The needle and quadrants are of small size, and the electrostatic capacity is correspondingly small.
If the twoquadrants are at different potentials, the needle moves from one quadrant towards the other, and the image of a spot of light on the scale is therefore displaced.
If the quadrants were near together there were certain limits between which the potential of the needle might vary without producing more than a small change in the deflection corresponding with the fixed potential difference of the quadrants.
These quadrants are insulated from the needle and from the case, and the two pairs are connected to two electrodes.
It passes between two rubbers made of leather, and is partly covered with two silk aprons which extend over quadrants of its surface.
The opposite quadrants are connected together by thin platinum wires.
While this transaction had been going on, Jim had carried the boxes containing the chronometers and quadrants to his comrades.
Each quadrant of the column has apparently the power of producing, in a definite zone nearer the aboral pole than the mouth, a single bud; but the buds of the different quadrants are not produced simultaneously.
Swastikas (two right and two left) on quadrants of chariot wheels.
Swastikas, two right and two left, on quadrants of chariot wheels.
More than L1000, a large sum for those days, was spent under his direction, the principal purchases being two quadrants for observation of the position of the stars, one to the north and the other to the south.
The mariners of that part, namely the Moors, do not guide themselves by the Pole in navigating this gulf, but trust to quadrants of wood.
He, moreover, stated that in those seas they navigate without compasses, but with the aid of quadrants of wood.
The façade has a semicircular termination, quadrants above the aisles, and an early Renaissance doorway.
Quadrants and sextants were the invention of a much later period.
This street is the finest in Goa, and is called Strada Diretta from the singular fact that almost all the streets in Goa are quadrants or segments of circles.
By these two annular constrictions four egg-shaped or kidney-shaped chambers become imperfectly separated, which correspond to the quadrants of the lateral plane.
All rings of the disk concentric, of nearly equal breadth, divided into four quadrants by two perradial constrictions (perpendicular one to another).
The side of the box marked A C E E, is made to let down and form a table I J, hung on hinges P P, and supported by the quadrants Q Q, one inch below the level of the bottom board.
K is a piece of wire gauze completely covering the opening in Q; T is an insulated piece of wire gauze nearly but not quite filling the opening in the plate P, and connected with one pair of quadrants of an electrometer E.
Davis quadrants signed by Hagger are in the Comstock Memorial Collection of the Rhode Island Historical Society (dated 1776); in the Shepley Library in Providence, R.
In 1766 Benjamin King was importing, making, and selling quadrants and other instruments "At the Sign of the Mathematical Instruments" next to the Golden Eagle on Thames Street.
Benjamin specialized in producing nautical instruments, and several of his Davis quadrants have survived in public collections.
Folger also producedquadrants and compasses, and made astronomical observations.
He closed his eyes and tried to visualize the charts and space quadrants he had heard mentioned.
All ships are to institute an immediate search of quadrants one through seven for the Space Knight and arrest any and all persons aboard.
He knew the quadrants by heart, and knew that he was close to the asteroid belt.
Attention all Solar Guard units in space quadrants one through seven--repeat, all ships in quadrants one through seven.
Let the terminus of the quadrants on the limb be near the centre of a quadrant described on the block, also divided into 90 degrees.
Describe the circumference of a circle and let it be divided into quadrants by two diameters intersecting each other at right angles at its centre.
Squadrons A and B of the Marsopolis garrison will proceed to space quadrants W, sections forty-one to fifty.
This audiocast has been beamed to space quadrants D through K, as a courtesy to the army of uranium prospectors working the asteroid belt.
We've searched space quadrants A through D, sections twenty-one through one hundred thirty-eight.
All ships in quadrants C through M and Q through B-l!
It is to be remembered that the quadrants thus indicated are measured either way from the point and feather of the diametral arrows.
The same issue has the advertisement of "William Walker in Merchants Row, near the Swing Bridge," who had quadrants for sale.
The early Hadley quadrants were huge affairs made of wood with an arm twenty-four inches in length.
The Davis quadrants are usually made of ebony, rosewood, or other dark woods, with boxwood scale arcs and could be made by expert wood-workers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quadrants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
