Most cantilever bridges use a pair of continuous spans that extend from opposite sides of the supporting piers to meet at the center of the obstacle the bridge crosses.

Each reference line is called a coordinate axis or just axis of the system, and the point where they meet is its origin, usually at ordered pair ( 0, 0 ).

As the probability that electrons and holes meet together is proportional to the product of their amounts, the product is in steady state nearly constant at a given temperature, providing that there is no significant electric field ( which might " flush " carriers of both types, or move them from neighbour regions containing more of them to meet together ) or externally driven pair generation.

If a pair of twins are born on the day the ship leaves, and one goes on the journey while the other stays on Earth, they will meet again when the traveler is 6 years old and the stay-at-home twin is 10 years old.

The playoffs pair the division winner with the best record against one wild card team, and the other two division winners meet in a one-game playoff.

He is saved by Arthur and, in the film version of events at least, this is how the pair meet.

The pair would meet two more times, Haugen recovering the title in an immediate rematch, but Paz prevailing in a 10-round decision in their rubber match in 1990.

The brothers also meet a pair of women at the Roxbury: Vivica ( Gigi Rice ) and Cambi ( Elisa Donovan ), who see them talking to Zadir and think that the brothers are rich.

Wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry.

The pair are still yet to meet.

The pair are still yet to meet.

The first pair of gill slits meet across the throat, forming a " collar ".

She continues to stalk the pair, despite suffering accidental bodily harm whenever they meet.

The two men would meet three more times, with Tunney successfully defending his regained title in another fifteen round bout and then splitting a pair of no decision battles ( Greb got the nod of two of three local newspapers in the fourth bout while Tunney easily won the fifth, after which, Greb told Tunney that he didn't want to fight him again, as he saw that Tunney was better.

This standard for the eight-pin connector is the USOC-defined pinout, but the outermost pair are then too far apart to meet the electrical requirements of high-speed LAN protocols.

While in Britain the pair were able to meet with Reg Groves and other members of the recently formed Communist League with whom Shachtman had corresponded.

They then meet a pair of English geese, Amelia and Abigail Gabble, who are on a tour of France.

The female hoots back when the pair meet but is more subdued in both her hoot and display.

The pair agreed to meet in a WBC / WBO unification rematch.

They meet another pair of escaping travellers, Aravis, a young Calormene aristocrat, and her talking horse, Hwin.

Before leaving the bar to meet Ransom Stoddard, Liberty Valance wins a hand of poker with two pair -- aces over eights -- known as dead man's hand.

However, the pair get more than they bargained for when first they meet their idol Larry Bird who scolds them for being " fair weather fans " and later end up kidnapping Scott after he wakes up at Jimmy's apartment the next morning.

After 3 ... cxd4, White occasionally plays 4. Qxd4, the Chekhover Variation, intending to meet 4 ... Nc6 with 5. Bb5 Bd7 6. Bxc6, when White hopes that his lead in development compensates for Black's bishop pair.

Savage will possibly meet his end after he has lived to the year 85, 271 A. D. ( as seen in the DC One Million storyline ), when he is sent back in time to 20th century Montevideo, Uruguay, by a pair of doctored time traveling gauntlets, seconds before it is obliterated by a Rocket Red armorsuit carrying a huge nuclear payload, an action that was, ironically, ordered by Savage himself ( Savage was hoping to use the gauntlets to move only through space and arrive at the 853rd century Metropolis ).

An amateur decorator might try her hand at a pair during the long winter evenings, and, by picking up her living room color scheme, add a decorative do-it-yourself note to the room.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.

Instantaneously he would have won an immeasurable moral victory, for if she picked up, say, a pair of her panties, she might just as well lift his shorts lying alongside -- the expenditure of energy was almost the same.

Pond-type larvae often have a pair of balancers, rod-like structures on either side of the head which perhaps prevent the gills from getting clogged up with bottom sediment.

In the first reaction a fluoride ion, F < sup >−</ sup >, gives up an electron pair to boron trifluoride to form the product tetrafluoroborate.

An electron and electron hole ( electron-hole pair ) can recombine giving up their energy to an electron in the conduction band, increasing its energy.

However, as the main cardo ran up the western hill, and the Temple Mount blocked the eastward route of the main decumanus, a second pair of main roads was added ; the secondary cardo ran down the Tyropoeon Valley, and the secondary decumanus ran just to the north of the temple mount.

Two clock ticks make up a slot of 625 µs ; two slots make up a slot pair of 1250 µs.

An average pair of boxing gloves resembles a bloated pair of mittens and are laced up around the wrists.

Young pitched 13 consecutive scoreless innings before he gave up a pair of unearned runs in the final inning.

The function of the vast majority of chlorophyll ( up to several hundred molecules per photosystem ) is to absorb light and transfer that light energy by resonance energy transfer to a specific chlorophyll pair in the reaction center of the photosystems.

According to one pair of scholars, " The actual authorship of the three maxims set up on the Delphian temple may be left uncertain.

Only after being assured they would be placed under house arrest in the home of a Privy Council member did the pair gave themselves up.

" He also made visits to his sister at Headingley, during which he visited the Brontë Parsonage at Haworth, where he was " chiefly impressed by a pair of Charlotte Brontë's cloth-topped boots, very small, with square toes and lacing up at the sides.

" According to writer Philip Norman, when Groucho jokingly pointed his index fingers as if holding a pair of six-shooters, Elton John put up his hands and said, " Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player ," thereby naming the album he had just completed.

Lineker would pair up with Alan Hansen, fellow MOTD pundit to voice the post match comments on the game, with Barry Davies voicing the commentary.

The ordination of a priest occurs before the Anaphora ( Eucharistic Prayer ) in order that he may on the same day take part in the celebration of the Eucharist: During the Great Entrance, the candidate for ordination carries the Aër ( chalice veil ) over his head ( rather than on his shoulder, as a deacon otherwise carries it then ) as a symbol of giving up his diaconate, and comes last in the procession and stands at the end of the pair of lines of the priests.

* Homologous chromosomes, chromosomes in a biological cell that pair up ( synapse ) during meiosis

* Foot hockey or sock hockey is played using a bald tennis ball or rolled up pair of socks and using only the feet.

It was generally considered extinct in the 1920s when a pair turned up in Florida, only to be shot for specimens.

Left and right, forward and backward, and up and down are three pairs of complementary directions, each pair orthogonal to both of the others.

Such hybrids are generally infertile, due to the two different sets of chromosomes being unable to pair up during meiosis.