heat distortion

The heat distortion problems of aluminum engines have never been fully solved.

A few meters behind Hernandez, there was a rippling effect in the air, like heat distortion.

Now Wolf felt a ripple, something akin to the heat distortion one sees rising off a road in summer.

"Perhaps a heat distortion of some kind."

There was another one five hundred metres past the first, heat distortion above the sea made it impossible to see if there was a third.

Resting on the skyline of the city, the sun blazed and, although the day had barely begun, the air wavered with heat distortion.

Variances we originally attributed to heat distortion."

It also, more importantly, reduces heat distortion of the surface contour, which has to be corrected on the wheel or with hammer and dolly.

Oxy-acetylene welding joints don't have this drawback, provided they are allowed to cool to room temperature in air, but do produce more heat distortion.

There was a brick chimney running up the side, and a shimmer of heat distortion against the clouds, so I knew someone was there.

It allows the joining of dissimilar metals, minimization of heat distortion, and can reduce the need for extensive pre-heating.

The heat distortion temperature is determined by the following test procedure outlined in ASTM D648.

He reckoned a day's work might see the main engines functioning, thought it was impossible to say until they were on test whether there had been any heat distortion.

Nev Reoh kept pointing to rock outcroppings and shimmering heat distortions, asking Bobbie Ray what they were.

Following E3, High Voltage Software updated the Quantum3 engine with several new features, including a depth of field effect, heat distortion, and specularity.

Coincidentally, the graphics in Sonic 3, especially the backgrounds, are pretty elaborate, as well as full of animated effects, such as swaying plants and heat distortion."

The gray-and-white camouflaged vehicle's jet-turbine engines gave off a loud and steady whine, and wavering ripples of heat distortion rose from the thrusters' exhaust ports.

The afternoon suns beat down with an almost palpable force, and shimmering waves of heat distortion rippled above the wreck's sand-scoured hull, which coruscated with reflected light.

With a shimmer like heat distortion, the defensive shield--normally a convex shape above the base--inverted and enveloped the Tezwan patrol gathered outside the base entrance.

They used carbon dioxide gas to smother the burning paint and oil, for cold water on the heated metal would have aggravated the damage done by heat distortion and buckling.

Later, when the heat distortion problems inherent in aluminum engines surfaced, Vega engines started to burn out when excessive thermal expansion forced water out of the cooling system.

On the screen, through waves of acrid smoke and dust, a planet's edge dissolved and was replaced by a hazy globular mass that didn't look like anything but heat distortion.

The lens of the binoculars magnified the heat distortion through the still air, making them change shape and size so that one second they were insignificant and the next they were monstrous.

Urea-formaldehyde resin's attributes include high tensile strength, flexural modulus, and heat distortion temperature, low water absorption, mould shrinkage, high surface hardness, elongation at break, and volume resistance.

There was something odd about where the road vanished from sight; just before the horizon there was a sort of shimmering, like heat distortion but extending along the horizon as far as she could see.