Pointer Sentence Examples

The lines traced out by the vibrating pointer are thus prevented from overlapping when more than one turn is given to the cylinder.

A comparison with the method of a material pointer, attached to the parts whose rotation is under observation, and viewed through a microscope, is of interest.

The weighing is conducted in the usual way by vibrations, except when the weight be small; it is then advisable to bring the pointer to zero, an operation rendered necessary by the damping due to the adhesion of water to the fibre.

A pointer to the XEvent that triggered the callback.

It is probable that pointer blood was introduced in the course of shaping the various breeds of setter.

This may be a useful pointer toward ID as Ive not seen chasers doing this.

The pointer cursor image is not included in the returned contents.

And yet the reader is provided with a pointer in the rather fussy pun on ' odyssey ' .

The mouse pointer should change from a magnifying glass to a normal pointer and should let you do some quick editing before printing.

It does, however, have significant advantages over the pointer method which far outweigh the minor drawback of adding extra code.

We won 5-0 with Jimmy Robson bagging a hat trick whilst Trevor Meredith and Ray Pointer were both still on the scoresheet.

Also, the amount of pointer indirection is taken into account when determining similarity.

The corresponding argument is a pointer to an unsigned integer.

But I've never experienced " pointer lockups and such " .

I have not misread the pointer of the scales to cheat the buyer.

Use the pointer to indicate the outlier in the data " .

To enter the user mode from the (power on) supervisor mode, the user stack pointer is first preset to $ 2000.

The address member specifies a pointer to the address.

Users with mouses can hover the pointer over an image to read the text description.

To copy an article, simply left click and drag the mouse pointer to select the desired text.

Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?

To resize a floating control bar move the mouse pointer over the edge of the control bar window.

Using a dangling pointer to access something that isn't there any more can make a real mess of things.

A non-NULL pointer will generally be returned except in out-of-memory conditions or serious errors such as inability to send the command to the backend.

Detailed Description A smart pointer to an actual image.

Or to put it another way, Java has pointers, but no pointer arithmetic.

Place the mouse pointer over an area of the bar not occupied by buttons or fields.

The remote control with laser pointer now gives you the option of controlling the lamp mode.

A register called the stack pointer (SP) points to the top of the stack.

If the iterator has advanced past the last item in the container, a nil pointer will be returned.

Attractive silver dial with square pattern on inner part of the dial and contrasting sweep second hand red arrow pointer.

Such a pointer can be referred to as an array pointer.

The three rings of indexing holes in the headstock pulley were engaged by a pointer mounted on a swinging bracket.

A pointer to the screen of the previous terminal is returned by the rou- tine.

Each time you kill, the " last yank " pointer moves to the newly made entry at the front of the ring.

D is the drum-head which gives the fraction of a revolution, d that which gives the whole number of revolutions, I is the index or pointer at which both drums are read.

The wire being paid out without slack measures the actual distance and speed over the ground, and the engineer in charge is relieved of all anxiety in estimating the depth from the scattered soundings of the preliminary survey, or in calculating the retarding strain required to produce the specified slack, since the brakesman merely has to follow the indications of the instrument and regulate the strain so as to keep the pointer at the figure required - an easy task, seeing that the ratio of speed of wire and cable is not affected by the motion of the ship, whatever be the state of the sea, whereas the will I',/ OW= o a ' 30 30 ao.

We may infer that the limits of efficiency in the two methods are the same when the length of the pointer is equal to the width of the mirror.

Minor improvements in tangent sights certainly were made, notably an automatic clamp, but quadrant elevation was mainly used, and in the case of guns equipped with position-finders (see Range-Finder) the guns could be layed for direction by means, of a graduated arc on the emplacement and a pointer on the mounting.

Sage-hens, grouse and small birds the coyote hunts successfully alone, quartering over the ground like a trained pointer until he succeeds in locating his bird, when he drops flat in the grass and creeps forward like a cat until close enough for the final spring."

This function takes a pointer, sops, to an array of semaphore operation structures.

Segment registers and the stack pointer will not be passed between modes.

The stack frame can also be accessed via the frame pointer.

The XtSuperclass function returns a pointer to the widget 's superclass class structure.

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The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather Watcher system tray icon.

Also, warping the pointer can cause problems for users of absolute location pointing devices (like graphics tablets).

A white pointer killer shark has been feeding on surfers and bathers just off the beach, it 's ' Jaws ' for real.

By spinning the ball with your thumb, you can move the pointer on your computer desktop just as you normally would by moving the mouse itself.

Some puzzles allow you to select the first letter and drag the pointer to the last letter.

You can choose from the Dalmation, Beagle, Golden Retriever, Labrador Retriever, German Shepherd and German Short-haired pointer breeds.

From this screen, you will be able to set the pointer setting to the slowest speed.

