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Example sentences for "horizontal axis"

  • At Paris the morocco leather is tanned by agitation with a decoction of sumach in large casks made to revolve upon a horizontal axis, like a barrel churn.

  • Defn: A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis.

  • The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

  • Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis.

  • A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis.

  • To record the variations of the vertical component use is made of a magnet mounted on knife edges so that it can turn freely about a horizontal axis at right angles to its length (H.

  • This mirror can rotate about a horizontal axis which is at right angles to the line of collimation of the telescope, and is parallel to the surface of the mirror.

  • The recording surface is a sheet of photographic paper wrapped round a drum which is rotated at a constant speed by clockwork about a horizontal axis.

  • As a first example, suppose we have a flywheel free to rotate about a horizontal axis, and that a weight m hangs by a vertical string from the circumferences of an axle of radius b (fig.

  • AO represents an upright axis or spindle; B a weight called a bob, suspended by rod OB from a horizontal axis at O, carried by the vertical axis.

  • I should hit it there with a racket whose face was practically vertical, but I should hit it an upward, forwardly glancing blow which would impart, as Professor Thomson expresses it, "spin about a horizontal axis to the ball.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horizontal axis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after marriage; been here; different localities; early youth; figuratively speaking; general literature; horizontal axis; horizontal beds; horizontal branch; horizontal direction; horizontal line; horizontal lines; horizontal plane; horizontal position; horizontal section; horizontal strata; intellectual activity; long known; merry laugh; nursery governess; pointing hand; protective tariff; receive power; right honorable; takes occasion; whom said