Sentence examples for toward the axis from inspiring English sources

The cell walls of the endodermis possess a woody and corky band, called the casparian strip, around all the cell walls except those facing toward the axis and the surface of the root or stem.

Because space-charge forces tend to make the electrons diverge radially, a focusing structure is used to keep the beam at a desired diameter by causing diverging electrons to be sent toward the axis of the helix.

Emerging from centuries of Ottoman rule, Bulgaria gained its independence in the late 19th century, joined the losing side of several conflagrations in the first half of the 20th century, and, despite gravitating toward the Axis powers in World War II, found itself within close orbit of the Soviet Union by mid-century.

The ciliary muscle has been described earlier, and it has been shown that the effect of contracting its fibres is, in general, to pull the whole ciliary body forward and to move the anterior region toward the axis of the eye by virtue of the sphincter action of the circular fibres.

In the north it consists of primary sandstone, which covers the Tindouf Syncline (a fold in the rocks in which the strata dip inward from both sides toward the axis); in the centre is the vast synclinal basin of Taoudeni, bounded by the Adrar, Tagant, and ʿAçâba (Assaba) plateaus.

Each of these surfaces is approximately spherical, and at each optical interface e.g., between air and the anterior surface of the cornea the bending of a ray of light is toward the axis, so that, in effect, there are four surfaces tending to make rays of light converge on each other.

In contrast, the larger cavities tend to be elongated with the long axis aligned toward the loading axis, implying the plasticity controlled cavity growth mechanism.

Both the bulges as well as the new cDRX grains are formed as a result of dislocation-based processes that produce c-axis rotations toward the loading axis (i.e. away from the radial direction transverse direction (RD TD) plane).

It is because an earlier such point of inflection over Iran, a decade ago, tipped toward conflict, into the "axis of evil" versus the western-backed "moderates".

Again, factor change gestures were more variable, with 20% (35/171) depicting increases and decreases as movements along the left-right axis, 18% (30/171) along the toward-away axis, 32% (55/171) along the up-down axis, and the remaining 30% (51/171) involving either some combination of these axes or a more complex movement.

Factor change gestures were more spatially variable, with 21% (37/176) depicting increases and decreases as movements along the left-right axis, 29% (51/176) along the toward-away axis, 26% (45/176) along the up-down axis, and the remaining 24% (43/176) involving either some combination of these axes (e.g., simultaneously upward and rightward) or a more complex movement.