Waves of all sizes impinge upon them, and at every collision a portion of the impinging wave is struck off.
When this occurs suddenly, the odontoid process may impinge on the medulla and upper part of the cord and cause sudden death.
In other cases the four broken ends impinge upon the interosseous space, and may become united to one another, preventing the movements of pronation and supination.
In a total solar eclipse, the time which elapses from the moment when the moon's disc first begins toimpinge upon that of the sun at his western edge until the eclipse becomes total, lasts about an hour.
At length, in its turn, the track of totality begins toimpinge upon the earth.
Should it impinge on other parts of the body, as in the instance of a man lying on the ground, it may cause mortal injury to internal organs, and that without exhibiting external evidence of the amount of injury it has inflicted.
The sharp edges, less velocity, and oblique direction in which the fragments usually impinge sufficiently explain this difference.
When external bodies determine the fluid parts of the human body, so that they often impingeon the softer parts, they change the surface of the last named (Post.
When the fluid part of the human body is determined by an external body to impinge often on another soft part, it changes the surface of the latter, and, as it were, leaves the impression thereupon of the external body which impels it.
The terminals of these groups of batteries are connected respectively to the four rollers which impinge upon the transmitting drum, the negatives being connected to 5 and 7, and the positives to 6 and 8, as denoted by the letters N and P.
Instead of the two small contact wheels, however, a projecting arm carried an iron pin or stylus, so arranged that its point would normally impinge upon the periphery of the drum.
In the Sahara itself, when the sun's rays cease to impinge on the burning soil, the temperature runs rapidly down to freezing, because there is no vapour overhead to check the calorific drain.
But suppose the waves generated by one system of molecules to impinge upon another system, how will the waves be affected?
Hence, in one way or other, the transparency of our gases and vapours depends upon the periods of the waves which impinge upon them.
Waves of all sizes impinge upon the particles, and you see at every collision a portion of the impinging wave struck off; all the waves of the spectrum, from the extreme red to the extreme violet, being thus acted upon.
When they impingeupon a metal refractory enough to bear their shock without fusion, they can raise it to a heat so white and luminous as to yield, when analysed, all the colours of the spectrum.
A sound proceeding vertically does not cross the streams, nor impinge upon the reflecting surfaces, as does a sound proceeding horizontally across them.
It some such fashion the periodic strokes of the smaller ether waves accumulate, till the atoms on which their timed impulses impinge are jerked asunder, and what we call chemical decomposition ensues.
The Rights of War can never impinge upon any rights under the Constitution, nor can any rights under the Constitution impinge upon the Rights of War.
An Italian publicist has said that there is no right which does not, in some measure, impinge upon some other right.
The catheter is pushed backwards until it is felt to impinge against the posterior wall of the naso-pharynx.
The lower punctum is dilated and the probe passed parallel to the lid margin until it is felt to impinge upon the lachrymal bone.
For the material element in the individual soul is fused in individual consciousness; and therefore the spiritual medium which surrounds the individual soul cannot impinge upon or penetrate the soul which it surrounds.
They communicate with one another by means of this medium; but the integrity of the medium which unites them does not impinge at any point upon their integrity.
And again he came very near to her, so that his blue-serge waistcoat seemed, to impinge on her, and his purplish red face was above her.
Sir,' he said, 'whatever my sentiments tanquam privatus may be in such matters, I shall not tamely endure your saying anything that may impinge upon the honourable feelings of a gentleman under my roof.
If the body's immune system can stop the growth of the cancers and begin to turn them back before the cancer cells impinge catastrophically on some vital function, the person can usually survive.
The thoughts and emotions of the spirit impinge on a body as powerfully or more powerfully than all the vitamins, dietary reform or protomorphogens I can provide.
A general consequence of this is that wherever moisture-laden winds from the sea impinge upon a continent they lay down a considerable part of the water which they contain.
As soon as a beam of either daylight or the oxy-hydrogen light is, by raising the shutter, permitted to impinge upon the plate, the needles are deflected.
The danger of this situation is immensely increased by the fact that all these hostile nations impinge territorially on one another, and modern warfare gives an enormous advantage to the nation gaining the initial success.
And yet we are always tempted to wrench the two apart, and to think that the operation of the one must sometimes, at all events on the outermost circumference of the spheres, impinge upon, and collide with, the operations of the other.
There are other tints and flashes of glory sleeping in the jewel which need the rays of light to impinge upon it at other angles, in order to wake them into scintillation and lustre.
The octagon is carried up to the base of the dome, which is built in sixteen longitudinal compartments that impinge upon one another and form groins giving to the dome its strength and sweep.
The drum of the dome is pierced by twenty semicircular-headed windows (of which only five are now open), and as their arches and the dome spring at about the same level the heads of the windows impinge upon the dome's surface.
For I find this black mark impinge the man, That he believes in just the vile of life.
When sunshine shall impinge on just that grain's facette Which fronts him fullest, first, returns his ray with jet Of promptest praise, thanks God best in creation's name!
