Sentence examples for turning axis from inspiring English sources

The balanced rudder and the semibalanced rudder (see illustration) are shaped so that the force of the water flowing by the rudder will be balanced or partially balanced on either side of its turning axis, thus easing the pressure on the steering mechanism or the helmsman.

After all, he disrupted the carefully scripted Woody Allen tribute at the Golden Globes by turning the axis of Diane Keaton's gushing spin and forcing the dialogue to return to another actress, namely his mother, Mia Farrow, as well as his siblings.

Following this the advance came to a halt as torrential rain turned the axis of advance into "a sea of mud" and many of the bridges upon which the Australian supply system was dependent were washed away.

This easy axis turns into a hard axis, and the magnetic moments prefer to lie in the c plane when ( {K}_u^{mathrm{grain}} ) is negative.

In the 18th century, Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler showed that the movement of a rigid body across the surface of a sphere can be described as a rotation (or turning) around an axis that goes through the centre of the sphere, known as the axis of rotation.

Earth must still be turning on its axis, because "The Nutcracker" is back at City Ballet.

The world is still turning on its axis and the days are crossed off the calendar in the conventional order.

Here we add labels to a log-scale axis, turning off the minor tick marks since they are not informative.

Both the centrifugal force and the apparently spinning stars would be indications that the merry-go-round is, in fact, turning on its axis.

JANUARY was the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, and the planet nearly stopped turning on its axis to recognize the occasion.

"It is a magnificent globe, encompassed by a stupendous double ring; attended by seven satellites; ornamented with equatorial belts; compressed at the poles; turning upon its axis; mutually eclipsing its ring and satellites, and eclipsed by them".