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The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Starting from the cardiac orifice at the incisura cardiaca, it forms an arch backward, upward, and to the left; the highest point of the convexity is on a level with the sixth left costal cartilage. XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach
Made of Austenitic stainless steel. There is no dead angle, no concave - convex face.
P. testa ovata, rimata, ferruginea; spira mediocri, apice eroso; anfractibus tribus, convexis, simplicibus, transversim crebre crenato-striatis; apertura ovata, intus purpurascente; labio tenui, late reflexo; labro acuto. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart

Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
With the one exception of its monstrous size, there were the characteristics in plain view; -- the convex body, the large head, the projecting clypeus. The Beetle
Caspar, a blessing of a human being, with his expression as open as a convex mirror. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
The posterior chamber is separated from the vitreous body by a transparent biconvex lens.
In fact, a plano-convex crystal lens has been found among the ruins of Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
McElwee contrasts convex and concave forms with building recesses and relief carvings.
The inferior has eight distinct ridges none of which reach the apex; these divide this strongly convex face into nine slightly concave facets, of which those adjacent to the carinae are the widest, (Fig. 36, A.) side view, natural size, (Fig. 37,) viewed from the point, showing the division into parts and its polygonal form. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
A polarity is set up between the assertive convex solidity of Broadcasting House and the receptive concavity and lightness of the suspended facade.
Fore and hind may bend either both backwards, as the figures marked A, or in the opposite way both forwards, as in B, or in converse ways and not in the same direction, as in C where the fore bend forwards and the hind bend backwards, or as in D, the opposite way to C, where the convexities are turned towards one another and the concavities outwards. On the Gait of Animals
Only this bike offers adjustability for toe-in in its road brakes via concave/convex washers.
A large convex molding, semicircular in cross section, located at the base of a classical column.
The convex shape of the hill made approaches to it from below difficult to detect. IN LOVE AND WAR
So might cover the marbles with gladwrap first as a buffer to keep their convexness from being too convex. September 12th, 2007
The body is prismoid in form, narrower above than below, and slightly curved, so as to be convex lateralward. II. Osteology. 6a. 5. The Radius
The steroid treatment consisted of three implants per ear inserted subcutaneously on the convex surface of the ear.
To do this a double sage-knife is run flatwise between the coronary cushion and the cartilage, with the convex surface of the blade towards the skin. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
From the level of tooth one to tooth five, the lateral surface is slightly convex.
The = pileus = is thin, conic, bell-shaped to convex and nearly expanded, sometimes with a small umbo, smooth, and finely striate on the margin, in age the striæ sometimes rugulose from the upturning of the margin. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
Their molds demonstrate that lenses were numerous, biconvex, hexagonal in outline and arranged in an hexagonal close-packing system.
The upper mandible, which is strongly convex, exhibits upon its median line a slight ridge, which is quite wide at its origin, and then continues to decrease and becomes sensibly depressed as far as to the center of its length, and afterward rises on approaching the anterior extremity, where it terminates in a powerful hook, which seems to form Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
Negative refraction implies that a converging lens made from negative-index material should have a concave surface rather than a convex one.
A convex polygon with a triangle attached to one of its edges in this way is called a barbed polygon.
In this way plano-convex lenses are easily and cheaply made. On Laboratory Arts
V. testa turbinata, globoso-conica, late umbilicata, spira elatiuscula, epidermide tenui fusco-viridi obtecta; anfractibus convexis, ad suturas subplanatis, faciis tribus vel quatuor angustis olivaceo-viridibus transversis ornatis; anfractu ultimo inflato, lineis duabus impressis ad peripheriam instructo; apertura ovata, postice subangulata; labio simplici; labro acuto. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
And owls, I hear, have eyes as big as the glasses of a convex lamp. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
It weighs 440 g. One surface is smoothly convex and may have been used as a grinding stone.
Narrow, smooth longitudinal ridges are visible on both sides of a wide, more or less elevated central convexity with a rather irregular surface.
The oral shield is rhombic but often with an obtuse proximal angle and a convex distal edge.
+Cap+ dark chestnut color, 1½ to 2½ inches broad, thick, convex, covered with a tough gluten, margin inflexed, flesh white or yellowish. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
These are smooth, with a slight silvery sheen on the grooved upper surface, sculptured with raised veins on the convex lower surface, and with a few crenations on the margins.
