Not needing to be mobile, coastal artillery used to be much larger than equivalent field artillery pieces, giving them longer range and more destructive power.

Some looms have roller bars that allow the weaver to produce pieces that are longer than the loom.

The rebar had to be cut up before the pieces could be hauled away, and the process took much longer than expected.

In the taxonomies of artillery pieces used by European ( and European-style ) armies in the eighteenth, 19th, and 20th centuries, the howitzer stood between the " gun " ( characterized by a longer barrel, larger propelling charges, smaller shells, higher velocities, and flatter trajectories ) and the " mortar " ( which was meant to fire at even higher angles of ascent and descent ).

Two consecutive pieces will never come in from the same quadrant, and runs of consecutive identical pieces on one row are longer, statistically, than one might think.

At longer ranges, solid shot or the common shell — a hollow cast iron sphere filled with black powder — was used, although with more of a concussive than a fragmentation effect, as the pieces of the shell were very large and sparse in number.

These modified vehicles no longer fulfill that role, having been retired at the end of 2003 and subsequently scrapped or made available as " hard targets " or, in a few cases, as museum pieces.

When rubber is stretched, the " loose pieces of rope " are taut and thus no longer able to oscillate.

Orpheus was not only longer, but more musically adventurous than Offenbach's earlier pieces.

Once the shell clears the barrel, the sabot is no longer needed and falls off in pieces.

To avoid opening the pressure cooker too often while cooking vegetables with varying cooking times, vegetables that take longer to cook can be cut into smaller pieces and vegetables that cook faster can be cut into thicker pieces.

# two longer spiritual theater pieces ( CB 227 and 228 )

He composed longer pieces on a Persian War theme, including Dirge for the Fallen at Thermopylae, Battle at Artemisium and Battle at Salamis but their genres are not clear from the fragmentary remains-the first was labelled by Diodorus Siculus as an encomium but it was probably a hymn and the second was characterized in the Suda as elegiac yet Priscian, in a comment on prosody, indicated that it was composed in lyric meter.

This release saw the band stretch out with longer, more experimental pieces like " Future / Now " and the Sun Ra-influenced " Skunk ( Sonically Speaking )".

This can be especially true ( regarding one-man acts ) with regard to longer pieces of music.

While this technique can take longer for larger pieces it is useful for smaller, more detailed designs and enables shading to be used.

Another was to take longer pieces that failed and cut them into promos or trailers.

Whilst the roads are no longer used in the reserve, pieces of them line most of the length of the pits.

Besides the foregoing, two pieces in the collection called Priapea ( one an epigram and the other a longer piece in iambics ) have been attributed to Tibullus ; but there is little external and no internal evidence of his authorship ( see Hiller in Hermes, xviii.

Although Rush's previous album, Fly by Night, dabbled in longer conceptual pieces such as " By-Tor & the Snow Dog ," such works were the central focus of Caress of Steel.

* three short psalms, or, three pieces of longer psalms ; in the daytime hours it is usual to begin one part of the longest psalm, psalm 119

What can't be exported without prior informed consent is a non-functioning but no longer intact electronic device ( if the component pieces are deemed hazardous ).

Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.

The left shift to a lower resonant frequency increases the volume of some low frequency sounds due to the longer waves propagated by the increased excursion of the hard diaphragm member suspended in the concentric accountic surround.

Travel time is longer during rush hour times due to large volume of traffic.

The amount ionized is small enough for the bubble to remain transparent, allowing volume emission ; surface emission would produce more intense light of longer duration, dependent on wavelength, contradicting experimental results.

It took considerably longer during peak volume periods, such as at weekends and during holidays.

The redesign resulted in a tighter turning radius despite a longer wheelbase, and a doubling of the front compartment's cargo volume.

The initials of the encyclopedia's contributors appear at the end of selected articles, or at the end of a section in the case of longer articles, such as that on China, and a key is given in each volume to these initials.

A section across the longer axis results in a low dome, capping the volume.

As demand for domain name registrations grew, it became clear that a voluntary group could no longer cope with the volume of registrations being requested.

These signs occur sooner in adults, whose skulls are no longer able to expand to accommodate the increasing fluid volume within.

Higher efficiency can be achieved in longer barrel firearms because they have better volume ratio.

The idea is that it will not matter if a legitimate mail takes a little longer to deliver, but due to the high volume, it will make a difference for spammers.

" De Heredia wrote very little, and published even less, but his sonnets were circulated in manuscript form, and gave him a reputation before they were published during 1893, together with a few longer poems, as a volume, with the title Les Trophées.

The takeover meant that, for the first time in 112 years, the United Kingdom no longer had a British-owned volume car maker.

However, as of Mac OS X v10. 5, it is no longer possible to install Mac OS X " Leopard " on a UFS-formatted volume.

During this time, Fender also tackled the problems experienced by players of the acoustic double bass, who could no longer compete for volume with the other musicians.

Spare part lifetimes are price-driven due to increasing production costs: when the parts no longer can be supplied through a high volume production site ( often closed when series production ends ), the cost increases.

These included upgraded seeker hardware and software to provide improved performance against advanced threats and replacement of the longitudinally mounted electronics boards with a circular design which reduced the volume occupied by the electronics allowing space for a longer rocket motor.

When using a power attenuator with a tube amplifier, the master volume no longer acts as the master volume control.

The combined Nash and Hudson production volume was not sufficient to justify all new design and tooling, so the Rambler's platform was expected to be adopted to the longer cars.

Loutit and Patrick L. Mollison of acid-citrate-dextrose ( ACD ) solution, which reduces the volume of anticoagulant, permitted transfusions of greater volumes of blood and allowed longer term storage.

' In contrast, a poignant scene in volume nine sees Hob weeping next to the grave of the latest of his wives to die: ' I thought we'd have longer.

While other scholars had also treated the Talmud as a multi-layered work, Halivni's innovation ( primarily in the second volume of his Mekorot u-Mesorot ) was to distinguish between the onymous statements, which are generally succinct Halachic rulings or inquiries attributed to known Amoraim, and the anonymous statements, characterised by a much longer analysis often consisting of lengthy dialectic discussion, which he attributed to the later authors-" Stamma ' im " ( or Savora ' im ).