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He pulled a plate-shaped object from one of his bags and slapped it hard against the wall.

As yet he had sighted none of the aliens, only their plate-shaped flyers.

Near the highest point is a plate-shaped rock formation projecting a few meters from the side of the hill.

Ashe sorted through the plate-shaped containers of record wire.

It includes a class of hard minerals occurring as lath- or plate-shaped crystal grains.

His jersey gowns flowed like heavy cream from plate-shaped necklaces around the models' necks.

Clays are formed from thin plate-shaped particles held together by electrostatic forces, so present a cohesion.

As the name suggests (Teller is the German word for dish or plate) the mines were plate-shaped.

The cranium is formed from eight plate-shaped bones which fit together at meeting points (joints) called sutures.

Ellipsoid and plate-shaped aggregates are also used.

I patted the firm, plate-shaped jaw.

This photobioreactor type consists of a plate-shaped basic geometry with peaks and valleys arranged in regular distance.

He said he has long favored the plate-shaped diagrams used in Mexico and Britain, which even include utensils for maximum effect.

The structure of a dispersion of monodispersed, plate-shaped colloidal particles has been investigated under shear.

In its place officials are dishing up a simple, plate-shaped symbol, sliced into wedges for the basic food groups and half-filled with fruits and vegetables.

This method typically utilizes a broad, plate-shaped basket or similar receptacle to hold and collect the winnowed grain as it falls back down.

The plate-shaped UAV has a rotor at the top that thrusts air downward, providing lift and thrust.

The particles are plate-shaped with an average diameter around 1 μm and a thickness of 9.6X10 m. Members of this group include saponite.

Fire rainbows, known by the proper name of circumhorizon arc, occur when cirrus clouds are far enough up in the air to form plate-shaped ice crystals.

A typical hot-cathode thyratron uses a heated filament cathode, completely contained within a shield assembly with a control grid on one open side, which faces the plate-shaped anode.

Molten metal jumped and hissed as it drizzled into plate-shaped molds, and above the groaning voice of the furnace reverberated the clang of hammer on anvil.

In Haloferax volcanii, CetZ forms dynamic cytoskeletal structures required for differentiation from a plate-shaped cell form into a rod-shaped form that exhibits swimming motility.

In 1986, the Academy of Chinese Social Science discovered Stone Age relics in Cili County, unearthing 108 articles of stoneware; mostly tapered-form, hacked-tamped and plate-shaped works.

Compression The sample (rubber, foams, biopolymers, pasty materials, etc.) is placed on a flat surface in the sample holder and pressure is applied from above with the plate-shaped end of the push rod.

A circumhorizontal arc is an optical phenomenon - an ice-halo formed by the refraction of sun- or moonlight in plate-shaped ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere, typically in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds.