NOUN
- a simple machine for elevating objects; consists of plane surface that makes an acute angle with the horizontal
How To Use inclined plane In A Sentence
- The finely detailed, louvred, inclined plane presenting an alternative to the typical suburban facades. NSW Architecture Awards Announced: Gorgeous Oz-chitecture | Inhabitat
- Following each triaxial test it was noticed that the low strength specimens, grades C and D, generally sheared along one smooth inclined plane of failure.
- The purpose of the glacis, which is an inclined plane, is to expose an attacking party to the fire of the guns, which are so placed as to sweep it from the crest of the counterscarp to the edge of the beach. Fort Moultrie
- For then, an inclined plane of unfortunate infants would be handed over to the prosiest and worst of all the teachers with good intentions, whom nobody older would endure. Our Mutual Friend
- They turned back to the business of the climb, scrambling over jackstraw falls of rock and crouch-walking up inclined planes of stone shot with glitters of quartz and mica. The Gunslinger
- an inclined plane
- The set-up consists of a large hopper of sand placed above a rough inclined plane.
- But in life — as we have elsewhere seen — this inclined plane is angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent mass of the junk and sperm. Moby Dick; or the Whale
- A tin pannikin rolled down the inclined plane, rattling and banging. The Lost Poacher
- Where there exists an introsusception of the bowel in children, could the patient be held up for a time by the feet with his head downwards, or be laid with his body on an inclined plane with his head downwards, and crude mercury be injected as a clyster to the quantity of two or three pounds? Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
