The acorns, borne in a shallow cup, are hemispherical, 0. 35-0. 5 in ( 9-12 mm ) long, green, maturing blackish-brown about 18 months after pollination.

The cup nest is smoothly hemispherical inside, with a deep depression to house the eggs.

However, both Kolomenskoye and Dyakovo churches have flattened hemispherical domes, and the same type could have been used by Barma and Postnik.

Both are made with a takoyaki pan, a type of frying pan or cooktop with many hemispherical molds.

The hemispherical dome on a tall octagonal drum, first of its type in France, has four small cupolas in the angles of the Greek cross above the two Corinthian orders on the façade, of full columns below, flat pilasters above.

Fisheye lenses, which take hemispherical views, utilize this type of distortion as a way to map an infinitely wide object plane into a finite image area.

* 1909: The prechamber with a hemispherical combustion chamber was developed by Prosper L ' Orange with Benz.

Instead, they advance by eruptive waves, where hemispherical bulges appear from the front margin of the cell, which is clear.

This was a heavy duty replacement for the original pressure sphere ( made in Italy by Acciaierie Terni ) and was manufactured in three finely-machined sections: an equatorial ring and two hemispherical caps.

The form of a Sumerian temple is manifestation of Near Eastern cosmology, which described the world as a disc of land which was surrounded by a salt water ocean, both of which floated on another sea of fresh water called apsu, above them was a hemispherical firmament which regulated time.

This pitfall is avoided by incident-light meters which measure the amount of light falling on the subject using an integrating sphere ( usually, a translucent hemispherical plastic dome is used to approximate this ) placed on top of the light sensor.

They are all underlain by a hemispherical rim of " insta-Rock ," so called because it was created from local sand by the impact shock wave, and all three are nearly full of sand.

Æbleskiver are cooked on the stove top by baking in a special cast iron pan with several hemispherical indentations.

Hemispherical cylinder heads have been used since at least 1901 ; they were used by the Belgian car maker Pipe in 1905, the Peugeot Grand Prix Car of 1912 and the Alfa Romeo Grand Prix car of 1914 both were four valve engines also, Daimler, and Riley were also using hemispherical combustion chambers.

Erected after 1111, the death year of the Prince, the little building has an upper part characterized by a polygonal drum surmounted by a hemispherical dome.

The overall effect is immediate viewer orientation according to the major axis of the building, even though the cylindrical space topped by a hemispherical dome is inherently ambiguous.

The B-29 Superfortress, introduced later in the war brought the innovation of four remotely operated twin-gun turrets on its fuselage, controlled through an analog computer sighting system sighted from any of a trio of hemispherical clear-glazed stations, with only the rear tail gunner position on the plane directly manned by a crewmember.

The sharpness of this ogive is expressed by the ratio of its radius to the diameter of the cylinder ; a value of one half being a hemispherical dome, and larger values being progressively more pointed.

A kippah or kipa ( ; or ; plural: kippot or ), also known as a yarmulke ( or from ), kapele (), is a hemispherical or platter-shaped cap, usually made of cloth, often worn by Orthodox Jewish men to fulfill the customary requirement held by some orthodox halachic authorities that their head be covered at all times, and usually worn by men and, less frequently, women in Conservative and Reform communities at times of prayer.

The Aries was powered by a then-new 2. 2 L I4 SOHC engine, with a Mitsubishi " Silent Shaft " 2. 6 L as an option ( curiously this engine also featured hemispherical combustion chambers, and all 1981 Aries equipped with it featured " HEMI " badges on the front fenders ).

The zucchetto ( Italian: " small gourd ") is a small, hemispherical, form-fitting ecclesiastical skullcap, worn by clerics of the Roman Catholic Church and also used by the higher clergy in Anglicanism as well as in the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition.

They get their name from their roughly hemispherical calyx, a protuberance that is joining to the rest of the brain by a central nerve tract or peduncle.

Tree forms then become somewhat narrower, though crowns are still rounded and hemispherical shapes are maintained by those that have reached the canopy.

The Tamak has a hemispherical shape, with a wider circumference and played by two drum sticks.

On an anemometer with four cups it is easy to see that since the cups are arranged symmetrically on the end of the arms, the wind always has the hollow of one cup presented to it and is blowing on the back of the cup on the opposite end of the cross.

When Robinson first designed his anemometer, he asserted that the cups moved one-third of the speed of the wind, unaffected by the cup size or arm length.

