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inclination and planar
The strike is the line of intersection between the planar feature and a horizontal plane, taken according to the right hand convention, and the dip is the magnitude of the inclination, below horizontal, at right angles to strike.

inclination and structure
That is, spiral galaxies tend to be oriented at a high angle of inclination relative to the large-scale structure of the surroundings.
It has been suggested that due to the steepness of the original angle of inclination the structure may have begun to show signs of instability during construction, forcing the builders to adopt a shallower angle to avert the structure's collapse .< ref > History Channel, < cite > Ancient Egypt-Part 3: Greatest Pharaohs 3150 to 1351 BC </ cite >, History Channel, 1996, ISBN This theory appears to be borne out by the fact that the adjacent Red Pyramid, built immediately afterwards by the same Pharaoh, was constructed at an angle of 43 degrees from its base.

inclination and geology
* In geology, the magnetic inclination is the angle made by a compass needle with respect to the horizontal surface of the Earth at a given latitude.
* The word " hades " may be one syllable, being a form of the verb and noun " to hade ", which is a miners ' term for the way that a geologic fault has slipped, or in geology the angle of inclination from the vertical of a vein ( geology ), fault, or lode

inclination and is
If it is assumed that the formula given by Lodge of cosec Af applies, the pressure difference along the major axes can be calculated from the angle of inclination of the major axis, and from this the interfacial tension can be calculated.
The inclination here is to accept a de facto cease-fire in Laos, rather than continue to insist on a verification of the cease-fire by the international control commission before participating in the Geneva conference.
Drag on a flat plate is closer to being linear with the angle of inclination as opposed to acting quadratically at low angles.
Climate ( from Ancient Greek klima, meaning inclination ) is commonly defined as the weather averaged over a long period.
This is even more true of asteroids, since their orbits usually have a greater inclination to the ecliptic than planets.
They believe he is the Son of Man, in that he inherited human nature ( with its inclination to sin ) from his mother, and the Son of God by virtue of his miraculous conception by the power of God.
Obliquity of the ecliptic is a name used by astronomers for the inclination of Earth's equator to the ecliptic, or of Earth's rotation axis to a perpendicular to the ecliptic.
The equinoxes are also the only times when the terminator is inclined 90 ° to the Earth's Equator ( while at solstices, that inclination reaches its minimum of 66. 5 °, corresponding to 90 ° minus Earth's axial tilt ).
In 1563, Elizabeth told an imperial envoy: " If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married ".
Rabbinic Judaism does not believe that the preceding verses refer to what is nowadays described as a homosexual inclination, nor do these verses refer to lesbian sexual activity.
In a speech given in 1986, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, discussed " individuals who express an inclination towards a particular form of physical relationship in which the libidinal gratification is sought with members of one's own gender ".
The earliest use of the phrase is a quote from the Westminster Magazine of 1774: " He had no inclination for a Broomstick-marriage ", the person in question simply stating that he did not want to go through a ceremony that had no legal validity, it having been suggested to him that he would pretend to be marrying by having a French sexton read the marriage service to him and his young bride.
: where θ is the angle of inclination of the normal, and p is the length of the normal.
Through custom or inclination each person pursues a particular trade, but is capable of pursuing any other in the village.
Let a light beam travel down the vertical line TP and bounce off from P. The beam's angle of inclination from the mirror is, so when it bounces off, its angle of inclination must be equal to.
Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.
Here, the term " parallax " is the angle or semi-angle of inclination between two sight-lines to the star.
Orbital eccentricity is represented by segments extending horizontally from perihelion to aphelion ; inclination is shown on the vertical axis.

inclination and measured
The inclination angle is often replaced by the elevation angle measured from the reference plane.
The inclination of orbits of natural or artificial satellites is measured relative to the equatorial plane of the body they orbit if they do so close enough.
Using three orthogonal magnetometers, both azimuth and dip ( inclination ) can be measured.
In celestial mechanics, the longitude of the periapsis ( symbolized ϖ ) of an orbiting body is the longitude ( measured from the point of the vernal equinox ) at which the periapsis ( closest approach to the central body ) would occur if the body's inclination were zero.
Three components are measured at any given point in a wellbore in order to determine its position: the depth of the point along the course of the borehole ( measured depth ), the inclination at the point, and the magnetic azimuth at the point.
It is the first planetary system around a normal star to have mutual inclination between planets measured ( previously the mutual inclination of the planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257 + 12 had been determined by measuring their gravitational interactions ).
The two main orbital elements that are measured with respect to the plane of reference are the inclination and the longitude of the ascending node.
If the inclination is 0, there is no ascending node, so ω is measured from the reference direction.

inclination and by
The eccentricity ( orbit ) | eccentricities of the orbits are represented by segments ( extending from perihelion to aphelion ) with the inclination s represented on the vertical axis.
He had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a " self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame — James Veitch of Inchbonny — a man who was particularly skillful in making telescopes.
* 3 orbital planes, 56 ° inclination, ascending nodes separated by 120 ° longitude ( 9 operational satellites and one active spare per orbital plane )
In order to get agreement with experimental results, Fresnel found that the individual contributions from the secondary waves on the sphere had to be multiplied by a constant, i / λ, and by an additional inclination factor, K ( χ ).
" De Warens, a deist by inclination, was attracted to Catholicism's doctrine of forgiveness of sins.
Latitude was calculated by observing with quadrant or astrolabe the inclination of the sun or of charted stars, but longitude presented no such manifest means of study.
* Orbital simulations by Varadi, Ghil and Runnegar ( 2003 ) provide another, slightly different series for Earth orbit eccentricity, and also a series for orbital inclination.
In the extreme, exemplified by The Feminists, the upshot, according to Ellen Willis, was " unworkable, mechanistic demands for an absolutely random division of labor, taking no account of differences in skill, experience, or even inclination ".
His strong inclination to Germany compelled him to leave the Rector's post in the new political situation created by the events of 1944, when Finland made peace with the Soviet Union.
The use of ( r, θ, φ ) to denote, respectively, radial distance, inclination ( or elevation ), and azimuth, is common practice in physics, and is specified by ISO standard 31-11.
After the latter's early death, his widow, Irene of Athens, as regent for her son, began its restoration, moved thereto by personal inclination and political considerations.
Although he was influenced by French Symbolism, Yeats concentrated on an identifiably Irish content and this inclination was reinforced by his involvement with a new generation of younger and emerging Irish authors.
The topography, or relief, characterized by the inclination of the surface determines the rate of precipitation runoff and rate of formation or erosion of the surface soil profiles.

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