Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

A mirror is mounted on each accelerometer so that the plane of the mirror is perpendicular to the sensitive axis of the unit.

With the transit set up, a mirror on one of the accelerometers is sighted and the platform is turned until it is aligned.

The sighting procedure includes the use of a fixture for the transit to project a beam of light, which is darkened by crossed hairs, on the accelerometer mirror.

He rose slowly and looked into the mirror on the inside of the closet door.

He compiled a survey of mirror configurations in his work on remarkable mechanical devices which was known to Arab mathematicians such as Ibn al-Haytham.

In addition to the balancing described above for insertions, if the balance factor for the tree is 2 and that of the left subtree is 0, a right rotation must be performed on P. The mirror of this case is also necessary.

An allene with two different substituents on each of the two carbons will be chiral because there will no longer be any mirror planes.

However, an episode of Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections relating to the Keck Observatory ( whose reflector glass is based on the Archimedes ' Mirror ) did successfully use a much smaller curved mirror to burn a wooden model, though not made of the same quality of materials as in the MythBusters effort.

Hole card games are sometimes played on tables with a small mirror or electronic sensor which are used to peek securely at the hole card.

The classic example involves placing a spot of coloring on the skin or fur near the individual's forehead and seeing if they attempt to remove it or at least touch the spot, thus indicating that they recognize that the individual they are seeing in the mirror is themselves.

After a short configuration process and mirror selection, it uses tools available on the user's computer to automatically download, unpack, compile, test, and install modules.

This is because a plane wave incident on a circular lens or mirror is diffracted as described above.

The expansion slot is essentially a mirror image of the cartridge slot on the top of the unit, with the same electrical connections, thus the Nintendo 64 reads data from the Doctor V64 in the same manner as it would from a cartridge plugged into the normal slot.

An example of such indeterminacy can be seen when a beam of light is incident on a half-silvered mirror.

* Hercle and Menerva on an Etruscan mirror from Città di Castello, c 300 B. C.

Unmarried women were told that if they sat in a darkened room and gazed into a mirror on Halloween night, the face of their future husband would appear in the mirror.

The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope on the facilities is the largest solar telescope in the world and the largest unobstructed reflector ( it doesn't have a secondary mirror in the path of incoming light ).

Dissecting a Klein bottle into halves along its plane of symmetry results in two mirror image Möbius strips, i. e. one with a left-handed half-twist and the other with a right-handed half-twist ( one of these is pictured on the right ).

Laser radiation output through the front mirror can be seen to produce a tiny ( about 1mm in diameter ) intense spot on the screen, to the right.

Knowing the distance to the mirror, the number of teeth on the wheel, and the rate of rotation, Fizeau was able to calculate the speed of light as 313, 000, 000 m / s.

Jacques Lacan, inspired by Heidegger and Saussure, built on Freud's psychoanalytic model of the subject, in which the " split subject " is constituted by a double bind: alienated from jouissance when he or she leaves the Real, enters into the Imaginary ( during the mirror stage ), and separates from the Other when he or she comes into the realm of language, difference, and demand in the Symbolic or the Name of the Father.

Parabolic mirrors were also described by the physicist Ibn Sahl in the 10th century, and Ibn al-Haytham discussed concave and convex mirrors in both cylindrical and spherical geometries, carried out a number of experiments with mirrors, and solved the problem of finding the point on a convex mirror at which a ray coming from one point is reflected to another point.

* In the European fairy tale, " Snow White " ( collected by Brothers Grimm in 1812 ), the evil queen asks, " Mirror, mirror, on the wall ... who's the fairest of them all?

Skeptics such as Milbourne Christopher have found that some cases of poltergeist activity can be attributed to unusual air currents, such as a 1957 case on Cape Cod where downdrafts from an uncovered chimney became strong enough to blow a mirror off of a wall and knock things off shelves.

Another interpretation is that the portrait is in fact a mirror, and that the painting itself is in the perspective of the King and Queen, hence their reflection can be seen in the mirror on the back wall.

The man – and the camera following him from behind – survey its contents: a dog and a cat share a basket, a caged parrot and a goldfish in its bowl sit atop a small table ; the walls are bare apart from a mirror and an unframed picture of “ the face of God the Father ” pinned to the wall ; there is a couch with a pillow, some blankets and a rug on it, a rocking chair with a “ curiously carved headrest ” and there is a window with a tattered roller blind with full-length net curtains to either side.

This time E whirls round to the right, passing the window, the mirror, the birdcage and fishbowl and finally stops in front of the space on the wall where the picture was.

Alongside each interior wall of the trano masina were a mirror, bed, several chairs and a table upon which were placed two porcelain water vessels and one bottle each of water and rum that were replenished annually during the fandroana ( festival of the royal bath ).

The new Queen possesses a mirror, an animate object that answers any question, to whom she often asks: " Magic mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all?

Some intermittent sparking had occurred and we asked the technician to observe with a mirror around the protective concrete wall.

A mirror on the back wall reflects the upper bodies and heads of two figures identified from other paintings, and by Palomino, as King Philip IV ( 10 ) and his queen, Mariana ( 11 ).

Detail of the mirror hung on the back wall, showing the reflected images of Philip IV of Spain | Philip IV and his queen Mariana of Austria

Jonathan Miller points out that apart from " adding suggestive gleams at the bevelled edges, the most important way the mirror betrays its identity is by disclosing imagery whose brightness is so inconsistent with the dimness of the surrounding wall that it can only have been borrowed, by reflection, from the strongly illuminated figures of the King and Queen ".

The mirror on the back wall indicates what is not there: the king and queen, and in the words of Harriet Stone, " the generations of spectators who assume the couple's place before the painting ".

In Las Meninas, the king and queen are supposedly " outside " the painting, yet their reflection in the back wall mirror also places them " inside " the pictorial space.

The smaller image may be a view to another room, a picture on the wall, or a reflection in a mirror.

In the early Christ in the House of Martha and Mary of 1618, Christ and his companions are seen only through a serving hatch to a room behind, according to the National Gallery ( London ), who are clear that this is the intention, although before restoration many art historians regarded this scene as either a painting hanging on the wall in the main scene, or a reflection in a mirror, and the debate has continued.

At the climax of the film, Kelly finds a larger wall mirror, and begins to draw the Father's hand through it as most of the group are immobilized by fights with the other possessed members.

Semi-detached housing ( often abbreviated to semi in the UK, Canada and Australia, as in " three-bedroom semi ", and occasionally referred to as se-tenant houses ) consists of pairs of houses built side by side as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin.

The title is an allusion to the phrase spoken by the Witch in the fairy tale " Snow White and the Seven Dwarves " by the Brothers Grimm --" Mirror, mirror on the wall / Who in the land is fairest of all?

The mosaic pattern adorns the west wall, and has the kalimah written in early Kufic script, repeated in mirror image pattern.

The wounded Anastasia allegedly lunged at his killers, but only hit their reflections in the wall mirror.

The chamber wall could be rotated to force new powders into remote collection vessels, and the electrode could be replaced by a solar mirror focused at the end of the rod.

In the fairytale of Snow White, the jealous queen consults a magic mirror, which she asks " Magic mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all?