Search results for "Concave" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and of relative motion. He was the first to use concave lenses to correct myopia, and conducted the first modern formal biology experiment, concluding ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- arched on the aboral side (dorsal) and flat or concave on the oral side (ventral). Common colors include black and dull shades of green, olive, brown ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 17:33, 25 January 2023
- of rainbow as an image, which forms at a concave mirror. If the rays of light coming from a farther light source reflect to any point on axis ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:20, 16 April 2023
- such as high and low, up and down, convex and concave, light and shadow, movement and tranquility, dynamic and static, as a manifestation of the yin ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- the images formed in plane and spherical concave mirrors. All of these works follow the basic logical structure of the Elements, containing definitions ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- would be exerted by the Moon on the lower concave surface of the lunar orb ... the stars highest, but the spheres were concave upwards, centered on God ...58 KB (9,037 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- * String mires: Flat or concave peatlands with a string-like pattern of hummocks (hence the name), found principally in northern Scandinavia ...19 KB (2,935 words) - 17:10, 26 March 2023
- they are long. The slipface is on the dune's concave side. These dunes form under winds that blow from one direction, and they also are known as ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- symbols for silver is a crescent moon with the concave part on the left (see diagram on the left). The metal mercury was once thought of as a ...20 KB (2,849 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- optics; that is they used a convex objective and a concave eyepiece lens. The Galilean design has the advantage of presenting an erect image but has ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 17:52, 31 October 2023
- family, to be illustrated by downward concave curve, i.e. such that rises up quickly from the origin—0-point on the intersection of the horizontal ...21 KB (3,117 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- for the east front of the Louvre; his adventurous concave-convex facades were discarded in favor of the more stern and classic proposals of native Claude ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 18:55, 21 May 2024
- went from being biconcave to having a concave front and a convex back in the modern forms. This made the vertebral column more flexible and strong ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- cairns and those with stone chambers have concave forecourts which are reminiscent of those that had been built earlier of wood (Haddenham and ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- unique among petroglyphs. They consist of a concave depression, no more than a few centimeters across, pecked into a rock surface and often surrounded ...25 KB (3,776 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- images are nearly inexhaustible: anything hollow, concave or containing, such as bodies of water, the earth itself, caves, dwellings, and vessels of ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- *Profile — convex slopes are statistically more dangerous than concave. The reasons lie partly in human behaviour, and the tensile strength ...28 KB (4,333 words) - 07:09, 23 August 2023
- making lenses, with surfaces that are convex, concave, planar, or a combination of these types. Depending on its shape, a lens can concentrate or diverge ...28 KB (4,417 words) - 17:34, 23 May 2024
- use of solar power, by employing concave mirrors to heat water. While most of Leonardo's inventions were not built during his lifetime, ...29 KB (4,455 words) - 08:02, 6 March 2023
- small bronze cauldrons, one globular and one concave-sided, a 'crested' and masked helmet, wrapped in cloths, a set of spears, tips uppermost ...29 KB (4,604 words) - 00:30, 27 February 2023