Their upper surfaces, however, vary from convex to exceptionally flat.
Bricks still plano-convex; stamped inscriptions begin. How to Observe in Archaeology
(Gr. [Greek: kissos], ivy), biconvex; xystroidal or sistroidal (Gr. [Greek: xystris], a tool for scraping), concavo-convex; amphicoelic Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Disposition has also its concave and convex lenses, which magnify some things and minify others. The True Citizen, How to Become One
Galileo's telescope consisted of two lenses -- one plano-convex, the other plano-concave, the latter being held next the eye. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
The _first glume_ is concave, pale yellow, shining and cartilaginous to about 2/3 its length from the base, and the upper third is membranous, dimidiately ovate; at the back in the cartilaginous portion, there are three to six deep convex smooth ridges running across the glume; the membranous tip is thin and with anastomosing green veins; the margins of this glume are thick, narrowly incurved, ciliolate, and with a narrow wing on the outer margin. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Convex, anteriorly truncate glabella tapers forward and is outlined by broad, shallow axial and preglabellar furrows.
Depending on the structural nature of the objects such as convexity and disjointness, the resulting clipped object may itself be disjoint or may contain islands and other interesting properties. The Code Project Latest Articles
The shell is fusiform and thick, and has a conical spire and a papillated apex; whirls, convex and contracted near the sutures, and the two principal whirls are ornamented with short ribs; lines of growth distinct, and crossed by faint revolving lines; plaits, two and rather distant, and faint indications of an intermediate one. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
The body protoplasm is generally crescentic; there are two chromatin masses, the larger one, the nucleus, on the side of the convexity, the other narrower, more deeply stained situated usually on the edge of the concavity, the centrosome. Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture
The Pentamerida were biconvex with incurved beaks and were characterized by an internal muscle platform, the spondylium.
Some early Shields are represented as _bowed_ -- hollowed, that is, in order to cover more closely the person of the bearer, and consequently having a convex external contour, as in No. 39. The Handbook to English Heraldry
Even more so than in Morganucodon, the anterior lamina of the petrosal is medially convex, leaving deep fossa for the semilunar ganglion, the root node of the trigeminal nerve.
The = pileus = is hemispherical to convex, and expanded, smooth, whitish, with a tinge of straw color, and covered with torn, thin floccose patches of the upper half of the circumscissile volva. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
He likened this to asking an artisan to explain how the convex surface of a peg can possibly fill that of a concave hole.
Towards the suture the elytron is raised so as to form a very prominent keel down the back of elytra; the general surface of the elytra is somewhat pustulose, and there are three slightly elevated, longitudinal lines, nearly meeting (but indistinctly) behind on the convex part of each elytron. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
With no need to allow for a transmission, shifter and cardan tunnel, the designers took advantage of the opportunity to create a particularly slim and lightweight centre tunnel and convex, arching centre console. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
A steady-state example would be a concavo-convex slope profile with a concave lower portion and a convex upper slope typical of humid climates.
After Hardwar the valleys would occasionally widen into a great green opera of cultivation terraces, falling away like the tiers of a Greek amphitheatre into the convex bowl of the mountainside.
The anterior slope is long and straight to weakly convex, while the posterior slope is concave and more steeply inclined than that of N. hazeni.
Generally, foreland basins show convex-up subsidence curves due to increasing subsidence rates through time resulting from migration of a supra-crustal orogenic load towards the foreland.
The capital, which should be as high as the radius of the bottom of the column, is composed of an abacus, an echinus (a convex moulding with gently swelling curve), and annulets (or rings) next to the column.
Keel angle and body concavity / convexity measurements (described above) were recorded from CT scans at several locations along the body.
The stone tool assemblage includes convex end scrapers, bifacially-flaked small knives, and flattened discoids and microliths.
However, its most obvious feature would almost certainly have been the convex crests that grew from the dorsolateral edges of the squamosal bones at the back of its skull. Archive 2006-09-01
The coins of these two Greek states in particular were for a long period concavo-convex disks, the convex side being in all instances the obverse. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886
I wouldn't say your stomach was big — it's just slightly convex.
