These "plateaux" of learning are sometimes to be accounted for by muscular fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
In 1982 they suddenly saw entirely new plateaux in the Hall effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998] Reference
The Arabian desert approached the sea in a series of plateaux or steps. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Elements pour l'etude de la vegetation des hauts plateaux du Fouta Djalon. From Wordnik.com. [Guinean montane forests] Reference
Then on and on, swift as an eagle, over the high plateaux and steppes of Eastern. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
Le vent des hauts-plateaux souffle où il veut : qui peut lui imposer une direction?. From Wordnik.com. [souffler - French Word-A-Day] Reference
The massifs and plateaux are deeply dissected by ancient canyons and seasonal wadis. From Wordnik.com. [Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger] Reference
Sur quelques traits de la végétation des plateaux calcaires dans l'Ouest de Madagascar. From Wordnik.com. [Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar] Reference
Pleistocene moraines and outwash form extensive areas of subdued hill country and low plateaux. From Wordnik.com. [Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand] Reference
La, the first of three gigantic steps by which the lofty plateaux of Central Asia are attained. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Tibetans] Reference
It swept over the entire South African plateaux and destroyed great numbers of sheep and cattle. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked] Reference
Ice caps, cirque glaciers and valley glaciers were generally confined to the high mountains and plateaux. From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference
They had encountered that type of visual illusion which makes rising white plateaux appear perfectly flat. From Wordnik.com. [Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81] Reference
Grand Banks, pushed by a chill gale which might first have passed over the icy plateaux of inner Greenland. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
Their experimental curve exhibits well defined plateaux, but the authors did not comment upon these results. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics] Reference
Mountain Zone, and among those intermont plateaux which we have noted already, than borderers of the Grassland itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
While marching in through the lowlands he had been seized with a fever that he had failed to shake off on the plateaux. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The high puna plateaux, glaciers and cluster of peaks over 6,000 m make it one of the most scenic of all mountain regions. From Wordnik.com. [Huascaran National Park, Peru] Reference
Lavas dominate on narrow plateaux on the eastern and western side of the main island, while the central plateau is cut into tufa. From Wordnik.com. [Brazilian Atlantic Islands, Brazil] Reference
The experiment clearly demonstrated the existence of plateaux with values that are quantised with extraordinarily great precision. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics] Reference
Vegetation consists mainly of dense dry deciduous forests, which are characteristic of the limestone plateaux of western Madagascar. From Wordnik.com. [Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar] Reference
In Horst Störmer's and Daniel Tsui's experiments several new, unexpected notches and plateaux appeared in the quantised Hall effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998] Reference
Among these are remarkable plateaux, which are taken advantage of by caravans, and which have elevations of from 14,000 to 15,000 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Tibetans] Reference
Till the glaciers melted, and drove the peoples to the high places, like the lofty plateaux of Mexico, separated them into cut-off nations. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
The fractional Quantum Hall effect is like the Quantum Hall effect but the plateaux occur at steps which imply a fractional charge carrier. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Report: New Strides on the Road to a Quantum Computer] Reference
They crawled and climbed and scrambled over high ethical plateaux and ranges, or drowned themselves in metaphysical seas of sentimentality. From Wordnik.com. [The Passing of Marcus O'Brien] Reference
Alpine vegetation occupies the higher peaks and plateaux above the treeline, which varies from about 800 m near the coast to 1,200 m inland. From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference
Terrain: most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (steppes) and plateaux, mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians), and in the. From Wordnik.com. [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Other witnesses reached by telephone said all the detainees belonged, like Ravalomanana, to ethnic groups from Madagascar's central high plateaux region. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The vast multitude gathered from every land in Western Asia, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf and the wild mountain plateaux of the. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
It is largely mountainous, with altitude ranging from 162 to 1,430 metres, and has a tropical climate in the lowlands and subtropical climate in the higher plateaux. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
PONDICHERRY By Paul Spencer Sochaczewski As Bastille Day events go, the reception was rather low-key: a speech by the French consul, a few plateaux of fromage and saucisson. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Places] Reference
The lowest of these plateaux is higher than the summit of the Pass of the Great St Bernard, the highest inhabited ground in Europe, which is 7545 feet above the level of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
SENE, M. (1988): Le travail la dent en traction bovine pour une meilleure infiltration des eaux des premires pluies sur sols grvillonnaires en bordure de plateaux: C.R. de Kaymor. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
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