metacentric

How To Use metacentric In A Sentence

• Having obtained the metacentric height, reference to a diagram will at once show the whole range of stability; and this being ascertained at each loading, the stowage of the cargo can be so adjusted as to avoid excessive stiffness in the one hand and dangerous tenderness on the other. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
• A V-shaped metacentric chromosome has two arms: 10 metacentric chromosomes would have a total of 20 arms. Trout and Salmon of North America
• The metacentric height can be selectively varied by varying the relationship of center of gravity to that of the dipole mass system with respect to the metacenter of the gravity gradiometer.
• Similarly, if the center of gravity is lowered 6 in. on the same displacement, the curve, B, will be found, and in this manner comparative diagrams can be constructed giving at a glance the stability of a vessel for any given draught of water and metacentric height. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
• If the centromere is in the middle, the chromosome is metacentric and the chromosome arms are equal in size.
• Note that almost all metacentric and submetacentric chromosomes have split at the centromere into two daughter units.
• The scale having previously been properly graduated, the metacentric height for the draught and state of loading can be at once read off in inches, while as a check the water can be transferred from the one test tank to the other, and the metacentric height read off as before, but on the opposite side of the zero pointer. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
• All four populations had 2n = 38, with ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes (Z, acrocentric; W, submetacentric). BioMed Central - Latest articles
• Round the top of the scale, at D, are engraved four different draughts, and under these are the metacentric heights. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
• This large metacentric height acts as a spring against pitch and roll motions.