transverse

• The court heard that two parts of the spine known as the transverse processes had suffered trauma and one or two had been fractured.
• Crushing, transverse, and other tests of clay products are made on the testing machines of the cement and concrete laboratories Outside of the building, in a lean-to, there is a double-chamber rattler for the testing of paving brick according to the specifications of the National Brick Manufacturers’ Association In the smaller room adjoining the machine laboratory there are two small wet-grinding ball mills, of two and four jars, respectively, and also a 9-leaf laboratory filter press The remaining room on the first floor is devoted to the drying of clays and clay wares. —  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171
• But the moment the motion became transverse, the needle was deflected 111. —  Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
• There is another region connected with the memory of spoken words--the auditory word-centre_; you will observe that it is situated in the posterior third of the first temporal convolution, but this does not comprise nearly the whole of it, for there is an extensive surface of grey matter lying unseen within the fissure, called the transverse convolutions, or gyri. —  The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
• If we have two wires, the first with a transverse area only one-quarter that of the second, and the first breaks at 25 pounds, while the second breaks at 50 pounds, the tenacity of the first is twice as great as that of the second To the boy who understands simple ratio in mathematics, the problem would be like this 25 × 4 : 50 × 1, or as 2 : 1 THE MOST TENACIOUS METAL.--Steel has the greatest tenacity of all metals, and lead the least. —  Practical Mechanics for Boys

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