge of their Roche spheres due to their low density.

These elliptical "openings" in the egg surfaces lie parallel to the bedding plane and correspond to the elliptical shape of the compressed eggs (Fig. 2A).

A 30 Å filter was applied to the PDB chains for S2 and S3, and the resulting volumes (gray surfaces) lie outside of the RCT volume.

Below their siren surfaces lay not mud, but tar.

But beneath these exquisite surfaces lies a powerful political consciousness and bitter rage.

Below the road surfaces lies a warren of water mains, electrical lines and gas conduits, which the agency says is one of the densest in the nation.

On a comparative note, the difference between thin films/coatings and biomimetic patterned surfaces lies in their approach to reduce/control friction.

For nano-goniometric analysis, the AFM images recorded on the wedged tilted sample holder were first numerically rotated such that the substrate surfaces lay within the image plane.

This is due to the satellites' low density and their surfaces lying close to the edge of their Roche spheres.