At each gun emplacement, Rimov, his guards and Scarf watched Brad and Kumiko inspect sector guides, range and directional interlocks and power drives.
As Brad expected, the fire control center consisted of dozens of consoles, scopes, directional and power control devices, and clusters of computer terminals.
He turned on the receiver and pointed the directional antenna.
He stepped up the power, and swung his directional loops forth and back, although mostly he aimed them directly toward the Carveria system's known coordinates.
As they neared the point in their trajectory that brought them to the Earthward side of Planet Three, Jon began tuning his receiver and turning his directional antenna-loops, so he could pick up the continuous message of their sender.
Turning to Rovol, he went on: "I understand that you require a particularly precise directional mechanism?
But the directional diverter diverts only in certain patterns, so that it might be possible to figure out.
But he said, "I want you to switch off your planetary directional diverter.
On the cross hairs of his directionalsights the ghostly ship hung, and Danny threw his own red rocket like a living flame over and down where the white one sensed his coming and waited.
He could see only the white ship, doubly hideous because of its seeming purity; and, as before, he brought the cross hairs of directional sights upon it while he opened the rocket exhaust to the full.
The model is provided with a keel (below the centre of gravity), and rudder for steering; in fact, this machine especially claims certainty of directional control.
Directional control," that the model is launched in some specified direction, and must pass as near as possible over some indicated point.
Directional control is the most difficult problem to overcome with any degree of success under all adverse conditions, and 15 per cent.
Of course we will depend on directional radio disturbance locating devices to determine the direction for the invisibility disrupter ray.
Each ship, both speedster and mother craft, was equipped with an invisibility locator, a sensitive short-wave directional receiver, that would permit the operator to direct his rays at invisible targets.
When a continuous motion of the driver produces a continuous motion of the follower, forward or backward, and a reciprocating motion a motion reciprocating at the same instant, the directional relation is said to be constant.
When a continuous motion produces a reciprocating motion, or vice versa, or when a reciprocating motion produces a motion not reciprocating at the same instant, the directional relation is said to be variable.
Exactly the same process, of course, is used for radio directional signals, one of which still buzzed monotonously in Bell's ears until he impatiently turned it off.
Suddenly Jimmy heard a sharp signal, sounding above the dull buzz of the directional beacon.
Suddenly, above the steady buzz of the directional beacon came the sharp signal of the Bellefonte marker beacon.
Did space permit it would be possible to adduce a long list of directional arcs coinciding with the time and nature of all the more important epochs in Mr. Chamberlain's career.
The working out of the more important directional arcs for the same period I can safely leave to the reader whose desire to thoroughly test the claims of Astrology has been sufficiently aroused by the perusal of these pages.
The Navaho sometimes vary the assignment of their directional colors by relating, like the Apache of Arizona, black to the east and white to the north.
In three nights of observation at Lawrence, Kansas, marked by very high densities, the directional trend was north by north-northeast with a variation of less than 8 deg.
Studies of data from some of these stations disclose directional patterns that vary from night to night only slightly more than does the flight at Tampico.
As a consequence of my studies in Yucatan of nocturnal flight densities and theirdirectional trends, I strongly believe that migrants reach Texas from this second source.
Here the coast parallels the directional trend of the migratory movement for more than 600 miles.
A striking correlation exists between air currents and the directional flight trends of birds, suggesting that most night migrants travel by a system of pressure-pattern flying.
Much of the directional spread exhibited by sector densities undoubtedly has no basis in reality but results from inaccuracies in cooerdinate readings and from practical difficulties inherent in the method of computation.
At Oak Grove, Louisiana, the flight exhibited a strong directional trend with no significant aberrant components.
From the directional spread at these stations it becomes apparent that if most of the birds were traveling along a certain topographic feature on one night, they could not have been traveling along the same feature on other nights.
In Figure 33 I have shown the directional patterns at certain stations where, unlike the cases noted above, there is considerable change on successive nights.
The Directional Element in Sampling In seeking this end, we must immediately reject the simple logic of sampling that may be applied to density studies of animals on land.