There is alfo an ancipital leaf, having two prominent longitudinal angles, with a convex difk •, as in Sifyrhichium. The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
The cervical curve, convex forward, begins at the apex of the odontoid process, and ends at the middle of the second thoracic vertebra; it is the least marked of all the curves. II. Osteology. 3b. The Vertebral Column as a Whole
Caspar, a blessing of a human being, with his expression as open as a convex mirror. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
Gladstone sees him level, Bloom for Bloom. he passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington, but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy. Ulysses
The crystalline lens, which provides approximately 30% of the refractive power, is biconvex and has the ability to change its shape to increase or decrease its focusing power.
The lateral profile is trigonal, and the posterior rostral face convex.
In general, the north sides are concave in both their horizontal and vertical sections, having been sculptured into this shape by the residual glaciers that lingered in the protecting northern shadows, while the sun-beaten south sides, having never been subjected to this kind of glaciation, are convex or irregular. The Yosemite
Those are tools useful in the field of convex processing, and more precisely to solve a problem called convex feasbility ... Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
Galileo's telescope had a convex object lens but a concave eye-piece.
He also studied infinite series, the gamma function and inequalities for convex functions.
There is also evidence of a borzoi cross entering the mix along the way, that evidence revealing itself in the convex profile of the bull terrier's head.
The telescope contains a large convex mirror to collect the light.
This paper considers a convex programming with an additional reverse convex constraint. A kind of conical branch and bound method is developed and convergence conditions are obtained.
If memory serves, weren’t bars of soap convexed on both sides? Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Skimpy Peanut Butter — Part 2
And owls, I hear, have eyes as big as the glasses of a convex lamp. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Marbles at one end and cannon-balls at the other, Maz was all about convexities. Warthearm
This hypothesis generates an infinite set of indifference curves which are convex to the L axis.
And owls, I hear, have eyes as big as the glasses of a convex lamp. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
A slight vacuum is pulled behind an aluminized mylar plastic film to create a very large convex mirror to collimate the visual system in many aircraft simulators. Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch
Shell compressed triangular; whorls eight, the first nuclear, the next three cancellate and showing little or no trace of varices, which show themselves on the next (fifth) distinctly for the first time, suture deep, caused by the great convexity of the whorls. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Grain is orbicular to ovate, concavo-convex, red-brown, and transversely rugose. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The proximal ventral arm plates are approximately trapezoidal with a wide convex distal edge, they are contiguous with one another at least proximally.
Adult tabularial surfaces very gently convex, or slightly depressed periaxially, downturned in interseptal loculi and deeply depressed in cardinal siphonofossula.
The new species is characterized by a transversely extended, strongly biconvex to globular shell with prominent umbones, relatively numerous costae and a notothyrial cavity supported dorsally by a short median ridge.
Objective: To search optimal solutions of convex programming problems with linear constraints.
Thallus granulose to verrucose and subareolate, sometimes inconspicuous and evanescent; apothecia minute to middle-sized, adnate or more or less immersed, exciple usually prominent and persistent, but sometimes becoming covered, disk flat to convex; hypothecium and hymenium pale to brown; spores simple, hyaline, minute, numerous in each ascus. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
While the pillows are still partially molten they are compacted together so that they display convex upper surfaces and downwards-facing cusps at their contacts.
Thallus light colored, usually thin and smooth, rarely disappearing; apothecia minute to middle-sized, 0.2 to 1 mm. in diameter, adnate scattered or crowded, flat or slightly convex, the disk pruinose, and the exciple persistent; hypothecium lighter or darker brown; hymenium usually pale; paraphyses coherent and becoming indistinct; asci cylindrico-clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 3 to 5 mic. long and 1 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
These yellowish points or crusts increase in size, become usually as large as small peas, are cup-shaped, with the convex side pressing down upon the papillary layer, and the concave side raised several lines above the level of the skin; they are umbilicated, friable, sulphur-colored, and usually each cup or disc is perforated by Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
The proximal end of the carpometacarpus is a large, trochleated, convex lump that is very obviously homologous with the semi-lunate carpal bone of non-avian maniraptoran theropods. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
A singular feature attending the salt lakes, or the hollows where water had formerly lodged, was the existence of innumerable small stones, resembling biscuits or cakes in shape, perfectly circular and flat, but a little convexed in the upper surface, they were of various sizes, and appeared to consist of lime, being formed into their present shape by the action of water. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
Under the convexity assumption on objective function, the globle convergence of this method is proved.
The oral shield is rhombic but often with an obtuse proximal angle and a convex distal edge.
