While these vibratory movements of the atmosphere are correctly classified as waves, they bear little resemblance to the waves on water.
They consist of progressive vibratory movements of the air that originate in vibrating bodies.
Science has guessed some inkling of the truth," he cried, "when it declares that the ultimate molecules of matter are in constant vibratory movement one about another, even upon the point of a needle.
To these her whole mass reacts by the most exquisite alterations in its total gait and by the still more exquisite vibratory responses in its substance.
The blood-dust of Muller consists of fine granules which have vibratory motion.
In the case of the tertian parasite, these granules have active vibratory motion, which renders them conspicuous; and as the parasite itself is very pale, one may see only a large pale corpuscle in which fine pigment-granules are dancing.
Peacocks and Birds of Paradise rattle their quills together, and the vibratory movement apparently serves merely to make a noise, for it can hardly add to the beauty of their plumage.
The various species of woodpeckers strike a sonorous branch with their beaks, with so rapid a vibratory movement that "the head appears to be in two places at once.
The animals move with the narrow apex forwards, by the aid of their vibratory ciliae, and generally by rapid starts.
By reason of the elasticity of the glass, the windows acquire a vibratory movement corresponding in period with half the number of revolutions of the engine.
The expense entailed will be largely offset by saving the cost of special anti-vibratory substances.
This layer of sand constitutes the anti-vibratory material and confines the trepidations of the engine to the foundation.
Before long, the presence of Spiritual power becomes manifest by raps on the table, or by vibratory movements of the table, more or less violent, and by spasmodic jerkings or twitching of the Medium's arms or body.
Thirdly: concussions and vibratory motion, though in reality only supported by the prop buttress, must be provided for by buttresses on both sides of the wall, as their direction cannot be foreseen, and is continually changing.
Valdemar; and concluding him to be dead, we were consigning him to the charge of the nurses, when a strong vibratory motion was observable in the tongue.
The only real indication, indeed, of the mesmeric influence, was now found in the vibratory movement of the tongue, whenever I addressed M.
Suppose that to this oil or water were added a certain quantity of a specific salt, which had a power of putting the nervous papillæ of the tongue into a gentle vibratory motion; as suppose sugar dissolved in it.
The smoothness of the oil and the vibratory power of the salt cause the sense we call sweetness.
I'd better be rigging that vibratory apparatus before long," he reflected.
What you are beholding now is simply a slightly new form of vibratory effect.
That immunity, for your vibratorysecrets that have revolutionized the defensive tactics of the League's air-forces?
I have investigated, I have ventured along the coasts of the unknown vibratory sea, and even sailed out a little way on the waters of that unknown, mysterious ocean.
His thoughts wandered from Nissr and the great adventure, from the coming attackers, from the vibratory apparatus, yes from the goal of all this undertaking itself, back to "Captain Alden.
Other creatures, in other planets, no doubt have other sense-organs to absorb other vibratory ranges.
The last step in this series of exercises to awaken a recognition of vibratory sensations is to lead him to feel in his own chest and head the vibrations set up by his own voice in shouting and laughing, crying or babbling.
This ether is not light, but light is produced in it by the excitation on the part of luminous bodies of a vibratory motion, similar to the undulation of water that produces waves, or the vibration of air affording sound.
The nature of a vibratory medium is indeed better understood by reference to that which we know possesses the ordinary properties of matter--viz.
Especially important in the easy and rapid locomotion of many unicellulars is the formation of fine hairlike processes at the surface of the body; in the broadest sense, they are called vibratory hairs.
They have lost the vibratory coat of their free-living ancestors, the turbellaria, and acquired clinging apparatus instead.
It moves by means of vibratory lashes or bands, which are attached to special armlike processes at the surface.
The vibratory movements of the sperm-cells serve for approaching the ovulum in order to fertilize it.
On the other hand, it is probable that the sliding movements of many of the diatomes are due to fine processes (vibratory hairs?
It was discovered at the same time that similar vibratory cells are found in many of the plants (algae, mosses, and ferns).
The vibratory apparatus reaches its highest development in the ctenophora.
This staggering adds to the instability of the visible objects by giving a vibratory motion besides their rotatory one.
Why after a voyage ideas of vibratory motions are perceived on shore.
After a voyage ideas of vibratory motions are still perceived on shore.
Any portion of these nerve centres suffering from congestion, will find prompt relief in mechanical vibratory movements.
He ceased, and some time later a vibratory monotone commenced far up under the stars, gathering strength and volume until it rolled in long pulsations down the steep ranges' side.
All that is necessary to review such a picture is to change our point of consciousness from the brain to a point in space or mind, where the vibratory movement is still in progress.
By opening our inward sight, and putting ourselves in accord with another vibratory plane of existence, we are in full rapport with a condition that makes no impression upon the members of the sleeping world not so impressed.
But suppose the machinery of your body were finer--suppose your senses were absolutely in accord with those vibratory movements, instead of only partially so--do you not know that the starlight would reveal far more than it now does?
