Inclined-plane Sentence Examples

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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