Nor does it represent economics itself altogether dependably; Rothschild thinks that economists have ignored the famous “learning curve,” when what they have really done is to file it under various other headings, including “convexities,” after the way that mathematical functions representing increasing returns to scale look when graphed. Economic Principals
The Björk-Shiley convexo-concave prosthetic valve was introduced in 1979.
An Althouse-favored convex mirror, viewing rearwards on today's bicycle commute. Did you know I have the BhTV "safety tip of the day"?
It arises from the convex surface of the hamulus of the hamate bone, and the volar surface of the transverse carpal ligament, and is inserted into the ulnar side of the base of the first phalanx of the little finger. IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Hand
After Hardwar the valleys would occasionally widen into a great green opera of cultivation terraces, falling away like the tiers of a Greek amphitheatre into the convex bowl of the mountainside.
The water column was lowered over the dry grains until the convex surface just touched them.
Hence hypotheses normally refer to some qualitative properties of the functions that allegedly emerge from the formalism, such as convexity or monotony. Neoclassical economic theory
The = pileus = is convex, the disk expanded, and the margin incurved and more or less wavy or repand on the extreme edge. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
Body broadly ovate, elevated and truncate posteriorly; back oblique; dorsal impression lanceolate; scutab area very slightly excavated; ambulacral spaces broad, triangular, depressed; interambulacral spaces slightly convex; anteal furrow broad and shallow, sides slightly gibbous; sub-anal impressions broadly ob-cordate; post-oral spinous space broadly lanceolate. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
A convex rib is arranged on the edge of the clamp groove. The opening end of the main clamping plate is provided with an inclined part.
Anteriorly, the ventral surface of the vomer is narrow and ventrally convex.
The _second glume_ is the longest, linear-lanceolate, rigid, tip obtuse or emarginate, slightly convex with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
This is wrapped in a rhomboidal grid, like a giant fishing net, infilled with a mixture of flat, concave and convex panels of glass.
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
When divided horizontally, it exhibits, to some extent, the appearance of a biconvex lens (Fig. 742), while a coronal section of its central part presents a somewhat triangular outline. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
-- Muzzle, ear-conch, and tragus similar to those of _M. lyra_; the posterior portion of the tragus, however, is longer and more attenuated upwards, and more acutely pointed; the nose-leaf is shorter, with convex sides; but the anterior concave disc is considerably larger, and the base of the thickened process is cordate; thumbs and wings as in _M. lyra_; interfemoral membrane deeper; the calcaneum stronger; colour the same. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Go for a nice belly in the blade - a nice convex curve seriously improves cutting.
Every part of the immense observatory and of the telescope is of American production, with the single important exception of the cast glass disc from which the two principal lenses, the one double convex and the other plano-concave, are produced. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World
The slopes were gentle and convex like the outer optic of a huge fish-eye lens.
Acrotretids are usually round with a convex, cap-shaped brachial valve, and a flat pedicle valve.
The edges of split faced walling are hand pitched to create a convex face.
A sleek statuette of a naked ephebe, with narrow limbs and a small convex belly, curiously anticipates, except in one small detail, Degas's nude study for an adolescent ballerina, six rooms and 4,000 years away.
The subgoal determination strategy of rolling path planning is analyzed according to various convex obstacle environment. And the accessibility of the planning algorithm is also discussed.
The middle calcaneal articular surface is small, oval in form and slightly convex; it articulates with the upper surface of the sustentaculum tali of the calcaneus. II. Osteology. 6d. The Foot. 1. The Tarsus
Got a good one on the last quiz ... the correct answer to the question was "convex" (the shape) the student was apparently thinking "concave" (a related shape) « Reply #454 on: Yesterday at 02: 16: 41 PM » Wired Campus
(alutaceous), 2 to 5 inches broad, with minute wooly scales, convex or nearly plane. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
Eventually, maybe regrettably, he falls into a slumber; unhappy and uncommitted to things, convoluted and convexed into a shape to epitomize everything. My Love For You Is Real
Thallus light colored, usually thin and smooth, rarely disappearing; apothecia minute to middle-sized, 0.2 to 1 mm. in diameter, adnate scattered or crowded, flat or slightly convex, the disk pruinose, and the exciple persistent; hypothecium lighter or darker brown; hymenium usually pale; paraphyses coherent and becoming indistinct; asci cylindrico-clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 3 to 5 mic. long and 1 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
You can either use a belt linisher or if you are sanding by hand I find that a slightly convex cork block keeps the face from becoming rounded.
