Sentence examples for vertical reference from inspiring English sources

Statoliths bend the hairs in the direction of gravity, providing a vertical reference direction.

This principle of the Schuler pendulum is applied in some inertial guidance systems to maintain a correct internal vertical reference, even during rapid acceleration.

The otolithic membrane and otoconia bend the hairs in the direction of gravity, providing the animal with a vertical reference direction; similar organs of balance, known as statocysts, are common in invertebrates.

The algorithm is also validated experimentally and compared to an industry standard vertical reference unit using data collected on board an offshore vessel.

This article presents an alternative algorithm utilizing a virtual vertical reference (VVR) concept, based on the mean sea level, to aid the INS.

Some bathymetry grids within this map were projected horizontally from WGS84 to NAD83 using ESRI tools to be more consistent with the vertical reference of the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88).

In order to simulate astronauts' working conditions in space, visual and tactile vertical references were provided.

We conclude that the mental rotation of letters, hand shapes, and complex scenes is not affected by short periods in microgravity when visual and tactile vertical references are provided.

Some transit telescopes use a basin of mercury to form a flat and absolutely horizontal mirror, useful in determining an absolute vertical or perpendicular reference.

This vertical interval reference (VIR) signal includes reference information for chrominance, luminance, and black.

Some of these scan lines can then be used to send other information, such as a vertical interval reference signal to calibrate colour receivers, text information to be displayed for the hard-of-hearing (closed captioning), or (in Europe) teletext.