"sharp" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They were a useful design and because of their light weight and short wheelbase, were often used on dockside branches with sharp curvatures, including that at Weymouth, Dorset.
- In 1949 five were put to work on the Edinburgh-Dundee-Aberdeen route and proved the ideal engines for its stiff gradients and sharp curvature.
- As with spirals, the main limitation in laying out a horseshoe is keeping the radii of curvature at or above a desirable minimum, as sharp curvatures will limit the speeds at which trains can run on the line.
- The sharp curvature slowed train operation and generated a loud metallic scraping noise.
- German scientists have made tiny nozzles that bend gas molecules through a sharp curvature.
- It is thought that this tear is caused by the unusually sharp curvature of this part of the arc coupled with the interaction of Bowers Ridge in the over-riding plate with the subduction zone.
- Out here the planet's sharp curvature had no effect on one's perspective, the curve was for once invisible, the cliffs free and clear even thirty kilometers away.
- The top structure uses a mesa to avoid a sharp curvature of the p-region next to the adjoining n-layer.
- In both cases, this wheel arrangement was used to provide a lower axle-load due to track conditions as well, particularly in the case of the DJs, a shorter wheelbase more suited to sharp curvature on secondary or tertiary routes.
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