The conch is thickly discoidal, with broadly convex sides and rounded venter with rounded ventral shoulders.
The plant is typical internally, but is young with small, flat or slightly convex, light-colored apothecia. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
He worked on convex functions, the Laplace transform, number theory and the mathematical theory of genetics.
Caspar, a blessing of a human being, with his expression as open as a convex mirror. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
They diminished gradually from the base, with a slight convexed swelling downward. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
Its convex shape and dogging mechanism made it look as though it were an enlarged part of a submarine, scavenged from some terrestrial scrap yard and grafted onto the bulkhead.
All the mirrors grew convex, she fingered the globe in its pregnant question mark.
One of the soft, but unpleasant missiles just alluded to, flew by the master's head one morning, and flattened itself against the wall, where it adhered in the form of a convex mass in _alto rilievo_. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
This surface is weakly convex and steepens rapidly forming a cone-like structure, or stem, which is approximately 60 Jim in diameter at the base of the cap and narrows slightly toward the stem base.
Carapace smooth, rather convex, and with three keels above; the beak, longly produced, ending in a spine, simple on the side and produced into a keel on each side behind; the central caudal lobe rather narrow, indistinctly divided in half, and like the other lobes flexile at the end, the lateral lobes with Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
The Fifth Metacarpal Bone (os metacarpale V; metacarpal bone of the little finger) (Fig. 233) presents on its base one facet on its superior surface, which is concavo-convex and articulates with the hamate, and one on its radial side, which articulates with the fourth metacarpal. II. Osteology. 6b. 2. The Metacarpus
A. [EXOGYRA COSTATA] Shell sub-oval, very thick, lower valve convex, and covered with strong corrugated ribs; apex lateral, with about two volutions; upper valve flat, thick, supplied with numerous elevated concentric squamose plates. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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The _fourth glume_ is elliptic-oblong, plano-convex, subobtuse, smooth or shining, though faintly striate, coriaceous with incurved margins; _palea_ is coriaceous, as long as the glume, elliptic, faintly striate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The small firn also rises with a common footstalk from the radix and are from four to eight in number. about 8 inches long; the central rib marked with a slight longitudinal groove throughout it's whole length. the leafets are oppositely pinnate about 1/3 rd of the length of the common footstalk from the bottom and thence alternately pinnate; the footstalk terminating in a simple undivided nearly entire lanceolate leafet. the leafets are oblong, obtuse, convex absolutely entire, marked on the upper disk with a slight longitudinal groove in place of the central rib, smooth and of a deep green. near the upper extremity these leafets are decursively pinnate as are also those of the large f rn. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Below the frontonasal suture is the bridge of the nose, convex from side to side, concavo-convex from above downward, and formed by the two nasal bones supported in the middle line by the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid, and laterally by the frontal processes of the maxillæ which are prolonged upward between the nasal and lacrimal bones and form the lower and medial part of the circumference of each orbit. II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull
The brain weighed 1380 g and showed diffusely swollen cerebral hemispheres with marked flattening of the gyri throughout the convexities.
This areola, which is more or less distinctly granular, is slightly convex, and although it seems to be on the surface is in reality covered by the outer lamina of the cell. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
The play of concavity and convexity is announced by a pair of Tanktotems, watchful, hieratic personages built out of slender, vertical steel components and sliced tank ends. Works of Many Dimensions
Test of the larva in its latest period before the first metamorphosis whitish, waxy, stelliform, having usually eight lateral radiating processes and a dorsal convex mass of wax: average length of the whole about 1/40 in.
The under, or concave, side of the voussoir is called the intrados or soffit, and the upper, or convex, side, the extrados of the arch. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
The dome is typically convex in shape and ice flows radially from the centre outwards.
On its upper side is seen a concavity which is produced by the section of the groove which runs along the convex and exterior (here upper) side of each branchial arch. ba, branchial artery in section, giving off the gill arteries (ga) to the adjacent sides of the gill leaflets, whence the blood is distributed in the leaflets; gv, the gill veins which run along the outer side of the gill leaflets, collecting the blood from them by minute veins and pouring it into bv, the branchial vein, which runs up the groove of the branchial arch and has the branchial artery superficial and exterior to it. The Common Frog
The two models in the top row are compounds of two decahedra each. The model in the bottom row left and right is a nonconvex octahedron, consisting of 4 squares and 4 triangles.
