On Barsoom the AD is the basis of linear measurement.
Thureau-Dangin, and others have discussed at length the plan of a field,(644) which has the sides of several plots given in linear measure and the areas in square measure.
Many cones are often thrown up in one eruption and in this case they take a linear direction, running generally from southeast to northwest.
The arrangement of the volcanoes in South America is of the linear type.
These earthquakes are known as linear earthquakes, since they spread almost in a single line.
The vapour tension may approximate to a linear function of the composition, and the curve will then be practically a straight line.
Evidence of such hybridization can be found in specimens taken in eastern Kansas, but the linear nature of distribution along water-courses to the west restricts gene-flow, and evident hybrids are not yet conspicuous.
Description of their Linear Arrangement and Points of Departure.
Make an incision through the skin, on the linear guide, pushing the fatty subcutaneous tissue to one side, if there be any, and with the handle of the scalpel, work through the superficial fascia.
The linear guide for the carotid is represented by a line drawn from the sterno-clavicular junction to a point between the angle of the jaw and the lobe of the ear.
Remembering the linear guide, the artery can be reached by going down at either end of the incision.
In emaciated subjects thelinear and anatomical guides are always plain but in fleshy subjects this is not always the case.
The anatomical and the linear guides for the arteries and veins, and their relation to the accompanying nerve, will help also to tell them, one from the other.
The palm of the hand should always be turned upward, and the linear guide, as stated above, will indicate the exact position of the artery.
To raise the femoral artery in its proper place, is to measure down from Poupart's ligament from one and one-half to two inches in the linear guide, and there begin the incision, making it two inches or less in length.
It is remarkable that the east wind, as it is the most persevering, is that one also which preserves the most steady horizontal and linear course.
Biot at Paris, which had been prepared at Milan some years before, under the direction of a commission of weights and measures, with the view of determining the value of the divisions of the national linear scale.
The anthers are linear oblong, nearly sessile, opposite the segments of the corolla, and a little enclosed within the tube.
Defn: An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations.
Defn: A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc.
The units of square measure are squares whose sides are the linear measures; as, square inches, square feet, square meters, etc.
Defn: Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla.
The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five- petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.
The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.
Nartheeium ossifragum) withlinear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; -- called also bog asphodel.
Physics) Defn: An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope.
Defn: A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.
If the plane figure is square, the linear figure is called a root.
From that school he acquired a knowledge of bodily structure and movement, and a searching and expressive precision of linear draughtsmanship, which he could never have learnt from his first master.
The linear plateaus of middle Pennsylvania are hybrids between the well-developed linear ridges of the mountains farther east and the irregular plateau masses farther west.
The numbers in parentheses, on page 7, refer to those individuals that were found outside of the 100 linear yards or so of outcrop comprising the principal area of concentration of specimens.
Almost all the material was recovered from approximately 100 linear yards of outcrop.
The bracts, which are some distance below the flower, have also linear segments; and the flowers droop while still in the bud, but the peduncle becomes erect as they expand.
Its leaves have from four to seven pairs of leaflets, varying in form from linear to obovate or obcordate, and have branched tendrils.
Grassy herbs, with usually solid, triangular stems; andlinear leaves, with tubular sheaths.
The leaves of this plant are linear and channelled, and the drooping flowers form a raceme of from six to twelve blooms.
The involucre bracts are linear and reflexed, and the ray florets are inconspicuous.
This species has a thick rootstock, and its leaves are either linear and undivided, or, more commonly, cut into very narrow segments.
Grassy herbs, with hollow stems; and linear leaves, with split sheaths.
Shrubs or trees with rigid evergreen, linear leaves; and resinous juices.
The sepals are spreading, oval, and pink inside; and the petals are linear and downy.
As in these latitudes, there are no outlying linear or sickle-formed reefs, rising out of unfathomable depths, I have coloured these parts of the coast red.
Some atolls have spurs projecting from them; and in the Marshall group there are atolls united together by linear reefs, for instance Menchikoff Island (See Figure 3, Plate II.
On the eastern side of the atoll some of the banks are linear and parallel, resembling islets in a great river, and pointed directly towards a great breach on the opposite side of the atoll; these are best seen in the large published chart.
Split or crack fractures were also diagnosticated by the method suggested by Hippocrates of pouring some colored fluid over the skull after the bone was exposed, when the linear fracture would show by coloration.
They were particularly anxious to detect linear fractures.
The eggs of the pond-snail "are laid in gelatinous transparent capsules, half an inch to an inch in length, flattened andlinear or oblong in outline.
Each vane is composed of many narrow linear plates, the barbs, from which rise (like miniature vanes) many barbules.
Yet while the antique appealed most to the linear schools, even in these it could strongly influence only the purelylinear part; it is strong in the drawings and weak in the paintings.
As linear art it could directly affect only that branch of painting which was itself linear; and as art of the isolated figure it was ever being contradicted by the constantly developing arts of perspective and landscape.
The coefficient of linear expansion of oak has been found to be .
Strain is measured in inches (or other linear unit).
