Sentences with phrase «relatively flat surface»

The seats created a relatively flat surface for her, but I could tell she preferred our station wagon's taller rear digs.

The surface is significantly altered during synthesis, with 70 % of the relatively flat surface, referred to as (110), turning into a more open arrangement of short triangular - shaped protrusions with (111) facets.

The first 30 months of the project constitute phase 1, at the end of which Boston Dynamics will have to deliver two prototype LS3s that can carry the required weight (181 kilograms) a required distance (at least 32 kilometers) across a relatively flat surface.

Not exact matches

The design they opted for was an attenuated letter S. And the wheel itself offered the opportunity to showcase the logo, because its spokes had relatively fat, flat surfaces facing the side — unlike most wheels, whose thin spokes render graphics impractical.

Royal Liverpool has uncharacteristically flat greens for an Open Championship course, with relatively few undulations and bumps on larger putting surfaces.

Capasso's research group announced the finding in 2012, but at that time, they had only demonstrated the coating on relatively smooth, flat surfaces like silicon.

Due to its moderate temperatures, constant sunlight, flat surfaces, and relatively plentiful resources, the crater offers a livable landscape suitable for habitation.

The wing's upper surface arches upward, whereas its bottom surface is relatively flat.

Deep underneath the open sea lies the other major topographic surface of the seafloor, the relatively flat abyssal plain.

To the researchers» surprise, their calculations showed that turbulent flows of a class of superfluids on a flat surface behave not like those of ordinary fluids in 2 - D, but more like 3 - D fluids, which morph from relatively uniform, large structures to smaller and smaller structures.

The researchers were able to see signs of watery adaptation not seen in other dinosaurs: a small nostril located far back on the head, apparently to limit water intake; relatively long forelimbs; big flat feet suitable for paddling as well as walking on muddy ground; and very dense limb bones, which would have allowed Spinosaurus to submerge itself rather than float at the surface.

Keep it on the level — Your excavated area should be relatively flat or level so that water can disperse evenly over the surface.

Around town, we noticed that as long as the road remained relatively flat (or on a downward grade) and we feathered the throttle, the Fusion was quite willing to remain in EV mode all the way up to the speed limit on most surface roads.

The relatively flat top surface of the dashboard appears to give a good view of the road ahead in the new Duster.

The resulting surface can be relatively smooth and flat or marked with wrinkles or irregular wave - like patterns.

Jacob (and many, many others) seem to think that if model A, when run from 1900 to present, predicts the relatively flat, global average surface temperature record over the past decade, is a better match to reality than model B which does not.

The 60S - 60N averaged sea surface temperatures have been relatively flat since 2001 as shown in a personal communication from NOAA, that should be widely available soon.

In this context, it seems that he things that Von Storch, Judy, and Tamsin are the one's who will have credibility of «the pause» in land surface temps continues to be relatively flat for another year — and as a result, is projecting his views onto the wider public.

Meanwhile, global surface temperatures have been relatively flat over the past decade and a half, according to data from the U.K.'s weather - watching Met Office.

Global average sea surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s but have been relatively flat for the past 15 years.

«Global mean surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s but have been relatively flat over the most recent 15 years to 2013,» the Met says.

«Over relatively short, non-climate timescales (less than 20 - 30 years), these patterns of natural variability can lead to all kinds of changes in global and regional near - surface air temperature: flat, increasing, or even decreasing trends,»

Seventeen years without a temperature increase is also at odds with a report by the United Kingdom's Met Office that said «global mean surface temperatures rose rapidly from the 1970s, but have been relatively flat over the most recent 15 years to 2013.»

The little rounded square sits up off of any flat surface with a rubberized ring that keeps the relatively light box from sliding around from the bends of stiff cables.