You get the Rigel 3200 Pro goggles along with a conversion kit, two sets of spare batteries, flashlight, and laser pointer.

Clicking on it (in Classic and Action modes) brings up a small white pointer arrow that indicates a spot where a swap can be made.

After picking your combatant, move your pointer over to them in your player slot and click.

To start with a particular Pokemon using Pokemon Trainer, use your pointer to tag that Pokemon after placing your token on Pokemon Trainer.

Just use the on-screen pointer to direct to the Channel you want to access, click the main "A" button, and away you go!

Drawing is as simple as clicking and dragging the mouse pointer across the canvas.

You control the firing angle of the ball, aiming it with your mouse pointer at the slowly-moving group of balls on the board.

The frog can only spin in place, not move, and it follows your mouse pointer.

The two points to stimulate that have previously led to induction in full-term pregnancies are a spot on the inner lower leg about four fingers above the ankle bone and the loose skin of the hand between the thumb and the pointer finger.

Asking it a second time, it responded even quicker as the plastic pointer raced back to "NO" again.

Many people make the claim that the movement of the pointer is the result of the vibration of people touching the it.

If the players move the pointer on purpose, the worst that can happen is that someone may be fooled and feelings may be hurt.

On the other hand, if the players are subconsiously moving the pointer, things may get dicey but still are not dangerous in a supernatural way.

A pointer is someone who is particularly good at aiming the ball and getting close to the cochonnet.

When one of a series of keys (each corresponding to a letter) arranged round a pointer is depressed, the motion of the pointer, which is geared to the shuttle armature, is arrested on coming opposite that particular key, and the transmission of the currents to line is stopped, though the armature itself can continue to rotate.

Excepting for greyhounds, however, high prices are rarely offered for sporting dogs, 300 guineas for the pointer "Coronation" and 200 guineas for the retriever "High Legh Blarney" being the best reported prices for gun dogs during the last few years.

The deflection is indicated by a pointer upon a graduated scale, the readings being interpreted by comparison with two standard specimens supplied with the instrument.

To take a reading the torsion-head is turned until an aluminium pointer attached to the coil is brought to the zero position on a small scale; the strength of the field is then proportional to the angular torsion.

It consists of a steelyard mounted on a fulcrum; one arm carries at its extremity a heavy bob and pointer, the latter moving along a scale affixed to the stand and serving to indicate when the beam is in its standard position.

This is called " quadrant elevation," and the proper inclination was given by means of the " gunner's quadrant," a quadrant and plumb bob, one leg being made long to rest in the bore, or by bringing lines scribed on the breech of the gun in line with a pointer on the carriage; these were called " quarter sights."

Personal error is to a great extent eliminated, power of vision extended, the sight is self-contained, there is no fore-sight, a fine pointer in the telescope being aligned on the target.

Skoda howitzer, which is really a mortar as defined above, direction is given by means of a pointer on the mounting and a graduated arc on the bed.

There must be two sets of elevating gears, one which brings the axis of the gun and the sights together on to the target, thus finding the angle of sight and also pointing the axis of the gun at the target, and a second by which, independent of the sight which remains fixed, the elevation due to the range can be given to the gun and read by means of a pointer and dial marked in yards for range.

The diamond-shaped pointer is always in focus; focusing for individual eyesight is effected by turning the eye-piece, which is furnished with a scale for readjustment.

Pointers are bred in the Kohistan of Kabul and above Jalalabad - large, heavy, slow-hunting, but fine-nosed and staunch; very like the old double-nosed Spanish pointer.

The end knife-edges are adjusted and tightly jammed into exact position by means of wedge pieces and set screws, and the beam is furnished with delicate adjusting weights at its top. The position of the beam with respect to the horizontal is shown by a horizontal pointer (not shown) projecting from one end of it, which plays past a scale, each division of which corresponds to the i l oth or i hth of a grain according to the size and delicacy of the machine.

Therefore an index pointer attached to the bottom of the spring, and moving past a scale would rub slightly against the case.

The weight of the goods is recorded by means of an index pointer fixed to the casing on one side of the vertical slot, and the money values are opposite the figures defining the rates per lb, which are marked on the edge of the casing below the hori zontal slot.

The corresponding pointer argument must usu- ally be of a restricted type.

On architectures with 16-bit pointer arithmetic, only very small images can be processed.

The pointer will change to the shape of a double-headed arrow.

Pointer from the Netherlands is another new European addition this season and it is very boyish indeed.

I I the edge of the disk serves as the pointer and the scale gives the percentage of slack, or (N - n)/n.

To this class belong most of the useful dogs, such as the spaniel, the setter, the pointer and the sheepdog.

The original breed is said to have been used as a pointer in the country from which it takes its name, but has been much modified by the fancier's art, and almost certainly the original strain has been crossed with bull-terriers.