The rudder must constantly be turned to keep the ship on its course, and this acts as a drag on the progress of the ship, slowing it down and wasting the power of the engine.
Furthermore, it is desirable to vary the speed of the vessel and even to reverse it without slowing down the turbine engine.
The Earth Slowing down The answer is simple, but startling.
The tides are slowing down the earth, and they are also driving the moon farther and farther away.
It is the rotation of the earth which supplies the energy of the tides, and, as a consequence, the tides must be slowing down the earth.
The effect which the tides have on slowing down the rotation of the earth is explained in the text.
The day also became longer, because the earth was slowing down, taking longer to rotate on its axis, but the month increased at a greater rate than the day.
The moon makes the day equal to the month, but the sun has a tendency, by still further slowing down the earth's rotation on its axis, to make the day equal to the year.
Since the earth is slowing down, it follows that it was once rotating faster.
Farrow whipped into the side road and we tore along with only a slight slowing of our headlong speed.
We went like hell; without slowing a bit we sort of swooped up to St. Louis and took a fast dive into that big blob-shaped dead area.
With business slowing down, we resumed our old practice of renting doubles as singles whenever it was necessary.
But hard or soft, rock or mud, the men drove forward, galloping where they could, cantering where they could not gallop, and hardly slowing to a less pace than a trot.
They were passing along a valley with steep-sided hills on either hand and fairly level going along the floor of the valley, but instead of getting winded and slowing down as Scottie had expected, their pace increased.
The economy has presented a picture of moderate but slowing growth against a background of underlying weaknesses in technology and worker motivation.
Slowing the engine, they moved on cautiously while the water gradually got shallower, until glistening banks of mud began to break the surface.
He imagined that Jake's motive for slowing down might be misunderstood by the señoritas' guardian, since a touch of Moorish influence still colors the Spaniard's care of his women.
They had been slowing down for several days, since their speed with the added hyperdrive had been increased greatly.
Suddenly there was the sound of a motor slowing down somewhere inside the great ship.
A peculiar effect arising from tidal action is believed by students of the phenomena to be found in the slowing of the earth's rotation on its axis.
The later formed of these openings are the smaller, as would be the case in such a slowing down of a boiling process.
Well, ain't you the sassy kid," says he and then the train slowing up for a station he walked on up the aisle.
As a result, in 1992, economic policy focused on slowingthe growth rate of inflation and reducing the deficit.
Our car keptslowing down very easy sort of, as if there was nothing pulling it or holding it back either.
By now the car was slowing down and pretty soon it stopped right in front of a big dark thing--a kind of a building.
I guess it must have been getting over the ground at about sixty per, when it began slowing down and stopped about a dozen yards from our car.
We're slowing down and there isn't any knocking of the cars against each other.
Then, after a few seconds the car began slowing down.
Then, at last we were slowing down within close touch of as strange a seaside place as could be in the world.
But the same result is equally well obtained by slowing the vessel, and this is easily accomplished by a cable, with a small anchor or other weight attached, dragging below the vessel.
Now the nose tube was blasting, slowing the cruiser down.
He collected the data on the fly, slowing down now and then to read something, until a yell from Santos or Koa warned that the sun line was creeping close.
Without slowing he took two bottles from his belt, turned them so the openings were to his rear, and squeezed the release valves.
The symptoms of muscarin poisoning, apart from vomiting and purging, are slowing of the pulse, cerebral disturbance, contraction of the pupils, salivation and sweating.
Contraction of the pupils changes to dilation, andslowing of the pulse may disappear.
Teddy shot out as if for a sprint, slowing immediately, however, when he had taken his place.
His easy wins had taught a fatal fault of slowingat the finish.
Just to show you the force of my fall, sir, I struck a timber about thirty feet before I landed; it was eight inches wide and four inches thick, and I snapped it off without hardly slowing up.
Now they wereslowing up; they had put the brakes on, and now they were soaring easily, drifting with the wind.
The pits were better than heaps because air flow was further reduced, slowing down the fermentation, while their shallowness still permitted sufficient aeration.
Composting containers also have a potential disadvantage-reducing air flow, slowing decomposition, and possibly making the process go anaerobic.
When I saw the train slowing up I was afraid some of the machinery had broken.
As he spoke the train was slowing up, and in another minute it had stopped at a little station.
