Sentences with phrase «gradient compression on»

These are usually worn to create a controlled, gradient compression on the leg (greatest at the ankle and diminishing up the length of the leg).

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The opening shot has pinstripes of sunshine poking through the surface of emerald - green waters to a reef below, and on first pass I thought they were banding, but a closer inspection suggests the beams» compression - like gradient decay is intended to mimic the Northern Lights.

I can see isolated cases as compression at the poles and other curiosities but not on the average, and besides, even with those effects the temperature gradient is rarely actually inverted so in a net sense that is only slowing the cooling of the surface at the expense of equal cooling in the atmosphere which ends in a greater temperature gradient therefore a greater flux of energy upward to space.