Sentence examples for whose centres from inspiring English sources

The two stars, whose centres are separated by 2,092,000 km (about 1,300,000 miles), revolve around each other with a period of 12.5 hours.

A second tradition, deriving from Claudius Ptolemy, solved this problem by postulating three mechanisms: uniformly revolving, off-centre circles called eccentrics; epicycles, little circles whose centres moved uniformly on the circumference of circles of larger radius (deferents); and equants.

A spherical triangle was understood to mean a figure formed on the surface of a sphere by three arcs of great circles, that is, circles whose centres coincide with the centre of the sphere.

Originally, astrologers presupposed a geocentric universe in which the "planets" (including the Sun and Moon) revolve in orbits whose centres are at or near the centre of the Earth and in which the stars are fixed upon a sphere with a finite radius whose centre is also the centre of the Earth.

Instead, a simpler method was applied whereby sample plots whose centres lay outside the stand were included in any sample only if they intersected the stand boundary (Flewelling and Iles 2004, Schmid-Haas 1982).

Previously, they were classified into 10 "urban" (lying completely or partially within borders of the city proper) and 7 "suburban" municipalities, whose centres are smaller towns.

Close behind is Elisa Carrió, whose centre-left party may add another three to its 11 seats in the lower house.

"It is really quite unlikely," adds Cockell, whose centre will be officially opened this week at a ceremony in Edinburgh.

Neither Jean-Claude Juncker, whose centre-right European People's Party came first, nor Martin Schulz, his centre-left counterpart, commands a majority of seats.

In the 4th century ce the ancient line of Connaught kings was supposedly displaced by the midland rulers, whose centre was at Tara.

The strategy fails, though the makers do not.The show's heart is "Creating Luxury", a large room whose centre is filled by Philippe Malouin's "Time Elapsed" (2011).