nonspherical

If the potential is nonspherical, the picture is complicated in two respects.

This creates a local environment that favours certain orientations of nonspherical molecules.

Years ago, proton-proton collisions yielded some evidence of a nonspherical shape.

Indeed, this limit is utilized for nonspherical systems such as accretion disks.

A model for nonspherical collapse in general relativity with emission of matter and gravitational waves has been presented.

The rules require that the guns fire "nonspherical objects," like darts tipped with suction cups.

While its wave function is spherical, the stable shape of the bubble is nonspherical.

Being an oblate spheroid, the Earth has a nonspherical shape, bulging outward at the equator.

A later study expanded the signal processing method to compensate for the nonspherical and inhomogeneous nature of cell nuclei.

The calculations for a nonspherical primary are apparently orders of magnitude harder than for a spherical primary.

And if the nucleus is nonspherical the electrostatic field it produces, especially close to the nucleus, alters the atomic energies.

Once cavitation occurs near an extended solid surface, cavity collapse is nonspherical and drives high-speed jets of liquid to the surface.

Hence the Koosh, a mass of rubber fibers attached to a soft central core - "the world's first nonspherical nonbouncing ball," as Barbour says.

Ida's axis of rotation precesses with a period of 77 thousand years, due to the gravity of the Sun acting upon the nonspherical shape of the asteroid.

The size of the dust in the rings varies, but the cross-sectional area is greatest for nonspherical particles of radius about 15 μm in all rings except the halo.

The change in the transport properties is smaller in a diamagnetic gas, because the magnetic moment is not intrinsic (as it is in a paramagnetic gas), but induced by the rotation of a nonspherical molecule.

The resulting rotation of the molecule averages out the nonspherical part of the collision cross-section, if the field is large enough that the precession time is short compared to the time between collisions (this requires a very dilute gas).

He recognized also that he could correct the spherical aberration of the telescope by using nonspherical mirrors and that in the particular case of the afocal arrangement he could do this correction by using two parabolic mirrors.