" The Point " of Building 66 ( so-called because the building tapers to a wedge-shaped point ) is the easternmost point that is accessible at ground level while remaining indoors.

A glass-roofed and wedge-shaped foyer now contains the museum's shops and cafeteria, removing them from the main building to make more room for galleries.

The wedge-shaped building on the right is the visitors ' centre.

The narrow wedge-shaped site occupied by the station building gives it the longest frontage of any of the stations designed by Architect Leslie Green for the three tube lines owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London and opened in 1906 and 1907.

The Salt Lake City main library has an area of and is a five-story tall, wedge-shaped building.

" The building that gave the area its name, Scollay's Building, was " at one time a wedge-shaped row of wooden buildings, extending from the head of Cornhill to opposite the head of Hanover street, separated Tremont row from Court street ( see Bonner's map, 1722 ); at the southeasterly end the second schoolhouse in the town was erected, 1683-84 ; at various times portions of these buildings were removed, leaving only the Scollay brick building, supposed to have been built by Patrick Jeffrey, who came into possession in 1795 ; ... removed about 1870.

At the canyon mouth water spreads out and deposits its sediment load, gradually building up a large wedge-shaped alluvial fan that extends down toward Stovepipe Wells.

In 1935, the Packo family purchased the current wedge-shaped building on the corner of Front and Consaul streets next to the Maumee River, which includes the former Consaul Tavern.

A voussoir ( pronounced / vuˈswɑr /) is a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, used in building an arch or vault.

The new building is architecturally linked to the design of the Old Cony High School building which featured a wedge-shaped flatiron design.

The building stands on a wedge-shaped site at the junction of Park Avenue, Woodward Avenue, and Washington Boulevard.

Cuneiform literally means " wedge-shaped ", due to the triangular tip of the stylus used for impressing signs on wet clay.

Two variants on the couched lance charge developed, the French method, en haie, with lancers in a double line and the German method, with lancers drawn up in a deeper formation which was often wedge-shaped.

Gore is a small, wedge-shaped township, consisting of only four full sections and six partial sections on the shore of Lake Huron just north of the village of Port Hope.

In the linear aerospike the spike consists of a tapered wedge-shaped plate, with exhaust exiting on either side at the " thick " end.

Like all viburnums, the leaves are arranged in opposite pairs on the twigs ; they are oval, ~ 2-4 in ( 5 – 10 cm ) long and ~ 3 / 4 in-2 in ( 2 – 5 cm ) broad, wedge-shaped, rounded or subcordate at base, with an acuminate apex and a finely serrated margin, and a winged petiole.

With their projecting, wedge-shaped snouts, they stir up the soft bottom, and use the barbels to detect shells, crustaceans and small fish, on which they feed.

Cuneiform was entirely based on the " wedge-shaped " mark that the end of a cut reed made when pushed into a clay tablet, hence the name " cuneiform " from Latin cuneus = " wedge ".

The machine consisted of a wedge-shaped metal box about half a metre on the side, with a keyboard at the front, a cassette tape recorder ( s ) in the middle, and a tiny one-line plasma display at the top.

The 4 wedge-shaped frets on the neck became 6 during the 20th century.

It was a wedge-shaped 2 + 2 sports coupé body style based on the Saab 900 Turbo 16v.

* Leaves: Alternate, palmately nerved, broadly-ovate or orbicular, four to nine inches long, truncate or cordate or wedge-shaped at base, decurrent on the petiole.

In about 1750, Joseph Black developed the analytical balance based on a light-weight beam balanced on a wedge-shaped fulcrum.

There is an unresolved dispute involving a wedge-shaped slice on the International Boundary in the Beaufort Sea, between the Canadian territory of Yukon and the U. S. state of Alaska.

A final segment, called the key, is wedge-shaped, and expands the ring until it is tight against the circular cut of the ground left behind by cutters on the TBM shield.

As a rough guide, Western kitchen knives generally have a double-bevel ( approximately 15 ° on the first bevel and 20 – 22 ° on the second ), while East Asian kitchen knives are made of harder steel and are ground at 15 – 18 °, being either wedge-shaped ( double-ground ) or chisel-shaped ( single-ground ).

The tail is long and wedge-shaped, with dark barring on the uppertail, and the wings are rounded.

Recognizing that the various transportation routes into an urban area, including railroads, sea ports, and tram lines, represented greater access, Hoyt theorized that cities tended to grow in wedge-shaped patterns -- or sectors -- emanating from the central business district and centered on major transportation routes.

The old city is located in a triangular area between the river and the wedge-shaped rock formation, which forms a natural barrier on two sides.

By the end of the 1973 season the best car on the track was probably the new McLaren M23, a wedge-shaped car following the same concept as the Lotus 72 but with more conventional suspension and up to date aerodynamics.

Free flowing electrons are forced around a wedge-shaped obstacle ( the ' deflector ') on one of two paths, corresponding to a logical ' 1 ' or ' 0 '.

They have four lobes, and are heart-shaped or truncate or slightly wedge-shaped at base, entire, and the apex cut across at a shallow angle, making the upper part of the leaf look square ; midrib and primary veins prominent.

If a wedge-shaped coating of increasing thickness is removed from a substrate by an instrument like the Hesiometer with a knife of constant rake angle, a number of removal mechanisms are often observed which depend upon the thickness of the coating.

Mercati was interested in Ceraunia cuneata, " wedge-shaped thunderstones ," which seemed to him to be most like axes and arrowheads, which he now called ceraunia vulgaris, " folk thunderstones ," distinguishing his view from the popular one.

Cuneiform ( from the Latin word for " wedge-shaped ") can refer to:

* Pie menu items typically are selected faster and have a lower error rate than linear menu items, for two reasons: because pie menu items are all the same, small distance from the centre of the menu ; and because their wedge-shaped target areas ( which usually extend to the edge of the screen ) are very large.

The difference between the two was a wedge-shaped strip of land, five miles ( 8 km ) wide at the Indiana border, eight miles ( 13 km ) wide at Lake Erie, and from west to east, an area of about and including the mouth of the Maumee river.

The adult Australian Magpie is a fairly robust bird ranging from 37 to 43 cm ( 14. 5 – 17 in ) in length, with distinctive black and white plumage, gold brown eyes and a solid wedge-shaped bluish-white and black bill.

Although it rarely needs to be distinguished from other Aquila eagles, its long, wedge-shaped tail is unique to this species.

Adult, wild eagle from Svolvær, Norway showing characteristic long, broad, fingered wings, heavy bill and short wedge-shaped tail

The Ugaritic script is a cuneiform ( wedge-shaped ) abjad used from around either the fifteenth century BCE or 1300 BCE for Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language, and discovered in Ugarit ( modern Ras Shamra ), Syria, in 1928.

As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the name " Flatiron " derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.

Magmatism in island arc regions ( i. e., active oceanic margins ) comes from the interplay of the subducting plate and the mantle wedge, the wedge-shaped region between the subducting and overriding plates.

Many audiophiles aspired to but could not afford a Nakamichi 1000 or 700 ( whose model number was derived from the list price ), so Nakamichi came out with more economical two-head models such as the Nakamichi 500 and the wedge-shaped 600.

The wedge-shaped head and lack of white in the wings helps to distinguish female Surf Scoters from female Velvet Scoters.

Apart from its greater size, the Common Raven differs from its cousins, the crows, by having a larger and heavier, black beak, shaggy feathers around the throat and above the beak, and a wedge-shaped tail.

It discarded a number of the less important features of the earlier product — the network and joystick ports, the inhibit button and the pass-through connector — and replaced its ancestor's plastic wedge-shaped design which fit under the Spectrum with a simple flat metal slab which protruded from the rear of the computer.

Residential functions would grow in wedge-shaped patterns with a sector of low-income housing bordering manufacturing / industrial sectors ( traffic, noise, and pollution makes these areas the least desirable ) while sectors of middle-and high-income households were located furthest away from these functions.

This species differs considerably from the pink sundew, Drosera capillaris, by its wedge-shaped leaves, and distinctly deeper red to reddish purple color, noticeable when side by side with D. capillaris.

The species ’ common name is derived from the large wedge-shaped tail, which may help the species glide.