Grain is oblong, obtusely trigonous, or concavo-convex, red-brown and rugulose on the ventral side. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Convex Computer Corp is expected to reveal the fruits of its work with Hewlett-Packard using the PA-RISC chip early this week.
The edge of the outer lip is crenulated, and usually has a weakly convex profile when viewed from the apertural side of the shell.
The spikelets are plano-convex, orbicular to oblong, obtuse, secund, 2-ranked on the flattened or triquetrous rachis of the spike-like branches of a raceme, one-flowered and falling off entire from the very short or obscure pedicels. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Shell large, rather thin, turbinated, spu*e elevated, convex; whorls numerous, rounded on the angle, rudely nodose and sloping to the suture, which is sharply cut but irregular. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Suppose that instead of asking for a convex subset, you wanted an empty convex subset.
In this paper, they modify the CHIP method and use the modified one to solve a broader class of non-convex programming problems.
The anterior part is broadly pyriform, somewhat plastic and hyaline, with an oral extremity which is sometimes hollow, sometimes evaginated and convex. Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
So the primafacie plausible assumption that any creature able to perceive convexity would also be aware of connectedness is false.
[Footnote: The egg-and-dart is found only on the ovolo, the leaf-and-dart only on the cyma reversa or the cyma recta (concave above and convex below) Both ornaments are in origin leaf-patterns one row of leaves showing their points behind another row.] A History of Greek Art
-- N.S. (Fig. 158.) Shell subulate, porcellanous; whirls, nine or ten, slightly convex; sutural space rather wide; aperture elongated. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
Blue they were, blue of a peculiar vibrancy, and blue were the glistening threads that ran down from blue-black circular convexities set within each of the points visible to me. The Metal Monster
Bricks made this way were called plano-convex because five faces were flat and the sixth convex; each bore the imprint of a thumb on the convex face, formed as the brick was ejected from the mould. Coming of Age: 1939-1946
The ovolo has a convex profile, and is sometimes called a quarter-round; it is enriched with an EGG-AND-DART ornament The spiral roll may be conceived as a long cushion, whose ends are rolled under to form the VOLUTES. A History of Greek Art
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
It was in fact a spiral trochoid joint with a cuneiform convexity in all the simian primates except for the humans.
P. testa ovata, umbilicata; spira mediocri, acuta, ad apicem integra, cornea, viridescente aut pallide fulva; anfractibus quinque, convexis, saepe plus minusve transversim subliratis; apertura ovata; labio reflexo, umbilicum partim tegente; labro vix incrassato, peristomate nigrescente. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
The building's exterior is expressed as a complicated form of three white intersecting roughcast walls supporting a concrete convex roof.
A slight vacuum is pulled behind an aluminized mylar plastic film to create a very large convex mirror to collimate the visual system in many aircraft simulators. Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch
Wearing lower degree convex lens can reduce incidence rate of myopia in primary school students.
A group of ellipsoidal invariant sets is designed off-line, and then constitutes a terminal constraint convex set whose coefficients are taken as on-line optimization variables.
Onopordinis_, but proportionably more elongate and less convex; rostrum and thorax longer; pilosity of the body underneath much thinner and shorter; thighs thicker, more clavate, the anterior evidently costate-rugose underneath; without whitish marks on the elytra, and without that layer of light-brown earth-like pollinose transudation which is often wanting in rubbed specimens of _Larinus Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
In the second case, if the convex polygon is a pentagon incorporating all five points, then any four of these points can be connected to form a quadrilateral.
The stronger the convexity of the basic curve of the rotating body of the element, the higher the critical interlocking force.
The optical aberration difference between the biconvex Fresenl lens and the plane-convex Fresenl lens was investigated by designing a large aperture Fresenl lens.
The hinge has a central portion (50) with a convex outer surface, with the lid closed and as viewed in side elevation, that blends with a smooth curvature into outer surfaces of the lid and the base.
Grain is narrow, obovoid, biconvex, with two grooves on the anterior side and with a long embryo. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
In particular he assumed that the solids were convex, that is a straight line joining any two points always lies entirely within the solid.
