The long lines are 10 degrees apart, the smallest divisions shown being 5 degrees apart.
Divide each quarter into nine equal parts with a pair of dividers; these will be for the long lines, 10 degrees apart.
These Albatross engines had their cylinders arranged in two groups of three, with each group of three pistons operating on one of two crank pins, each 180 degrees apart.
Automatic inlet valves were fitted, and the exhaust valves were operated by a cam which had two points, 180 degrees apart; the cam was rotated in the opposite direction to the engine at one-quarter engine speed.
The final development of this three-cylinder radial was the 'Y' type of engine, in which the cylinders were regularly disposed at 120 degrees apart, the bore was 4.
Vee engines have been devised having the cylinders spaced but 45 degrees apart, but the explosions cannot be timed at equal intervals as when 90 degrees separate the cylinder center lines.
This has two throws and the crank-pins are spaced 180 degrees apart.
For this reason, the cylinders of a twelve are usually separated by 60 degrees while the eight has the blocks spaced 90 degrees apart.
A planet is TRINE [Symbol: triangle] to another when they are one-third of the way around the Zodiac from each other, or 120 degrees apart.
To reduce the explanation to its simplest form we will suppose that a wheel has four spokes spaced equidistantly, that is, 90 degrees apart, and that the wheel is moving from right to left.
As the spokes are set 90 degrees apart, the half-way point will be 45 degrees.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "degrees apart" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
