Ellipses in A Sentence

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    As a result of this theory, in the case of a retaining wall supporting a vertical face of earth beneath an extended horizontal plane level with the top of the wall, we get p _ wx 2 1 - sin ii 2 I +sin P' [[Reservoir Empty Reservoir Full Ellipses Of Vertical Pressures On Horizontal Joints]].

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    Fish farms are represented by the filled rectangular block, with the areas of impacted seabed denoted by the filled ellipses.

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    Hence the locus of J relative to AB, and the locus relative to CD are equal ellipses of which A, B and C, D are respectively the foci.

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    If the whole globe were covered with a uniformly deep ocean, and if there were no difference of density between one part and another, the surface would form a perfect ellipsoid of revolution, that is to say, all the meridians would be exactly equal ellipses and all parallels perfect circles.

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    Most of the orbits are remarkably eccentric ellipses, the average eccentricity being about 0.5.

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    The number of irregular ellipses or circles made within a given time differs much with different species.

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    These store the image as a set of graphic primitives; shapes such as lines, ellipses, rectangles and polygons.

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    Three test points are shown with their uncertainty ellipses.

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    We receive, therefore, in no single intercepting plane behind the system, as, for example, a focussing screen, an image of the object point; on the other hand, in each of two planes lines 0' and 0" are separately formed (in neighbouring planes ellipses are formed), and in a plane between 0' and 0" a circle of least confusion.