central spindle

Waste energy from the reactor, directed down a central spindle, illuminated everything.

Within them a gate rotated on a central spindle.

When Janine crossed the central spindle she saw it there, still as a statue.

When you push against the left-hand side of the case, it rotates inward on a central spindle.

Desperately, Dwer shoved the tube at the robot's central spindle and squeezed.

(In this picture, the central spindle upon which the wheel assembly rides cannot be seen.)

The whole rotated on a central spindle, and was moved by a steam engine that could be controlled by one man.

On the base, you should be able to see two screws, one on each side, or a central spindle with a threaded nut attached.

The central spindle is specially shaped to prevent it from becoming misaligned with the exterior of the cube.

All about the central spindle his children were hastening to do his bidding as the leader parceled out assignments.

In one orrery, these three motions could be mounted on a common table, separately using the central spindle as a prime mover.

Changers typically had an extended central spindle that the records were stacked on, and an extra arm designed to hold the stack steady.

The shield is decorated with a central spindle boss, on which are pieces of red coral that are thought to have come from the Mediterranean area.

A mobile hung from the ceiling in the nurses' station, the birds depending from it swinging and dipping gracefully around a central spindle.

There was a central spindle on the tyring platform, and the wheel was put over this and clamped down so that it wouldn't spring.

Seemingly vital for the formation of the central spindle (and therefore efficient cytokinesis) is a heterotetrameric protein complex called centralspindlin.

Ericsson's turret turned on a central spindle, and Coles's turned on a ring of bearings.

These were double- or triple-expansion compound engines, with the unusual features of single-acting cylinders and a central spindle valve shared between all cylinders.

With a faint rumble, an entire section of the wall pivoted around on a central spindle, opening on a narrow flight of stairs leading up into total darkness.

He could sense it, sense how his memories were beginning to swirl about a central spindle, like a glowing helix.... "I'm sorry," came T'Vysse's voice.

As the speed of the prime mover increases, the central spindle of the governor rotates at a faster rate and the kinetic energy of the balls increases.

The mitotic apparatus is made up of a central spindle and polar asters made up of polymers of tubulin protein called microtubules.

Indirect immunofluorescence showed that Aurora B and EB1 colocalize during anaphase on the central spindle and in the midbody during cytokinesis.

They retired to the common space in Gateway's central spindle, the place they called the Blue Hell, to consider their options over cups of Gateway's expensive and watery coffee.

As Mercedes had observed, they were carried at the turn of the hull, where the central spindle of a warship curled over into the relatively flat top and bottom of her hull.