How To Use Frangibility In A Sentence
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I think the term for payment being divisible into small particles is ‘frangibility’.
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I love everything about it: its translucency, its frangibility, its ragged edges, its bruises and discolorations.
Trying to Keep Parallel Narratives on the Rails
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If we hold with Professor Allman that thought, will, and conscience, though only manifesting themselves through the medium of cerebral protoplasm, are not its properties any more than the invisible earth elements which lie beyond the violet are the property of the medium which, by altering their refrangibility, makes them its own -- then the study of the exact nature and properties of the transmitting medium is equally necessary.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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But Sir Isaac has shown that dioptric telescopes cannot be brought to a greater perfection, because of that refraction, and of that very refrangibility, which at the same time that they bring objects nearer to us, scatter too much the elementary rays.
Letter XVI-On Sir Isaac Newton’s Optics
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Dogs and young horses, with those which have become sufficiently aged for their bones to have acquired an enhanced degree of frangibility, are more liable than those which have not exceeded the time of their prime.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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Four years at one school give opportunities which are illimitable, but the present writer knew neither of them in the bread-and-butter period, and was properly reproved by the one and snubbed by the other when, in the supposed superiority of his years and co-extensive views on the frangibility of feminine friendship, he had sought to raise the veil of the past and peer into the archives of those school-days.
Marion's Faith.
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According to rigid Newtonians, air is transparent, or, rather, invisible; and the azure colour of the atmosphere arises from the greater refrangibility of the blue rays of light.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832
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The history of rachitis, of melanosis, and of osteoporosis, as related to an abnormal frangibility of the bones, is a part of our common medical knowledge.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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The principal experiments also indicate that it is the rays of highest refrangibility -- the blue-violet and ultra-violet rays of the spectrum -- which bring about the destruction of the organisms (figs. 17, 18).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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Technical criteria of interest for this application include density, frangibility, and barrel wear.
Alternatives for significant uses of lead in Massachusetts
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However, the two underlying fundamental principles that are essential for good design are either frangibility or non-penetration with controlled redirection.
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Undersökningar, _ presented to the Stockholm Academy in 1853, he not only pointed out that the electric spark yields two superposed spectra, one from the metal of the electrode and the other from the gas in which it passes, but deduced from Euler's theory of resonance that an incandescent gas emits luminous rays of the same refrangibility as those which it can absorb.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Longfeng Marsh locate in the city zone, ecosystem frangibility, should strengthen protect.
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It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end.
The Judge
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The presence or absence of spores; when present, spores show their typical refrangibility exceedingly well by this method.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
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The history of rachitis, of melanosis, and of osteoporosis, as related to an abnormal frangibility of the bones, is a part of our common medical knowledge.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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And a negative correlativity between frangibility and ego resilience, crisis coping method, and social support.
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Doppler's principle, by which light alters in refrangibility through the end-on motion of its source, was first made effective for astronomical reseach by 1868.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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When the angle of incidence is increased, the band moves in the direction of increasing refrangibility, and at the same time increases rapidly in width.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
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To understand the magnificence of the wonderful structure, the reader must have in mind the laws affecting light in transmission through water -- the frangibility of the rays, the frequent alternations in dispersion, reflection, interference and accidental and complementary color.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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Whatever the cause, his brain had a rift of ruin in it, from the start, and though his delicate touch often stole a new grace from classic antiquity, it was the frangibility, the quick decay, the fall of all lovely and noble things, that excited and engaged him.
A Study Of Hawthorne
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Neither when I spoke of red, or blue, and green, as well as refrangibility, had I these several colors, or the rays of light passing into a different medium, and there diverted from their course, painted before me in the way of images.
On the Sublime and Beautiful
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[Shown.] (2) As the angle of incidence is increased, the reflected light becomes brighter and rises in refrangibility.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
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Newton sets forth his classic experiments showing that light is a heterogeneous mixture of rays of different refrangibility, and that rays of different refrangibility differ also in color.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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There are two advantages to frangibility in varmint bullets.
Gun Geezer Makes Muscatel* Mist
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There are two advantages to frangibility in varmint bullets.
Gun Geezer Makes Muscatel* Mist