Sentences with phrase «push against a surface»

The fan improves the ability of Rhagovelia to push against the surface tension of water.

If you believe you are stuck, or can't reach your ship, be aware you can jetpack forever whilst pushing against any surface

Not exact matches

I slide my spatula flat against the wall of the blender and ever so slightly push the mixture into the centre, which sort of feeds it back into the blades again and prevents an air bubble from forming underneath the surface.

Little ones only need to push the toy against the floor, table, or any hard surface, then let go and watch it take off!

This gives you more surface area to push your muscles against, which in turns protects your back.

That ocean water then pushes against fresh water already in the ground, causing the fresh water to rise closer to the surface and farther up the drainage wells.

In general, the larger the beads, the more they met with poroelastic resistance, as large beads with greater surface area have to push against more water to move themselves through.

By deploying the fan, the insects can increase their leg's contact with the water surface and can push against the water more forcefully.

Using an onboard source of energy (such as a battery, ultracapacitor, solar panel or any combination thereof), the electrodes will send an electrical current into the plasma, causing the plasma to push against the neutral (noncharged) air surrounding the craft, theoretically generating enough force for liftoff and movement in different directions (depending on where on the craft's surface you direct the electrical current).

Kattenhorn and Prockter saw ice volcanoes on the overriding plate, possibly formed through melting and absorption of the slab as it dove below the surface, and a lack of mountains at the subduction zone, implying material was pushed into the interior rather than crumpled up as the two plates mashed against each other.

In this model of Titan, however, the roots extending below the ice sheet are so much bigger than the bumps on the surface that their buoyancy is pushing them up against the ice sheet.

At Earth's surface, the atmosphere pushes against every 6.5 square centimeters (1 square inch) with 65.4 newtons (14.7 pounds) of force.

When fat cells push up against the skin surface, the fibrous tissue that connects skin to muscle pulls down, which causes the appearance of dimpled skin.

However in the event of a collision, forces exerted on the lap and shoulder sections of the seatbelt push the webbing against a «reaction surface» inside the latch plate, locking the webbing in place.

Kneading You When a cat is kneading you, they use their paws to push in and out against a soft surface, such as your lap.

Push up against a vertical surface and you'll lean into it, allowing you to peek over to tag guards.

Capturing a range of tropical flowers and plants protected, or trapped, in a glasshouse — depending on your point of view — there's an undercurrent of intense vitality as they crowd looking for space, some with a leaf pushing up against the surface of the steamy glass.

One suite titled Difference Surface involves 20 related panels, each one juxtaposing pattern against pattern, creating augmentations and interferences where broken symmetries are pushed into a new, wondrous realm.

Push through a dark curtain, and you emerge blinking into a dark space lit by a huge, elemental orange sun, glimmering against a black background: Katharina Sieverding's projection Die Sonne Um Mitternacht Schauen, SDO / NASA (Looking at the Sun at Midnight), 2011 - 12, which uses high - resolution Nasa images to create a dramatic, up - close image of the sun's surface.

Rhia Hurt's series pushes against our expectations of color field painting by creating uniquely shaped modular surfaces that combine conventions of sculpture and painting.

The size of the marks changed very little, but where they had more or less floated on a large surface they began to interlock, to push and pull against each other and the support.

As he has noted, his use of «push - pull dynamics and the occasional use of illusionistic perspective against raw expressionistic brushwork gives the impression of looking deep into the canvas only to be thrust back to the surface.»

There are openings to other spaces, bathed in light or cloaked in darkness, but the spatial illusion in his paintings is fused to a sense that the entire picture surface is leaning up against the picture plane, pushing into our world rather than receding away from it.

Interference pattern more likely comes from «bounce» the midpoint between the surface of the planet, and the very center of the planet, leaving a hole in the middle, that is balanced in size, against the pushes and pulls of the universe, against the mass that stay's within the earths «bubble of influence», basically, the megnetopause, the moon, the atmosphere, the water, and the cloud of charged particles that would exist above and below us, if they didn't intermingle, and / or, get blown away by the solar wind.

The study — «Possible Artifacts of Data Biases in the Recent Global Surface Warming Hiatus» — was published by Science magazine in June 2015 and pushed back against assertions from other research groups that found a pause in rising global temperatures from 1998 to 2012, which goes against climate change advocates» insistence that the earth's temperature has been on a steady incline for decades.

Coupled winds and current push surface water west to pile up against Australia and Indonesia in a vast pool of potential and thermal energy.

23) A returning warm pulse will try to expand the tropical air masses as more energy is released and will try to push the air circulation systems poleward against whatever resistance is being supplied at the time by the then level of solar surface activity.

A returning warm pulse will try to expand the tropical air masses as more energy is released and will try to push the air circulation systems poleward against whatever resistance is being supplied at the time by the then level of solar surface turbulence.

Any place in the home that draws air through a small space or which pushes room air against a surface may create ghosting.