Sentence examples for undersurface from inspiring English sources

Supersonic and hypersonic aircraft are usually designed with the engine as an integral part of the undersurface of the fuselage, while in some special military stealth applications, the engine is entirely submerged within the wing or fuselage structure.

Chondromalacia patella, also called chondromalacia of the patella, condition in which the cartilage on the undersurface of the kneecap (patella) becomes softened or damaged.

Early airfoils typically had little more than a slightly curved upper surface and a flat undersurface.

When this occurs, the action of the moving water either causes the undersurface to melt or retards the thickening.

A median fold, the frenulum of the prepuce, passes to the undersurface of the glans to reach a point just behind the urethral opening.

The genital orifice of both sexes is on the undersurface of the second abdominal segment, although in some mites it may be dorsal.

The undersurfaces of the toes are roughened for grasping slippery prey.

The most typical external structures of wacke beds are sole markings, which occur on their undersurfaces.

The bryozoans attached their undersurfaces to the seafloor and formed either fanlike, twiglike, or small knobby colonies of calcium carbonate in areas characterized by low rates of sedimentation.

It is held by some authorities that lightning is closely associated with the appearance of precipitation, especially in the form of soft hail, and that the charge and the strong electric fields are produced by ice crystals or cloud droplets striking and bouncing off the undersurfaces of the hail pellets.

As they mature, many fern sporophytes begin to produce spores in clusters of sporangia on the undersurfaces of their fronds (or vegetative "leaves").