Pei's design placed the rigid shoebox at an angle to the surrounding street grid, connected at the north end to a long rectangular office building, and cut through the middle with an assortment of circles and cones.

The two tapered ends ( typically long ) are rigid and straight, allowing for easy knitting ; however, the two ends are connected by a flexible strand ( usually nylon ) that allows the two ends to be brought together.

The rigid nature of the folder protects the photo from slumping or creasing, as long as the box is not packed too tightly or under filled.

This helps prevent injury as long as the body is neither rigid nor tense.

The supporting structure of a roof usually comprises beams that are long and of strong, fairly rigid material such as timber, and since the mid-19th century, cast iron or steel.

The regularity of the macromolecular structure influences the degree to which it has rigid, crystalline long range order or flexible, amorphous long range disorder.

A " flatter " parabolic dish with a long focal length would require an impractically elaborate support structure to hold the feed rigid with respect to the dish.

Scientists have long been growing cells in natural and synthetic matrix environments to elicit phenotypes that are not expressed on conventionally rigid substrates.

When the disguised Odysseus returns, she announces in her long interview with the disguised hero that whoever can string Odysseus's rigid bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe shafts may have her hand.

A " transporter " was a reusable container, long, wide, and high, made of rigid steel with a carrying capacity of 9, 000 pounds.

A rigid bar beneath the center of the instrument is pressed upward by an adjustable spring, and engages a long felt pad against the sharps and the naturals.

Poaching, like smuggling, has a long counter-cultural history, dispassionately reported for England in " Pleas of the Forest ", transgressions of the rigid Anglo-Norman Forest Law.

Instead of cutting, long swords were then used more to thrust against opponents in plate armour, requiring a more acute point and a more rigid blade.

These directories are sometimes criticized due to long delays in approving submissions, or for rigid organizational structures and disputes among volunteer editors.

These included making telescopes rigid enough so they wouldn ’ t sag out of focus during the exposure, building clock drives that could rotate the telescope mount at a constant rate, and developing ways to accurately keep a telescope aimed at a fixed point over a long period of time.

The boundary between the lithosphere and the underlying asthenosphere is defined by a difference in response to stress: the lithosphere remains rigid for very long periods of geologic time in which it deforms elastically and through brittle failure, while the asthenosphere deforms viscously and accommodates strain through plastic deformation.

A marlin, family Istiophoridae, is a fish with an elongated body, a spear-like snout or bill, and a long rigid dorsal fin, which extends forward to form a crest.

In 1860, French economist Clement Juglar identified the presence of economic cycles 8 to 11 years long, although he was cautious not to claim any rigid regularity.

The two tapered ends ( typically long ) are rigid and straight, allowing for easy knitting, and are connected by a flexible strand ( usually nylon ) that allows the two ends to be brought together.

The prize was claimed by George Smart, for what in effect, was a brush head on a long segmented cane, made rigid by an adjustable cord that passed though the canes.

As long as the hot-swap connector is sufficiently rigid, one of the four corner pins will always be the first to engage.

Rather than using samples and following a rigid protocol ( strict set of rules ) to examine limited number of variables, case study methods involve an in-depth, longitudinal ( over a long period of time ) examination of a single instance or event: a case.

Though Porter had a fundamental rationalisation in his concept about the invalidity of hybrid business strategy, the highly volatile and turbulent market conditions will not permit survival of rigid business strategies since long term establishment will depend on the agility and the quick responsiveness towards market and environmental conditions.

They have long decurved bills, and long rigid tail feathers that provide support as they creep up tree trunks looking for insects.

** JK Unlimited: The long wheelbase, 4-door version of the 2007 Wrangler.

The Dodge Sportsman added a plug to the rear of a long wheelbase to create the 15 passenger van.

A new series 402 with a long wheelbase chassis ( instead of ) also became available.

The 435 was characterized by a long wheelbase of, or.

( The letter L stands for a long wheelbase, because most models are available in two wheelbase variants.

* Truck Utility Medium, British Army designation for the long wheelbase variant of the Land Rover Wolf

No. 3 became the first new locomotive to travel on the railway for over 80 years in 1951, but it frequently derailed, and on inspection it turned out that the Talyllyn track was laid approximately half an inch ( 13 mm ) wider than the official gauge, a deliberate policy by the old company to accommodate the long wheelbase of Talyllyn.

These TGV-derived components are the traction system derived from third-generation TGV trainsets ( including the four asynchronous AC motors per power car, rectifiers, inverters, and regenerative braking technology ), the structure of the trucks / bogies ( with a long wheelbase dual transom H frame welded steel with outboard mounted tapered roller bearings ), the brake discs ( although there are only three per axle, versus four on the TGV ), and the crash energy management techniques to control structural deformations in the event of an accident.

It has a very long wheelbase, with the additional space behind the rider, for more space on the rear luggage rack, and strong frame and wheels to carry more weight on and around the rear wheel.

It is also more stable due to its long wheelbase.

* 1973-The 300, 000th Land Cruiser was sold worldwide. The first diesel Land Cruiser was introduced for export on long wheelbase models with a six-cylinder H engine

Most are long wheelbase 0-8-0 locomotives that use an articulation technique incorporating a geared drive to the outer-most axles, the inner pair being direct-drive.

Chrysler followed with a long wheelbase ( LWB ) model, the Grand Caravan in 1987, also based on the Chrysler S platform.

Beginning with Generation V in model year 2008, Chrysler only made the long wheelbase Grand Caravan.

The standard saloon weighed almost two tons, was 16 ft 9 inches long and 6 feet 1¼ inches wide on a 10-foot 1¼-inch ( the short ) wheelbase.

The old-style long wheelbase Austin Princess saloon and limousine version scarcely changed at all.

The long wheelbase Princess saloon and limousine continued to be built by hand in limited numbers as the Vanden Plas 4-Litre Princess Limousine, until 1968.

It had a 145 in ( 3683 mm ) wheelbase ( long for the era ) and 36 × 4½-inch ( 91 × 11. 4 cm ) front / 37 × 5-inch ( 94 × 12. 7 cm ) rear wheels ( which would interchange front and rear ) and full-elliptic front and ¾-elliptic springs.

Other Falcon based models developed by Ford Australia, but no longer in production, are the Ford Futura, Ford Fairmont and Ford Landau, as well as the long wheelbase Ford Fairlane and Ford LTD.

To make the bikes sufficiently robust, comfortable and capable of carrying heavy loads, special features may include a long wheelbase ( for ride comfort and to avoid pedal-to-luggage conflicts ), frame materials that favor flexibility over rigidity ( for ride comfort ), heavy duty wheels ( for load capacity ), and multiple mounting points ( for luggage racks, fenders, and bottle cages ).

The more expensive all-wheel drive version was produced first, followed by the long wheelbase ESV and EXT pickup ( the latter sourced from the Silao, Mexico, plant ) in June.

The Phaeton will have two different versions: a normal wheelbase and long wheelbase.