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circular and tower
This is a building with circular tower and doors facing the cardinal directions.
Largely complete by 1230, the castle was of typical Norman courtyard design, with a central square without a keep, bounded on all sides by tall defensive walls and protected at each corner by a circular tower.
Pei's design was based on a circular tower with concentric rings.
A new design was unveiled, combining a large square glass-enclosed atrium with a triangular tower and a circular walkway.
Constructed from large blocks of light-coloured stone, the tower was made up of three stages: a lower square section with a central core, a middle octagonal section, and, at the top, a circular section.
Behind the entrance to the hall is the circular main tower.
On the fifth floor of the circular tower is a room designed for playing rackets, which is approached by a stone spiral staircase.
Part of the medieval city walls is still visible in Piazza Fiera, along with a circular tower.
At the strategically important junction of the two arms of the Old Rhine stands the old castle de Burcht, a circular tower built on an earthen mound.
The four-level tower tapers at each stage with clasping buttresses on the three lower levels and circular buttresses on the fourth stage.
The castle's plan, circular floor with circular towers attached to it seems to have been inspired by the upper complex of the Herodion in the West Bank, which is also circular and has as well a large principal tower and three minor towers.
An open fire was lit at the top of a circular stone tower.
Restormel Castle is a classic example of this development with a perfectly circular wall and a square entrance tower while the later Launceston Castle, although more ovoid than circular, is another good example of the design and one of the most formidable castles of the period.
Largely complete by 1230, the castle was of typical Norman courtyard design, with a central square without a keep, bounded on all sides by tall defensive walls and protected at each corner by a circular tower.
At San Martino ( now San Martino della Battaglia ) there is a circular tower dominating the area, a memorial to Victor Emmanuel II.
Built in 1811 to the design of Daniel Alexander, it is a circular white tower with lighthouse keepers ' cottages to the rear.
The " His Master's Voice " logo as rendered in immense circular leaded-glass panels remains in the 1915 factory building tower, now converted to apartments.
The oldest known may be the circular stone tower in walls of Neolithic Jericho ( 8000 BC ).
Constructed from granite, it stands high and is a circular tower with straight sides.
The circular stone tower is 55ft high and still contains the original lantern complete with fresnel lens manufactured by Chance Brothers, using a mercury bath as a low-friction bearing.
It has a combination bell tower and hose tower, yellow and red brickwork, semi-circular wood windows, and a circular wood window in the gable end at the tower.

circular and at
The pilot plant was a circular lagoon 81 ft in diam at the surface and 65 ft in diam at the bottom, 4 ft below the surface, with a volume of 121,000 Aj.
On March 2, the circular formally filing the organization and capitalization ( at $ 1, 400, 000, 000 — 4 % of U. S. national wealth at the time ) of the United States Steel Corporation actually completed the contract.
If the pencil with the angle u2 is that of the maximum aberration of all the pencils transmitted, then in a plane perpendicular to the axis at O ' 1 there is a circular disk of confusion of radius O ' 1R, and in a parallel plane at O ' 2 another one of radius O ' 2R2 ; between these two is situated the disk of least confusion.
The quadrangle at the centre of Smirke's design proved to be a waste of valuable space and was filled at Panizzi's request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke.
* The reinforce: This portion of the piece is frequently divided into a first reinforce and a second reinforce, but in any case is marked as separate from the chase by the presence of a narrow circular reinforce ring or band at its foremost end.
The image at right shows the vector relationships for uniform circular motion.
The upper panel in the image at right shows a ball in circular motion on a banked curve.
On the other hand, at velocity | v | on a circular path of radius R, kinematics says that the force needed to turn the ball continuously into the turn is the radially inward centripetal force F < sub > c </ sub > of magnitude:
Using these coordinates, the motion along the path is viewed as a succession of circular paths of ever-changing center, and at each position s constitutes non-uniform circular motion at that position with radius ρ.
The Tholos at the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia is a circular building that was constructed between 380 and 360 BC.
Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or rely upon primitive notions.
Computer generated light diffraction pattern from a circular aperture of diameter 0. 5 micrometre at a wavelength of 0. 6 micrometre ( red-light ) at distances of 0. 1 cm – 1 cm in steps of 0. 1 cm.
Hume argued that it requires inductive reasoning to arrive at the premises for the principle of inductive reasoning, and therefore the justification for inductive reasoning is a circular argument.
In Die Austernprinzessin ( The Oyster Princess ) a triple layer of horizontal rectangles with rounded ends enclose sets of dancing feet at the frenzied peak of a foxtrot, and in Die Puppe ( The Doll ) a dozen gossiping mouths are each enclosed in individual small circular vignettes arranged in a matrix.
At the end of 2003, GCHQ moved to a new circular HQ ( popularly known as ' the Doughnut '): at the time, it was the second-largest public-sector building project in Europe, with an estimated cost of £ 337 million.
However, Guarducci also states that in 1950 an ancient image of Mary at the Church of Santa Francesca Romana was determined to be a very exact, but reverse mirror image of the original circular icon that was made in the 5th century and brought to Rome, where it has remained until the present.

