Sentence examples for very shallow angle from inspiring English sources

The reason why gliders travel at such speed is gravity; they are, if you like, 'falling' at a very shallow angle, determined by the aircraft's aerodynamic design.

However, if the light has to go through the atmosphere at a very shallow angle, as it does when the object appears low on the horizon, it must pass through a large number of these lenses.

Scientists have previously tried bending an x-ray beam by bouncing it off a metal plate at a very shallow angle, like skipping a stone on water, or by manufacturing layers and layers of artificial crystals.

The Pacific plate subducts at a very shallow angle of about 10 degrees for the first 20 km depth or so, and then steepens with a dip angle gradually increasing up to about 30 degrees at ~50 km depth, the downdip end of the source area of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake (Umino et al., 1995).

Use your razor scrapper at a very shallow angle to the wood, and gently peel the tape off.

Thumbprint type cut in the petals: To add dimension to the otherwise flat petals, cut circular gouges in each one, holding the utility blade at a very shallow angle and pivoting it about the tip.

The two spacecraft were travelling at a velocity of 1.7km per second and came in at very shallow angles of a degree-and-a-half.

In contrast, anatomical studies of human auditory cortex report that core areas run along HG or at very shallow oblique angles [55], [61], [62].

We live in a very shallow age.

If the anterior chamber is very shallow and the angle is very narrow, a prophylactic iridectomy should be considered in such patients.

The angle of the casemate was also changed from the original very shallow 35° from the horizontal to an angle of 60° after Rear Admiral Joseph Smith, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, noted that it would be very difficult to work the guns at such an angle.