Sentence example with the word 'curvatures'

curvatures

Last update: July 8, 2015


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Any attempt to interfere with these directions, by placing the seedlings in abnormal positions, is frustrated by the seedlings themselves, which change their direction of growth by bringing about curvatures of the different parts of their axes, so that the root soon grows vertically downward again and the stem in the opposite direction.   [Please select]

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In all these the exterior mouldings follow the same curvatures as the inner mouldings, and are thus distinguishable from arches the heads of which are only foliated within.   [Please select]

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The freely projecting portion is generally curled inwards, and the carinal portion more or less outwards,--the form of the letter =S= being thus approached; but the curvatures are not exactly in the same plane.   [Please select]

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Mouldings were discovered of incomparable elegance; the figures on entablatures were found to be chiselled accurately from nature; the pillars were of matchless proportions, the capitals of graceful curvatures.   [Please select]

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VOLCANIC CONES HAVE SIMILAR CURVATURES It is entirely of these cindery fragments heaped up with marvellous rapidity round the orifice that the volcano itself is first formed.   [Please select]

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Hoffer (1838) and afterwards Pennethorne (1846) and Penrose (1851) gave measurements showing the curvatures in the Parthenon and the temple of Theseus in Athens.   [Please select]

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