How To Use Centre of gravity In A Sentence

  • His low centre of gravity and explosive running power are huge advantages. Times, Sunday Times
  • This brings the centre of gravity directly over the right foot, which supports her weight.
  • Nectary tissue volume was calculated with the non-circular section toroids ' formula: V = 2 sr, where s = nectary sectional area and r = nectary radius measured from the sections' centre of gravity (n = 4 flowers per species).
  • He identifies himself with its centre of gravity, its mass, its weight.
  • Wooden drivers had a higher centre of gravity, and it was tough to get them airborne off the ground unless you had a swing like Sam Snead's.
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Linguix writing coach
  • It is defined as an average distance from the centre of gravity of a polymer coil to the chain end.
  • But his low centre of gravity, immense power and deceptive turn of pace meant that as a defender, he was a formidable beast. Times, Sunday Times
  • The end instrumental ‘Centre of Gravity’ is a worthy corker too, layered drone like synths that make you want to lie back close your eyes and drift away in their slipstream of cathedralesque abandonment.
  • Application of Integral Calculus: (a) To Geometry, rectification of curves, quadrature of surfaces, plane and curved, cubature of volumes; (b) To Mechanics, centre of gravity of bodies, attractions, etc. A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of The Furman University, for 1860-'61
  • The choker arch extends hydraulically toward the load then retracts as the load is winched in, lifting the butts onto the rear deck of the machine closer to its centre of gravity.
  • Where there is one self-luminious body (or sun) in the interstellary spaces, there are probably not less than forty non-luminous or dark cosmical bodies revolving about their respective centres of light and heat, as the attending planets revolve about the common centre of gravity in our own system. Life: Its True Genesis
  • One step required knowing the location of the centre of gravity of any segment of a parabolic conoid.
  • The engine has a low centre of gravity, the wing is like a banquet table and its height, at 1050 mm, is only an inch taller than a GT40.
  • Under Democrats and Republicans the centre of gravity of politics has moved steadily to the right.
  • This system also permits a very low centre of gravity for the total fin profile.
  • You should feel your centre of gravity to be located down through the hips.
  • Think of him running across Pierre Wome, jinking inside, the low centre of gravity keeping him on his feet and helping him evade the tackle.
  • This brings the centre of gravity directly over the right foot, which supports her weight.
  • The net effect of warm air rising and cold air sinking is to decrease the ‘centre of gravity’ of the system because the cold air is more dense than the warm air.
  • Therefore a crouched position should be taken up which keeps the centre of gravity lower.
  • The centre of gravity was so close to the tipping line that a minor force would cause the casualty.
  • To rebuild a productive economy and shift its centre of gravity from finance demands decisive public intervention: a core of publicly owned and remutualised banks to drive investment in transport, energy and housebuilding, for a start. The City of London isn't a national interest – it's a class interest | Seumas Milne
  • Gurney reckons this design makes the bike more stable because the centre of gravity is lower.
  • In particular he finds, in book 1, the centre of gravity of a parallelogram, a triangle, and a trapezium.
  • It did not want the political centre of gravity to shift across the river.
  • In the same way, when running for a shot, try to keep your centre of gravity under control.
  • It also alters the aircraft's centre of gravity, making it harder to fly when in manual mode rather than autopilot. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fairness to ourselves, however, it must be said that during part of that time there were only four of us engaged upon the work, Cunningham being busy upon calculations of stability, the relative positions of the centre of gravity and the metacentre of the new schooner, and I know not what beside, in connection with the determination of the amount of ballast that would be needed, the position of the masts, and the area and proportions of the several sails -- for now that the engineer was fairly mounted upon his new hobby there was no possibility of dragging him out of the saddle. Turned Adrift
  • It also alters the aircraft's centre of gravity, making it harder to fly when in manual mode rather than autopilot. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some 3D systems can calculate volume, weight, moments of inertia, and centre of gravity of fairly complex shapes.
  • If a plane figure is rotated about an axis in its plane then the volume of the solid body formed is equal to the product of the area with the distance travelled by the centre of gravity.
  • The women were fitted with insoles to test their centre of gravity and a belt to monitor their posture. The Sun
  • The centre of gravity in Europe is shifting decisively east, to where new blocs and alliances are already forming.
  • Under Democrats and Republicans the centre of gravity of politics has moved steadily to the right.
  • The centre of gravity had at last moved away from Berwick.
  • ... with their trunks (the beams carefully supported at their centre of gravity, the logs carefully supported at their centre of gravity, the elephants without a smile at_ their _centre of gravity) Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses
