Sentence examples for vertical plumb from inspiring English sources

It cannot generate vertical plumb lines.

These values give the distance of the apex of the cervical and lumbar lordosis from a virtual vertical plumb line [ 19], yielding a fairly good approximation of the extent of thoracal kyphosis [ 7]).

The initial hypothesis of this prospective study stated that patients with different sagittal jaw positions show different back shape curvatures regarding the upper thoracic and the pelvic inclination to a vertical plumb line, the kyphotic angle and the lordotic angle.

Using a 4- or 6 foot (1.2 - 1.8 m) level, draw a vertical plumb line on the drywall 1/2 inch (1.27 cm) in from the rough opening.

Vertical plumbing, the classic geodetic procedure for detecting the inclination has certain drawbacks and can be replaced by modern technology if necessary.

Two other angles provide orientation data with respect to the vertical line (plumb line); 1) the angle of the upper thoracic inclination (UTI), which is virtually the angle spanned by the vertical and the ICT tangent, 2) the angle of the pelvic inclination (PI), virtually the angle spanned by the vertical and the tangent ILS.

What if, instead of parallel vertical lines plumbing darkness, we thought of history horizontally?

Make sure that horizon members are level and vertical sections are plumb.

It tells you — believe it or not — that "vertical," "perpendicular," and "plumb" differ each from the two others.

The carpenter turned his back on our tilting walls and took his vertical from a plumb line and his horizontal from a bubble level, and then went to work by the light of these absolutes.

But the person who can cut a hedge as vertical as a plumb line, and get it to look green all the way down, is the subject of much envy.