Inclined-plane Sentence Examples

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  • It has small angle-windows to light the interior inclined plane or staircase, and is not broken into storeys with grouped windows as in the case of the Lombard bell-towers.

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  • The ramparts are strengthened by two massive towers containing an inclined plane on which horses and carriages may ascend.

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  • There were a number of coalmines to the south of the site which were served by inclined plane tramways.

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  • Dubuat considered that if water were a perfect fluid, and the channels in which it flowed infinitely smooth, its motion would be continually accelerated, like that of bodies descending in an inclined plane.

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  • The main part of the city is connected with these residential districts by electric street railways, whose routes include four inclined-plane railways, namely, Mt.

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  • He proved the law of the equilibrium on an inclined plane.

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  • Its course should be as straight and as near a true inclined plane as possible.

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  • The beds thus formed should slope in an inclined plane from the conductor to the main drain, that the water may flow equably over them.

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  • Access to the stages of the ziggurat, from the court beneath, was had by an inclined plane on the south-east side.

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  • As a simple example of the geometrical method of treating statical problems we may consider the equilibrium of a particle on a rough inclined plane.

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  • He is of opinion that the insect abstracts from the air by means of the inclined plane a component force (composant) which it employs to support and direct itself.

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  • It consists of a single inclined plane stretching upwards, with a north-westerly direction, from the left bank of the river to the summits of the Carpathians.

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  • Here is the great cataract of Itamaraca, which rushes down an inclined plane for 3 m.

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  • A crane once transhipped cargo here from boats into trucks which would then descend the 237 feet inclined plane.

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