When the charge impinges over one of the large cavities of the body, the shot may scatter widely through the contained viscera, and there is often no exit wound.
The passage of a sound into the bladder or vagina is a procedure of some diagnostic value, as if its point impinges directly against the sacrum it may be presumed that no rectum exists.
The water leaves the disk with the more or less considerable velocity vo, and impinges on a mass flowing to the discharge pipe at the much slower velocity vs.
When a stream of fluid in steady motion impinges on a solid surface, it presses on the surface with a force equal and opposite to that by which the velocity and direction of motion of the fluid are changed.
When a jet of water impinges on a curved surface in such a direction that it is received without shock, the pressure on the surface is due to its gradual deviation from its first direction.
Distribution of Pressure on a Surface on which a Jet impinges normally.
During Impact the Velocity of the Fluid relatively to the Surface on which it impinges remains unchanged in Magnitude.
Suppose a jet of waterimpinges on a surface ac with a velocity ab, and let it be wholly deviated in planes parallel to the figure.
If the lip of the vane at A is tangential to AE, the water will not have its direction suddenly changed when it impinges on the vane, and will therefore have no tendency to spread laterally.
A Jet impingeson a plane surface at rest, in a direction normal to the plane (fig.
In Verhaeren's poetry the lyric exceeds the bounds of its domain and impinges on the dramatic and the epic.
The other is that the effect which the impact of a body in motion produces upon the body on which it impinges depends, other things being alike, on the relation of a certain quality of each which is called 'mass.
But all the while it is the discipline which impinges on the sensibilities of this common mass that shapes the spiritual attitude and temper of the community and so defines what may and what may not be undertaken by the constituted leaders.
The fire box or combustion chamber being taper increases the effectiveness of its sides as heating surface, since the heat in its vertical passage impinges against it.
The efficiency of the heating surface in this class of boiler is increased from the fact that, as the heat does not pass direct through the boiler, it impinges against the surface.
Indeed that which is thought impinges on our consciousness only in case it descends to us, and is felt.
To reach Him, take as guide the divinest and highest part of the Soul, the power from which she proceeds, and by which she impinges on the intelligible world.
For ninety miles below Attock the river is confined between bare and broken hills, till it finally emerges into the plains from the gorge above Kálabágh, where the Salt Range impinges on the left bank.
Finally in the north-east corner of Kashmír the frontier impinges on the great Central Asian axis of the Kuenlun.
The catheter is then pushed directly upwards until its stem impinges against the soft palate.
In all these procedures care must be taken that the instrument does not burst suddenly through the front wall with such force that it impinges on and damages the posterior wall.
A canula is then inserted in a sloping direction inwards and upwards diagonally across the plane of the middle turbinal until it impinges on the nasal surface of the sphenoid, in the neighbourhood of the ostium (Fig.
The catheter is turned to the opposite side so that its beak impinges against the posterior border of the septum.
If a coloured object impinges on one part of the retina, the remaining portion at the same moment has a tendency to produce the compensatory colour.
As shown especially in figure 21, this sheath impinges dorsally and laterally against the axial lobe and thus furnishes a special protection for the soft organs beneath, probably protecting them from the strain of the dorsal muscles.
It originates in a small oval mound whose posterior margin impinges upon the third glabellar furrow near the middle of its course, and just outside the outer end of the second glabellar furrow.
The cut represents the Vibrator, in which the force impinges at right angles with the surface of the body, sending waves of motion through its substance.
In this condition they are capable of being ignited, and as soon as the flame impinges on the lime cylinder a most intense light results.
It may be advisable to mention here that tubular boilers are those in which the water circulates in the tubes, and the fire impinges on the outer surface.
As soon as the force of the emission jet can be applied as a factor in giving motive power, the fact that no close-fitting parts are required for the places upon which the line of force impinges will alter the conditions of the whole problem.
The next day, after being delayed for some hours by bad weather, they turned towards Castle Rock and proceeded across the disturbed area where the Barrier impinges upon the land.
To turn; a form of water wheel and steam engine, where the fluid impinges against the blades arranged around the perimeter of the wheel.
But the light is here due to the fact that when it impinges upon the solid body, the vibrations excited in that body by the flame are of periods different from its own.
When this flame impinges on a piece of lime, we have the dazzling Drummond light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impinges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