circular and north-west
Arnold is surrounded by a circular ridge from the north-west around to the south-east, and raised ground to the west.
Today the site forms a circular earthwork, 27. 47 m across and 2. 74 m high, with a ditch on the north-west and south-east sides, on the top of a ridge, overloking a brook which runs into the River Cary and the old Roman road of the Fosse Way.
Most of these are likely to be no more than collections of stones cleared by local farmers ; but just north-west of Arthur's Stone three prominent cairns have been excavated that prove their ancient role-the largest being Great Cairn, a circular heap of stones above a central grave.

circular and corner
All excavated boards have the angular V-shaped marks at the corners and L-shaped marks at the center of the edges, as well as the central square and T-shaped protrusions, and most boards also have four marks ( usually circular but sometimes a decorative pattern ) between the corner mark and the central square.
However, on some boards each circular mark is replaced by a straight line joining the corner mark to the corner of the inner square, and in a few cases there is no mark between the corner and the square at all.
However it is famous for its central pillar, which has a square base and an octagonal shaft, both carved with bands of geometric and floral designs, further its thirty-six serpentine brackets support a circular platform for Akbar, which is connected to each corner of the building on the first floor, by four stone walkways.
The central island was the site of the main structure of the castle, comprising a retaining wall ( the middle ward ) with gatehouses east and west, and an inner ward with east and west gatehouses and circular corner towers.
It was a symbol of Norman occupation and in its original thirteenth-century condition it would have formed an important element of the defences of the town with four large circular corner towers and a massive ditch, part of which can still be seen today on the Parade.
Located on a rocky shoal at the northwest corner of the island, it was a circular fortification featuring a pioneering new design that could project a 220 degree circular arc of cannon fire from a three levels of casemates ( bomb-proof rooms holding two cannons each ) from 103 cannons on its three levels and roof.
: A: put them in a circular room and tell them to sit in a corner.
At each corner of this square stands a gigantic pier, connected with immense arches each with 15 large windows and four circular ones, flooding the interior with light.
Located in the bottom-right corner of the screen, the circular " hit and run " meter fills up when the character runs people over or destroys objects, and it will decrease when they cease doing so.
In 1924, 20 meters from the Propylon and at the south corner of the Platea architectural blocks from an eight columned circular building were unearthed.
This included the introduction of the circular corner turrets adorned by corbels, most of which have survived remarkably well.
The result, illustrated initially at Yonne, and later at Château de Farcheville, produced a characteristic quadrangular layout, four large, circular corner towers, but lacked a keep, which was not needed to support this design.
An interesting feature is the presence of circular corner cells.
It comprises a square, four-storey main block, with narrow circular towers at each corner.
The tower's south-west side blew down in a storm in the early 18th century, but the remaining sections can be accessed via the circular staircase built into one corner of the tower.
In the Northeast corner of the complex, four circular stone-covered mounds are arranged in a square.
The rim of Harding has a sharp edge, and is not quite circular, with slight outward bulges to the north and west, and a somewhat angular corner in the southeast.
Edward's castle was four-sided, with circular towers at each corner, guarded by a gatehouse and a barbican.
Daniel Campbell the Younger initiated the construction of the village in 1770, just after the completion of the Kilarrow Parish Church, which was built in a circular shape to prevent the devil from hiding in a corner.

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