The three cup anemometer developed by the Canadian John Patterson in 1926 and subsequent cup improvements by Brevoort & Joiner of the USA in 1935 led to a cupwheel design which was linear and had an error of less than 3 % up to.

The three cup anemometer also had a more constant torque and responded more quickly to gusts than the four cup anemometer.

The three cup anemometer was further modified by the Australian Derek Weston in 1991 to measure both wind direction and wind speed.

He redefined the absence of wind to be an air speed of, which was about as low a wind speed as a cup anemometer could measure.

The scale was made a standard for ship's log entries on Royal Navy vessels in the late 1830s and was adapted to non-naval use from the 1850s, with scale numbers corresponding to cup anemometer rotations.

John Thomas Romney Robinson: Invented the cup anemometer and measured the position of Armagh with rockets.

Named for the rainy weather of Seattle, the team uses many weather-related icons: the team mascot is Doppler, a maroon-furred creature with a cup anemometer on its head ; the theme song for Storm home games is AC / DC's " Thunderstruck "; and its newsletter is called Stormwatch.

The 160 mph ( 260 km / h ) wind measurement from Puerto Rico was taken by a cup anemometer in San Juan, 30 miles ( 50 km ) north of the storm's center, which measured 160 mph ( 260 km / h ) sustained winds three hours before the peak wind speed was reached ; however, the instrument was destroyed soon after and could not be calibrated.

* Conical measure, a type of graduated laboratory glassware with a conical cup and a notch on the top to facilitate pouring of liquids

* Kylix ( drinking cup ), a type of drinking cup used in ancient Greece

The " zone " is sometimes called the " wedge ", " cup ", " wall ", or " clam " ( depending on the specific play or type of zone defense ).

In 2010, Heinz began offering a new measured-portion package which allowed the consumer to either tear the top off the package and squeeze the contents out, as with the traditional packet, or, in the alternative, tear the front off the package and use the package as a dip cup of the type often supplied with certain entreés.

A rain gauge ( also known as a udometer or a pluviometer or an ombrometer or a cup ) is a type of instrument used by meteorologists and hydrologists to gather and measure the amount of liquid precipitation over a set period of time.

; E-type: This type front derailleurs do not clamp around the frame's seat tube, but instead are attached to the frame by a plate mounted under the drive side bottom bracket cup and a screw threaded into a boss on the seat tube.

By the computation we did above, if we cup this class with any class of type ( p, q ) ≠ ( k, k ), then we get zero.

According to legend he served his drink in the large end of an egg cup that was called a coquetier in French, and that the Americanized pronunciation of this as " cocktail " gave this type of drink its name.

The scrub plane is a type of plane used to remove large amounts of wood from the surface of lumber, such as when eliminating cup or twist in the first stages of preparing rough stock, or when reducing the thickness of a board significantly.

A menstrual cup is a type of cup or barrier worn inside the vagina during menstruation to collect menstrual fluid.

It consists of the chalice, a much plainer stemmed cup in copper-alloy, and four brooches, three elaborate pseudo-penannular ones, and one a true pennanular brooch of the thistle type ; this is the latest object in the hoard, and suggests it may have been deposited around 900.

A mug is a sturdily built type of cup often used for drinking hot beverages, such as coffee, tea, or hot chocolate.

This type of packaging consists of a round, clear plastic cup that mates bayonet-style to a base with a central post that holds a stack of discs ; dummy discs made of clear polycarbonate with no recording surface are often packed on the ends of the stack to avoid scratches from contact with the hard plastic of the packages.

Tea also contains theanine and the stimulant caffeine at about 3 % of its dry weight, translating to between 30 mg and 90 mg per 8 oz ( 250 ml ) cup depending on type, brand and brewing method.

Another type of demitasse has a glass cup set into a metal frame.

The first type has a base with a vertical mast from which there are hooks to hold each cup.

Note also the repairing, when to steel is a galv cup head type bolt tightened from underneath

A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event.

A conical measure is a type of laboratory glassware which consists of a conical cup with a notch on the top to allow for the easy pouring of liquids, and graduated markings on the side to allow easy and accurate measurement of volumes of liquid.

Green tea leaves steeping in a gaiwan ( type of tea cup ).

One very common type consists of a pliable disc surrounding a circular cup to hold the endpin's tip, such as the " Sure-Stop ".

They are very much like measure words in this respect ; when counting cups of coffee, it does not matter what the type of cup is, or the brand of the coffee.