1. A small disk-shaped formation or growth; a patch.

2. According to forces applying on the disk-shaped cutters of whole-section tunneler, cutter arrangement rules are established with even loading on the disk and null traverse load.

3. To represent a disk-shaped galaxy we adopt a two-gas-disk model (one for the interstellar gas disk and the other for the stellar disk). The following conclusions are drawn from our analysis: 1.

4. In this paper, a computational method for coplanar disk-shaped cracks within an elastic infinite body is presented.

5. The 3D transient flow characteristics of the disk-shaped turbo-molecular pump was simulated with Monte Carlo approach to evaluate the influence of its exhaust geometry on the pumping coefficient.

6. Torus (pl. tori) A disk-shaped structure formed from lignified primary cell-wall material on the middle lamella of a bordered pit.

7. Beyond the orbit of Neptune one finds the disk-shaped Kuiper belt, in which dwarf planet Pluto resides, and far beyond that is the giant, spherical Oort Cloud and the teardrop-shaped heliopause.

8. A trademark used for a plastic disk-shaped toy that players throw and catch. This trademark sometimes occurs in print meaning . a throw-and-catch game played with this toy.

9. The disk-shaped receiver, which measures about 2 in. across, can rotate and swivel up and down to get better reception.

10. Therefore, it has great significance to research DC icing test methods on disk-shaped suspension insulator for study of DC transmission line characteristics of external insulation.

11. It summarizes the development of the forging technology of heavy disk-shaped forging.

12. This design principle and method can also be applied in rotating disk-shaped part processing machine with speed variation.

13. Instead, it darted in different directions, sullen and aggressive, nearly brushing against me as it scanned me with large, black, disk-shaped eyes.

14. To create plasma,[sentence dictionary] they applied an oscillating (radio frequency) electric field to the gas using two disk-shaped electrodes located near the top and bottom of the chamber.

15. Spiral waves propagation in oscillatory media with a large disk-shaped inhomogeneity in oscillatory systems is examined in Chapter 3.

16. From the point of view of fracture mechanics, we studied the far displacement field produced by a disk-shaped pure shear fracture and obtained an analytic expression for that field.

17. Researchers are seeking treatments that more gently orchestrate activity of platelets, disk-shaped particles in the blood that form clots.