They can be arranged in different shapes and sizes, from two to thousands of square meters.
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There really are a lot of different shapes and flavors of this seemingly all encompassing word.
Parents may want to explain that families come in different shapes and sizes, Dr. Gowen says.
The tiny, powerful magnets are sold as a desktop toy that can be molded into different shapes.
The chemistry of DNA makes it relatively easy to construct different shapes at a very tiny scale.
Along the way, the moulding and sculpting of ice into different shapes became more sophisticated, incorporating the use of salt and tools.
Roxanne takes a second black velvet-lined box out, one containing several pieces of translucent jade of different shapes, colours and sizes.
Their big advantage over LEDs is that they can be transformed into many different shapes including the screens for high-definition televisions.
Spectrum comes in different shapes and sizes (well, different frequencies and bandwidths, to be precise) and a machine system needs spectrum with very particular characteristics.
Moreover, these effects vary when particles are engineered into different shapes.
Brass instruments are wind instruments, and although they may be coiled or bent into different shapes, all brass instruments consist essentially of a very long metal tube.
"Bodies come in different shapes and sizes, and the very idea that there is a concrete qualifying number, and if someone can match it they're considered healthy, is wrong, " she says.
The body harness and head strap had to be as light and unobtrusive as possible too - no mean feat when dogs come in different shapes and sizes, even within breeds.
Small ones, different colors, different shapes, even electronic versions.
The Arctic sea ice is constantly moving, breaking open and reforming into different shapes - which means we can end up moving several kilometres in any direction while we are asleep in our tents.
But Mr Horspool's achievement is to show the sheer extent to which rebellion in its many different shapes and forms has been a continuous and conscious tradition shaping the behaviour of both the ruled and their rulers.
Details of exactly how these high-tech tailor's dummies work are closely guarded, pending patent protection, but the basic idea is that a network of actuators inside the dummy will push and pull a flexible outer shell into different shapes.
There were the jackets and knits that looked as if they were draped on the shoulders of the models but look again and you see that it is all part of the cut and the way he fused two different shapes together.
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I'm making it for different women, different ages, different body shapes, different colors.
Once he has proved that this arrangement can bury itself in a satisfactory manner, he plans to run a competition between robot clams with different shell shapes in order to understand what makes some more efficient than others.
But among the tasks the machine can perform in a single step are edge detection, inversion, the identification of lines and shapes of different orientations, and the filling-in of concave shapes all things that are useful in image-processing, and not all of which can be managed by digital technology.
Using a force control system reacting to the pressure on the feet, HyQ can navigate and traverse irregular surfaces and adjust its pace to overcome obstacles of different sizes and shapes.
Their strange shapes are different from the spiral and elliptical galaxies we see today.
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But despite going to many different designers, the shapes of her gowns rarely changed.
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The jeans must be magic, because the girls' shapes couldn't be more different.
Allenson, who created DecisionVue 360, says the methodology shapes survey questions and analyzes responses to identify the different steps involved in any purchasing process and the way buying habits vary by population segment.
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They were yellowed and broken, the remains of maybe a dozen different creatures twisted and spotted skulls and ribs in sizes and shapes Max had never seen in any book or museum.
Simply showing that speakers of different languages think differently doesn't tell us whether it's language that shapes thought or the other way around.
At the EADS labs in Filton, U.K., researchers demonstrated that they can print out several different metal parts for airplanes with a technology that uses a laser to heat metal powders until they form solid metal shapes.
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