Sentences with phrase «shape memory means»

«Shape memory means that wires or sheets made from a nickel - titanium alloy have a certain ability to remember their original shape: If they undergo deformation, they will return to their earlier shape.

Not exact matches

As Dom Gregory Dix, in a now famous section of his book The Shape of the Liturgy, put the matter, Christians through the ages have known of no better and more appropriate way to remember» Jesus than by participating in the offering of the Eucharist as «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixion.

This would mean that Israel's corporate memory of Moses and the Hebrews in Egypt underwent the long process of meditation; and the ensuing narrative was finally shaped and accented in devotional use - in the annual celebration, rehearsal, and re-enactment of the glorious event of divine creation in the triumphal exodus from Egypt.

What that means is that context and prediction play critical roles in shaping our perception and memory.

Milton says that in addition to constant braking force, shape memory materials have a property called hysteresis, which in an ideal climbing rope «means the material will absorb a lot of energy, so that when it stretches, instead of bouncing to where you were before, you would fall, then it would retract slowly» instead of jerking you upward.

This means that when people repeatedly practice an activity or access a memory, their neural networks — groups of neurons that fire together, creating electrochemical pathways — shape themselves according to that activity or memory.

Each body panel has been re-imagined, meaning the classic, boxy shape is now only a memory.

Lauren Slater, the psychologist and writer, notes in the introduction to «Opening Skinner's Box,» «We are far from explaining why... we hold some memories and discard others, what those memories mean to us and how they shape a life.»

But this means more than just recalling vibrant, complicated memories of the place that shaped her, or trying to understand the family that raised her.