Here we discuss its properties basing on the definition of the strong pseudoconvex function, and give its relationship with strong convex function.
Then, with a puffed chest and plump sides, the bombé, or convex commode, made a grand entrance.
Medium-sized, alate, subequally biconvex shells with deflected anterior margins in later growth stages.
If short-acting benzodiazepines, which are convexed by the side effects of avandia f p450 system, are painfully regreted with fluconazole, abuterol should rely consiguen to powering the atteinoin dosage, and the carbohidratos should socialize systemically monitored. Wii-volution
Wearing lower degree convex lens can reduce incidence rate of myopia in primary school students.
The base presents a concavo-convex surface, for articulation with the greater multangular; it has no facets on its sides, but on its radial side is a tubercle for the insertion of the Abductor pollicis longus. II. Osteology. 6b. 2. The Metacarpus
P. testa ovata, imperforata, solidiuscula, cornea; spira brevi, acuta, apice interdum papilloso; anfractibus quinque, convexiusculis; transversim striatis; apertura acuto-ovata; labio incrassato, spiraliter valde tortuoso; labro intus incrassato et fusco tincto, margine acuto, arcuato. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
Thallus granulose to verrucose and subareolate, sometimes inconspicuous and evanescent; apothecia minute to middle-sized, adnate or more or less immersed, exciple usually prominent and persistent, but sometimes becoming covered, disk flat to convex; hypothecium and hymenium pale to brown; spores simple, hyaline, minute, numerous in each ascus. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
These patches are frequently confused with vitiligo or leucoderma, in which the patches are usually larger and have well defined convex borders, sometimes with a rim of hyper or increased pigmentation.
Body broadly ovate, elevated and truncate posteriorly; back oblique; dorsal impression lanceolate; scutab area very slightly excavated; ambulacral spaces broad, triangular, depressed; interambulacral spaces slightly convex; anteal furrow broad and shallow, sides slightly gibbous; sub-anal impressions broadly ob-cordate; post-oral spinous space broadly lanceolate. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
With respect to the pseudoscope -- which makes the outside of a teacup appear as the inside, and the inside as the outside; which transforms convexity into concavity, and the reverse; and a sculptured face into a hollow mask; which makes the tree in your garden appear inside your room, and the branches farthest off come nearest to the eye; and which, when you look at your pictures, represents them as sunk into a deep recess in the wall, -- with respect to this instrument, its practical uses have yet to be discovered. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852
The only moulding known is the clustered torus (_torus_ = a convex moulding of semicircular profile), which resembles a bundle of reeds tied together with cords or ribbons. A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
By extending Interior Radius Vector Sweeping and combining with Boolean operations, smoothing the convex cavities in the multiply connected domain has been studied.
The superior articular surfaces of the navicular, lunate, and triangular form a smooth convex surface, the condyle, which is received into the concavity. III. Syndesmology. 1F. Radiocarpal Articulation or Wrist-joint
The transparent convex cornea contributes approximately 70% of the refractive power of the eye.
Ortiz is awarded for a remarkable stream of achievements during the period 1998-2007, encompassing physical modeling, mathematical analysis and computational technique, including in particular development of the quasi-continuum method for multiscale modeling; formulation of new incremental variational methodology for plastic deformation, with non-convex dissipation functions leading naturally to the formation of dislocation sub-structures; development of a three-dimensional, finite deformation cohesive element model for simulation of fracture and fragmentation, and associated development of symplectic integrators; IMechanica - Comments
The convex top is impressed with diamond patterning and is brazed to the body of the thimble.
Grain is oblong, obtusely trigonous, or concavo-convex, red-brown and rugulose on the ventral side. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
In this paper, they modify the CHIP method and use the modified one to solve a broader class of non-convex programming problems.
Women's bodies contain so many curves, contours, knurls, crannies, convexities, involutions and promontories that their clothing provides space-age telemetry at every square inch, constantly sending back warning signals to the brain. The Westinghouse Diet It's as easy as pulling the plug
A pad member 15 is securely attached to a concave side 13 of the convexo-concave member 11 and is made of absorbent cotton material.
Convex, flat and concave rhomboid units clad the building's distinctive dia-grid structure to produce remarkable visual effects.
The sima or gutter-facing, whose profile is here a cyma recta (concave above and convex below), is enriched with sculptured floral ornament. A History of Greek Art

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