The plants also change shape, shrinking to minimize the surface area through which their remaining water might evaporate.

这些植物还会改变形状，萎缩以使表面积最小化，剩余水分正是通过植物表面蒸发掉的。

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A new method of surface shape measurement of aspherical optical components.

一种测量非球面光学零件面形的新方法。

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An aspherical reflector is tested and testing data are processed by the interpolation calculation, then the curve equation of the component surface shape is fitted.

对一个非球面反射镜进行了实测并对测量结果进行插值运算，进而拟合出零件面形的曲线方程。

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Surface--a highly responsive touch-screen computer the size and shape of a coffee table--is the latest attempt in the wireless industry to transform the way consumers shop for mobile devices.

FORBES: Surface Surfaces At AT&T

In the past a product's shape alterations would be hammered out by designers in a surface-modeling program, a tool that allows for easy curve design and concept change.

FORBES: Easy Designer

CDM's imaging system, it passes first through conventional optical elements, and then through a lens moulded into a shape of a cubic-like function (ie, with a surface which, instead of being spherical, is relatively flat in the centre but has scalloped edges).

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