curvilinear

How To Use curvilinear In A Sentence

• Lichenometric dating curves are curvilinear, and so the older the age estimate the less accurate it is likely to be.
• The eastern window of five lights is a singular combination of tracery with tabernacle work, while the easternmost bay on the south side, which is partly obscured by the vestry, has an exquisite window above, consisting of a richly traceried arch placed within a curvilinear triangle, beneath which is a splendid range of niches, and, beneath them again, a gorgeous range of sedilia and piscinae." [ Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey
• The Grade ll listed glass pavilions at the gardens are one of the earliest examples of curvilinear glasshouses ever built.
• This circularity is echoed and enhanced by the razor-sharp curvilinear forms of apsidal niches, rounded arches, semicircular columns, Ionic volutes, decorative ovals, and turned balusters and kraters.
• The photolabeling of the AdoMet-binding sites displayed homotropic negative cooperativity, characterized by a curvilinear Scatchard plot with upward concavity.
• The project made use of PC to perfect the curvilinear motion of motor.
• Consulting the information cards at the far side of the display she read: `Exhibit 4: A curvilinear brooch of native silver, Celtic. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
• The strigillation, or curvilinear fluting, of the frieze immediately below the Pantheon-domed roof is a type of enrichment associated with classical sarcophagi.
• The drawing technique of shared radii can be used to construct a variety of curvilinear shapes.
• Remarkable was the purity of the port de bras, an art lost, indeed killed, in the U.S.: a clean, highly controlled curvilinear frame for the ladies' pretty heads, and an ergonomic support to the men's beautifully natural leaps powered by exceptional ballon, or "ballet bounce. Debra Levine: Cubans Cruise Into L.A. With Classic Don Quixote