  • Its centre of gravity had shifted markedly to the right.
  • In this position the gorilla's weight-line (or ‘centre of gravity’ line) falls between the forelimbs and the hind limbs.
  • Because the four cylinders in the engine lie flat, this car has a lower centre of gravity than is usual. Times, Sunday Times
  • Body movements to counteract the tendency to rigidity in the flexor groups of spinal muscles will be especially useful, as the stiffness of these is one of the causes of displacement forward of the centre of gravity, a displacement which results in the festination symptom usually seen in such cases. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
  • The car comes with a long wheelbase combined with widened racks, lower centre of gravity, sporty and direct steering and a responsive 6-speed gearbox.
  • Liberator crews used the instrument to calculate gross weight and centre of gravity, as well as to examine the effect of the centre of gravity of crew movement, fuel consumption and release of bomb loads.
  • But his low centre of gravity, immense power and deceptive turn of pace meant that as a defender, he was a formidable beast. Times, Sunday Times
  • Frank recalled that Gerard partook in all the sports activities and was top scorer in their indoor soccer tournament ‘because he had such a low centre of gravity no-one could get the ball off him!’
  • This system also permits a very low centre of gravity for the total fin profile.
  • Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted northwards.
  • The stars are nuclear furnaces, where the perpetual gravitational infall is exactly balanced by the outflow of energy generated, literally, at the centre of gravity, the core of the star.
  • The centre of gravity of machinery of Chinese paper box, moving by boreal Xiang Na.
  • Two face-centred cubic lattices can also interpenetrate in such a way that every point belonging to the one lattice is at the centre of gravity of a tetrahedron whose vertices are points belonging to the other lattice. Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 - Presentation Speech
  • She would spin off, like a Texan tornado, and establish her centre of gravity in paradise!
  • When their feeling for the river's lore drew them, by a spiritual gravitation, to a common centre -- to learn, for instance, that Council Bend and Council Island were named for one of those historic "confabs" between the white man and the red which shouldered the red brother once and forever away from the sunrise and across the great river -- that centre of gravity was the captain's chair, their tutor the first mate. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
  • Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted northwards.
  • The low centre of gravity which results from the horizontal engine design has several benefits.
  • Any line through the dumb-bell's centre of gravity, perpendicular to the main axis, is also an axis of rotation.
  • The new powertrain lowers the car's centre of gravity, which ought to improve roadholding. Times, Sunday Times
  • But a broader change is under way as the economic centre of gravity shifts eastwards.
  • Basically it's a series of counterbalanced weights which moves the camera's centre of gravity away from the operator whilst still allowing them to perform camera moves.
  • In mechanics Archimedes discovered fundamental theorems concerning the centre of gravity of plane figures and solids.
  • It states that the centre of gravity of a semicircle divides the radius in the ratio 3: 7.
  • Some 3D systems can calculate volume, weight, moments of inertia, and centre of gravity of fairly complex shapes.
  • Burkett was rather small, rather bow-legged, a low centre of gravity.
  • He has the low-slung centre of gravity that most of the greatest players shared.
  • She would spin off, like a Texan tornado, and establish her centre of gravity in paradise!
  • For the defuzzification method was chosen a Centre of Gravity method (COG) since it is common and practical for the developement of the fuzzy system and it insures required continuity and graduality of an outcome [12]. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Any line through the dumb-bell's centre of gravity, perpendicular to the main axis, is also an axis of rotation.
  • The only exciting thing that happened all day was when the top came off the scaffolding tower, unbalanced by about a hundredweight of slate which had been injudiciously stacked all on the same side of its centre of gravity.
  • Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted northward.
  • It is defined as an average distance from the centre of gravity of a polymer coil to the chain end.
  • It did not want the political centre of gravity to shift across the river.
  • Two face-centred cubic lattices can also interpenetrate in such a way that every point belonging to the one lattice is at the centre of gravity of a tetrahedron whose vertices are points belonging to the other lattice. Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 - Presentation Speech
  • But his low centre of gravity, immense power and deceptive turn of pace meant that as a defender, he was a formidable beast. Times, Sunday Times
  • More importantly, it provides a kind of centre of gravity around which the main living volume begins to pinwheel.
  • His ship, the HMS Captain, required several unusual and dangerous modifications however, including a so called "hurricane deck" which raised the ship's centre of gravity.
  • The new powertrain lowers the car's centre of gravity, which ought to improve roadholding. Times, Sunday Times

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):

This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy