curvilinear tracery. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Water-filled tubes intersected irregular rooms in a kind of curvilinear logic. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
What, after all, do you call a business whose very name invokes the kind of curvilinear architecture the Jetsons once enjoyed?. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
The Starck Mobile features a "curvilinear" aluminum flask design and an embedded USB cable about six inches in length. From Wordnik.com. [Macworld] Reference
Every plane figure must be either rectilinear or curvilinear. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heavens] Reference
The projectile was following its curvilinear direction round the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
Now the rectilinear is bounded by more than one line, the curvilinear by one only. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heavens] Reference
For example, one of the most widely studied errors is the "curvilinear impetus principle"4. From Wordnik.com. [How To Study Intuitions: Examples from the Adult and Developmental Literatures] Reference
All masses are originally in a state of curvilinear movement whose rates change continuously. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
During that time, people moved more toward more curvilinear, shapes -- wilder shapes and colors. From Wordnik.com. ['Mad Men' series designer Dan Bishop discusses how he gets the sets so right] Reference
Naive physics: the curvilinear impetus principle and its role in interactions with moving objects. From Wordnik.com. [How To Study Intuitions: Examples from the Adult and Developmental Literatures] Reference
A wing added in the seventeenth century, with quaint curvilinear gable, projects into the garden behind. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Another method for measuring curvilinear map distances is to use a mechanical device called an opisometer. From Wordnik.com. [Location, distance, and direction on maps] Reference
Gehry's daring, curvilinear building could be the Wright rotunda for the 21st century on a gargantuan scale. From Wordnik.com. [In A Spiral] Reference
Tilting back his head enabled him to see the elaborately painted symbols stenciled on the curvilinear ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
The subject is treated as an interplay of curvilinear forms, mingling mother and child in one continuous whole. From Wordnik.com. [Art: Representation of Biblical Women.] Reference
Now it is to the curvilinear motions of the heavenly bodies that we must ascribe our subjection to the periodic law. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
Research studies have confirmed and expanded this classic curvilinear relationship to include more complex variations. From Wordnik.com. [Find Your Focus Zone] Reference
Unfortunately, there's reason to believe the trend may become curvilinear, ascending in a graceful, lethal upward swoop. From Wordnik.com. [An Inconvenient Truth] Reference
Notice also, that, whereas the relationships in July are linear, the relationships are strongly curvilinear in December. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #21 « Climate Audit] Reference
They contended that a "curvilinear slope ... indicates a callous disregard for the fundamental rectilinear frame of reference.". From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Slant] Reference
Both displays are surrounded by a display case composed of curvilinear horizontal wood slats designed by local artist Jorge Pardo. From Wordnik.com. [Latin American Art at LACMA] Reference
Bruce coined popularized the term blobject to refer to curvilinear, mass-produced products, as part of his Viridian Green movement. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives] Reference
They have a curvilinear one, as shown in the graph below, plotting gallons used per 10,000 miles driven 10,000 divided by mpg by mpg. From Wordnik.com. [The Miles Per Gallon Illusion | clusterflock] Reference
They have a curvilinear one, as shown in the graph below, plotting gallons used per 10,000 miles driven (10,000 divided by mpg) by mpg. From Wordnik.com. [The Miles Per Gallon Illusion | clusterflock] Reference
Antelope fossils found on the surface and in excavations show crisp, curvilinear cutmarks that could only have been made by stone tools. From Wordnik.com. [New Species Found] Reference
Back on the macro level, the decision to create curvilinear structures that reflect the shapes of the colossal trees above is pure genius. From Wordnik.com. [A sojourn at Blue Galaxy: Oh, how small I have suddenly become...] Reference
Finally, regarding your view that there is an optimal size of government, is this based on a curvilinear regression of empirical data, or just faith?. From Wordnik.com. [Foundations of Libertarianism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
That absence, explains designer Hani Rashid, is the whole point of his curvilinear work tent, which comes draped in white, red and red-and-white polka dot. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt Against Right Angles] Reference
For a straight-lined figure necessarily requires at least half as many laws as it has sides, while a curvilinear outline requires, in general, but a single law. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Storage compartments , refrigerating and heating equipment and ballast filled the spaces between the rectilinear walls and floors and the curvilinear outer shell. From Wordnik.com. ["The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 3] Reference
In his De motu he attempted to reduce various possible curvilinear velocities of lines, surfaces, and solids to the uniform rectilinear velocity of a moving point. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Using large national data sets and curvilinear growth models, we examine gender differences in mathematical trajectories from elementary school through high school. From Wordnik.com. [Switch Hitting: Part II] Reference
If I find it firmly attached to the apex of the tumor, I then enclose it in a curvilinear incision and proceed to detach the healthy skin to beyond the verge of the tumor. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
A State, through various convulsions of its own, has merged into a condition represented by a straight line, having lost its symmetry, its beauty, its curvilinear proportion. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
For, as we have pointed out earlier, observation tells us that all original movement - and what can be more original than the movements of the planetary bodies - is curvilinear. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
My particular areas of interest are integration in its various forms, and curvilinear coordinate systems. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
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