Sentences with phrase «curve than a straight line»

Instead, they flew slightly off course, following more of a curve than a straight line.

Not exact matches

What is the sense in performing poses that go against nature's design, having more to do with linear straight lines than our natural curving shape and bio-tensegrity design?

I often shape the dart - rather than sew a straight line direct to the dart point, I make a very slight curve towards the end that mirrors the bust.

There are more straight lines than swooping curves and the overall shape even borders on being boxy.

So in mathematical terms, the benefit of a higher down payment is measured in a straight line rather than by any kind of a curve.

It's much easier for me to recreate these straight lines than it is to draw the curves straight off.

The latter difference arises from the fact that most GCMs display «time - varying feedback», which results in a curve on a Gregory plot rather than a straight line.

It is certainly a better way to draw a curve through the graph than brutally sticking a straight line through it all.

The straight line shown may be less accurate than a curve passing through each of the solid dots shown (e.g., Gasson et al., 2012), but sufficient warmth gives large sea - level rise in models and has done so in Earth's history.

So the possible acceleration of losses is only barely larger than the margin of error in the readings: it's very difficult to tell the supposed loss curve from a straight line.

The plane flies what appears to be thousands unnecessary kilometers on a route that curves up near the North Pole, rather than flying in a straight line.

(Look no further than the curved antenna lines, apparently lifted straight from Apple's phone.)

The style tended to be straight lines rather than curves.