ratchet-like

Switching between the two games seemed to create a ratchet-like effect.

All of these species are similar in size and have a similar ratchet-like call.

Together these methods allow a complex objective to be reached gradually in a ratchet-like fashion.

It is played by rubbing a stick or tines along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.

Also, asymmetric periodic Josephson energy potential can be used to construct ratchet-like devices.

Productivity measures mask these things because of the ratchet-like effect of loss of market share.

The talons are like needles, perfectly sharp at the edges, with these ratchet-like tendons.

Earlier, and by many manufacturers, an arrangement to disengage the clutch (via a ratchet-like device) during coasting was tried to ease shifting.

On all the evidence it is highly improbable that overvaluation was the dominant constraint; particularly since import penetration occurred in a ratchet-like fashion.

And in the morning I was awakened by the mewing and screeching and the ratchet-like scrapings of birds in the palms above me.

Molecular propellers can be rotated by molecular motors that can be driven by chemical, biological, optical and electrical means, or various ratchet-like mechanisms.

When the Polyphon operates, the resulting disc projections, called plectra, engage with a series of ratchet-like star wheels, each with 9 projections, that sit in a gantry.

A ratchet or ratchet-like mechanism in one of the wheels on each ski allows for uni-directional travel to simulate "grip" - comparable to grip wax on snow; the other wheel is free-rolling.

Parkinsonian features could include shuffling gait, reduced arm-swing during walking, blank expression (reduced range of facial expression), stiffness of movements, ratchet-like cogwheeling movements; low speech volume, sialorrhea and difficulty swallowing.

It either referred to the way the ratchet-like sound of the Güiro is produced by rubbing a scraper over its indentations or to the scratching movements - similar to a scraping chicken - the dancers perform during the folk dance.

The male stridulates by raising and lowering his wing cases repeatedly while scraping the rear edge of the left forewing, which forms a plectrum, against the lower edge of the right forewing, which has a ratchet-like series of teeth.

Schoolboys gather about midday on Maundy Thursday before the church with their Klepper (ratchet-like noisemakers) and then go about the village, making noise with their Klepper and calling out "Das ist der englische Gruß, den jeder Christ beten muss!"

Mole crickets stridulate like other crickets by scraping the rear edge of the left forewing, which forms a plectrum, against the lower surface of the right forewing, which has a ratchet-like series of asymmetric teeth: the more acute edges face backwards, as do those of the plectrum.