Terrazzo consists of marble or other stone aggregate set in mortar and ground and polished to a smooth surface.

Beriberi may be found in people whose diet consists mainly of polished white rice, which is very low in thiamine because the thiamin-bearing husk has been removed.

Using polished pebbles as the boundary, the family consists of Regular, Positive, Negative fonts.

There were extensive gardens and a lot of money was spent on them: The house itself consists of sixty rooms, and the sum of, we understand £ 20, 000 in round numbers, has been expended so far upon the building ,-Upon entering the grand hall, through the massive oaken doorway, replete with medieval decorations, the visitor finds that ‘ The Priory ’ has been erected in a style of magnificence not very generally met with – it is floored en mosaique, in walnut and oak ; the peculiar grotesque spirit of the Gothic style is not permitted to run riot through the rich oak carving, while that more beautiful element, tracery enters largely into the interior ornamentation – the oak painted ceiling richly stuccoed and the polished armour shields an banners that hang around with the erect figures in full suits of armour ; the wide staircase in massive oak – the great doorways leading to the drawing – room at one side and to the library at the other – the rich and mellow light that comes through the beautiful stained glass window that forms the upper portion of the Gothic entrance, and through the lancet shaped sashes – all this bespeak a profuse liberality and taste of order.

The STARSHINE satellite consists of an inert, hollow sphere covered by 1, 000 evenly-distributed, flat, polished mirrors, each 1 inch in diameter.

A Michelson interferometer consists of two highly polished mirrors M < sub > 1 </ sub > & M < sub > 2 </ sub >.

The sculpture consists of a 16-foot long polished stainless steel ribbon placed atop a granite tower.

In its original configuration, it consists of a heavy base, two straight polished aluminum arm sections ( each approximately 45 cm long ), and a matte aluminum reflector head which can swivel 360 °.

In chemistry, a coordination complex or metal complex, consists of an atom or ion ( usually metallic ), and a surrounding array of bound molecules or anions, that are in turn known as ligands or complexing agents.

The cat ’ s whisker diode consists of a thin or sharpened metal wire pressed against a semiconducting crystal, typically galena or a piece of coal.

Conceptually, it consists of two conducting plates separated by a thin insulating dielectric layer ; in practice, thin metal foils are coiled together, increasing the surface area per unit volume and therefore the capacitance.

A typical design consists of a glass jar with conducting metal foil coating the inner and outer surfaces.

It consists of a heavy blade mounted atop a wooden or metal pole with a pointed metal counter weight used for striking and stabbing on the opposite end.

Track usually consists of steel rails installed on sleepers / ties and ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves.

The weapon consists of three barrels arranged in a triangle, with metal rings around the barrels.

Smelting therefore consists of using suitable reducing substances that will combine with those oxidizing elements to free the metal.

A buben consists of a wooden or metal hoop with a tight membrane stretched over one of its sides ( some bubens have no membrane at all ).

The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas which sense the position of the player's hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude ( volume ) with the other, so it can be played without being touched.

A thermocouple consists of two conductors of different materials ( usually metal alloys ) that produce a voltage in the vicinity of the point where the two conductors are in contact.

Solid wire, also called solid-core or single-strand wire, consists of one piece of metal wire.

A mace typically consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, featuring a head made of stone, copper, bronze, iron, or steel.

In modern bobsleighs, the steering system consists of two metal rings that actuate a pulley system located in the forward cowling that turns the front runners.

In order to direct the x-rays onto the pellet the target consists of a cylindrical metal capsule with the wiring and fuel within.

A simple corner reflector consists of three conducting sheet metal or screen surfaces at 90 ° angles to each other, attached to one another at the edges, forming a " corner ".

A simple calorimeter just consists of a thermometer attached to a metal container full of water suspended above a combustion chamber.

* Rope ( originally represented by a natural fibre coiled piece of string, the standard edition now consists of molded plastic or metal )

It traditionally consists of a cylindrical metal ( typically steel ) bar that is rigidly held above and parallel to the floor by a system of cables and stiff vertical supports.

A simple Van de Graaff-generator consists of a belt of silk, or a similar flexible dielectric material, running over two metal pulleys, one of which is surrounded by a hollow metal sphere.

The focal-plane shutter operates as close to the film plane as possible and consists of cloth curtains that are pulled across the film plane with a carefully determined gap between the two curtains ( typically running horizontally ) or consisting of a series of metal plates ( typically moving vertically ) just in front of the film plane.

The speculum consists of two hinged blades of concave metal or plastic which are used to retract the tissues of the vagina and permit examination of the cervix, the lower part of the uterus located within the upper portion of the vagina.

In the most narrow sense, a sword consists of a straight blade with two edges and a hilt.

The sword consists of the blade and the hilt.

The hilt consists of a round pommel, a flat grip and an arched crossguard.

This consists of 25 individual registries, two of which were added during fiscal years 1959-1960 ( The Registry Of Forensic Pathology and The Testicular Tumor Registry ).

The drill press consists of a vertical shaft ( spindle ) which is tapered or threaded on one end to hold a drill chuck, a tubular housing ( quill ) in which the spindle is mounted, a head in which the quill is mounted, a feed lever which moves the quill up or down, a power source, and a movable table upon which the work is placed.

Poster Products Inc., Chicago, Ill.: a changeable copy and display sign which consists of an extruded impact styrene background in choice of colors, onto which are mounted snap-in letters, figures, or words screened on acetate or other types of sheet stock.

The washing process whereby soils are removed consists basically of applying mechanical action to loosen the dirt particles and dried matter in the presence of water which helps to float off the debris and acts, to some extent, as a dissolving and solvating agent.

We now observe that the case in which **zg is a Af curve on a quadric is impossible if the complex of singular lines consists exclusively of the lines which meet Aj.

Continuing with the case in which **zg is a Af curve on a quadric Q, we first observe that the second regulus of Q consists precisely of the lines which join the two free intersections of **zg and the planes through any one of the multiple secants.

The instrument is shown in Fig. 1 and consists essentially of a hard, sharp, tungsten carbide knife which is pushed along the substrate to remove the coating.

It consists of a series of pipes and a pressure-measuring chamber which record the rise and fall of the water surface.

The hardware consists primarily of a standard MOS 6502 CPU, which executes the game program, and the Digital Vector Generator ( DVG ), vector processing circuitry developed by Atari themselves.

The axon initial segment ( AIS ) consists of a specialised complex of proteins which form part of the proximal axon of a neuron.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

Problems and Solutions ( Quaestiones ) consists of three books which, although termed " problems and solutions of physical questions ," treat of subjects which are not all physical, and are not all problems.

The first string has a short English-language description, namely " ab 32 times ", which consists of 11 characters.

Each chipset consists of several coprocessors which handle graphics acceleration, digital audio, direct memory access and communication between various peripherals ( e. g., CPU, memory and floppy disks ).

The fundamental unit of the aorta is the elastic lamella, which consists of smooth muscle and elastic matrix.

Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the human world.

Hogarth, for example, thinks that beauty consists of ( 1 ) fitness of the parts to some design ; ( 2 ) variety in as many ways as possible ; ( 3 ) uniformity, regularity or symmetry, which is only beautiful when it helps to preserve the character of fitness ; ( 4 ) simplicity or distinctness, which gives pleasure not in itself, but through its enabling the eye to enjoy variety with ease ; ( 5 ) intricacy, which provides employment for our active energies, leading the eye on " a wanton kind of chase "; and ( 6 ) quantity or magnitude, which draws our attention and produces admiration and awe.