To each paired vertex and diagonal point there corresponds a unique forward corner point, i.e., the corner on C reached first by proceeding along C from the vertex in the direction of increasing T.

Although this technique is simple and satisfactory, one practical difficulty does exist: the direction of true north must be known for each launch point.

Under Yakov Segal's direction, it begins stirringly, as crouching Soviet and Nazi troops silently scan each other, waiting for the first surrender gesture.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

In 1823, Light had fondly written of the Sicilian city of Catania: " The two principal streets cross each other at right angles in the square in the direction of north and south and east and west.

While only one net lane in each direction was added to the north – south I-93, several new east – west lanes were added to untangle the traffic.

Informally basis vectors are like " building blocks of a vector ", they are added together to make a vector, and the coordinates are the number of basis vectors in each direction.

When LTR text is mixed with RTL in the same paragraph, each type of text is written in its own direction, which is known as bi-directional text.

This method of writing alternates direction, and usually reverses the individual characters, on each successive line.

The stitcher counts the threads in each direction so that the stitches are of uniform size and appearance.

Motorways (, plural ) in Croatia applies to dual carriageway roads with at least two traffic lanes in each driving direction and an emergency lane.

Consequently, each circuit element is assigned a current variable with an arbitrarily chosen reference direction.

Unlike the primary wall, the microfibrils are aligned mostly in the same direction, and with each additional layer the orientation changes slightly.

The addition of extra power and control connections, differential drivers, and data connections in each direction usually means that most serial buses have more conductors than the minimum of one used in 1-Wire and UNI / O.

A single move can consist of multiple hops ; each piece hopped must be directly adjacent, and hops can be in any direction.

He found the entrance to the underworld at Tanaerum, and Athena and Hermes helped him to traverse the entrance in each direction.

# Clockwise rotation breaks the flagella bundle apart such that each flagellum points in a different direction, causing the bacterium to tumble in place.

In that case, each coordinate is obtained by projecting the point onto one axis along a direction that is parallel to the other axis ( or, in general, to the hyperplane defined by all the other axes ).

* Antiphase boundaries occur in ordered alloys: in this case, the crystallographic direction remains the same, but each side of the boundary has an opposite phase: For example, if the ordering is usually ABABABAB, an antiphase boundary takes the form of ABABBABA.

The bridge has three lanes in each direction, and features a separated bike / pedestrian lane on its south-facing side.

The doors can slide in either direction along one axis on parallel overhead tracks, sliding past each other.

While not built to expressway standards, many roads in Addis Ababa and other cities can be considered dual carriageways and have up to four lanes in each direction with hardly any intersections.

James Lind's anemometer of 1775 consisted simply of a glass U tube containing a liquid manometer ( pressure gauge ), with one end bent in a horizontal direction to face the wind and the other vertical end remains parallel to the wind flow.

Slicing involves hitting the shuttlecock with an angled racquet face, causing it to travel in a different direction than suggested by the body or arm movement.

Like other Greek letters, it could face either leftwards or rightwards ( x14pxx14px ), depending on the current writing direction, but just like in Phoenician, the horizontal bars always faced in the direction of writing.

Hands across-right or left hands are given to corners, and dancers move in the direction they face.

The dancers circle in the direction they face.

Players are permitted to play the ball with the flat of the ' face side ' and with the edges of the head and handle of the field hockey stick with the exception that, for reasons of safety, the ball may not be struck ' hard ' with a forehand edge stroke, because of the difficulty of controlling the height and direction of the ball from that stroke.

Mihrab is semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla ; that is, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca and hence the direction that Muslims should face when praying.

For example, in the Myth real-time tactics series, originally created by Bungie Software, players use them to order battlefield units to face in a desired direction.

The vinyl knife is usually shaped like a plotter pen and is mounted on ball-bearings so that the knife edge rotates to face the correct direction as the plotter head moves.

Other purposes include power for spiritual warfare ( the Christian struggles against spiritual enemies and thus requires spiritual power ), power for overflow ( the believer's experience of the presence and power of God in his or her life flows out into the lives of others ), and power for ability ( to follow divine direction, to face persecution, to exercise spiritual gifts for the edification of the church, etc.

The grave is dug perpendicular to the direction of Mecca, and the body is lowered into the grave to rest on its side, with the face turned towards Mecca.

Arrows on the face at the eyes show the direction of gaze.

The porosity of the metallic chamber walls may have to be considered, and the grain direction of the metallic flanges should be parallel to the flange face.

The direction in which they face changes with each successive monarch, a pattern that began with the Stuarts.

The direction in which they face changes with each successive monarch, a pattern that began with the Stuarts, as shown in the table below:

He stated that Obama " recognizes that the challenge is a new face, a new sense of direction, a new definition of America's role in the world.

When flies mate, the male initially flies on top of the female, facing in the same direction, but then turns round to face in the opposite direction.

In some engines, the small end is offset to reduce thrust in the intended rotational direction and the forward face of the piston has been made thinner and lighter to compensate-but when running backwards, this weaker forward face suffers increased mechanical stress it was not designed to resist.

One must also make sure to face the Qiblah ( direction of prayer ), whilst making du ' a.

The Qiblah is the direction that Muslims face while performing salah.