Since bird migration exhibits strong directional tendencies, I have come to the conclusion that no sampling procedure that can be applied to it is sufficiently reliable short of handling each directional trend separately.
Although I do not believe that bats are the real reason for the diverse directional patterns at Rosedale, I can offer no alternative explanation consistent with data from other stations.
Directional components in the flight at Tampico on three nights in 1948.
The results show the directional spread at each station.
In analysis it provides a means of comparing directional trends at the same station and of studying variation in directional fanning.
Microwave radio relay - transmission of long distance telephone calls and television programs by highly directional radio microwaves that are received and sent on from one booster station to another on an optical path.
The first Nieuport had a good start, but the pilot was new to the game, and failed to see the white puffs from directional shots fired by the nearest A.
But practice and cooeperation with anti-aircraft gunners, by means of directional shots, enabled us to find the black-crossed trespassers often enough to inoculate them with a wholesome fear of venturing any distance beyond the lines.
Then your directional audio pick-ups should be able to tell you where this voice is coming from.
A directional beam microphone could have picked up every word at our table.
The pilot is then under the necessity of watching three instruments and manipulating his three controls to keep the instruments indicating longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability.
In order to secure directional stability, the surface is, in the centre, arranged to dip down in the form of a V, pointing towards the direction of motion.
Such a condition will cause the aeroplane to lose its directional stability and also to fly one wing down.
And turning to Directional Stability, she politely asked him what he preferred to do.
The success of the entire venture depends upon your causing the raider no alarm, keeping your directional finder signal going out over the air all the time .
You, through ways you know best, inform the commander of each Fleet unit tonight that they are to keep their sets open for that directional finder signal and to act the instant they hear it and plot our position.
For your information when your radio is set at that reading it will be in constant contact with special directional finder apparatus aboard certain British naval craft in surrounding waters.
The raider's set will be open and although it will not be able to hear your directional finder signal it will pick up anything else.
When von Khole wasn't looking I simply slipped my hand down and tuned the set to the directional finder wave length.
Matter of fact, I was thinking about that directional finder gadget," the English youth replied as he stared at the radio.
There's a second radio on every Catalina, so why don't we tune it to the directional finder wave-length the instant we spot the raider.
Centrifugal forces modify or reverse the directional vector of gravity.
The directional growth of plant shoots and plant roots is probably due to this sedimentation phenomenon, particularly the effect on movement of auxins ([ref.
By rotating a plant so that the force of gravity is distributed evenly over all possible directions, the directional effects of gravity are eliminated, simulating some aspects of the zero-g state.
Ken lay full-length in the padded body compartment, his feet resting on the controlling bars of the directional planes, hands on the torpoon's engine levers.
The tapered stern bore long directional rudders, which curved round the squat high-speed propeller: its smooth flanks of burnished steel were marked only by the lines of the entrance port, which the torpooner now drew tight and locked.
Troy and Alec pushed diagonally up the snow slope, pausing every few minutes to take new directional readings.
He fumbled with mittened fist at the cover of the directional radiation compass strapped to his left wrist.
Directional fixes said absolutely that they did not come from Mars or Jupiter or Saturn.
When its calls were answered it changed the broadcast, adding a directional signal.
The directional receiver pointed to it had long since been turned down to its lowest possible volume, and still the beepings were loud.
The continuous beepings between repetitions of the second message were plainly a directional signal to be followed to the message source.
They were remarkably like the directional signals of an airway beacon.
The beepings could not be anything but a guide, a directional indicator, to be followed to M-387.
The most valuable means of airship navigation will be that of directional wireless.
If the bearings of two distinct wireless stations can be taken, it is also possible to find his definite position by means of directional wireless telegraphy.
With the very close tuning rendered possible by the use of continuous waves, beacon stations of the future will probably be provided with automatic means whereby directional signals can be sent out at intervals of one hour or less.
Then, the Hans quite obviously have learned that we are picking up their electrophone waves, for they've gone back to their old, but extremely accurate, system of directional control.
Even if we used the directional projector, they might have scouts out to the west and south in the big inter-gang stretches of country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "directional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
