In the Timaeus, Plato's major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid he associated with fire was the tetrahedron which is formed from four triangles and contains the least volume with the greatest surface area.

The forge fire in this type of forge is controlled in three ways: amount of air, volume of fuel, and shape of the fuel / fire.

The lower recoil and more generous magazine capacities of small-caliber weapons also allows troops a much greater volume of fire, compared to historical battle rifles.

Even in the hands of conscripted soldiers with minimal training, the volume of fire produced by massed submachine guns could be overwhelming in an urban environment.

RTS games make a habit of giving a vehicle a " health bar " that generally allows it to survive even powerful single shots, but each hit reduces its health by some amount, allowing a high volume of rifle fire to knock out a well armored tank.

When emplaced, the howitzer's high volume of fire compensates in large measure for the lower explosive weight of the projectile compared to the Army's 155mm and 8-inch howitzers.

: I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, nor to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document or other object belonging to it or in its custody ; not to bring into the Library, or kindle therein, any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library ; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library.

But expanding programmes of afforestation, new methods of fire protection, and above all the greatly increased volume of utilisation work that results as soon as the young woods reach the thinning stage, have made it essential, in most of the larger forests, to concentrate the building of new houses in villages or small community groups .’ With houses designed for head foresters, the peak year for all forest tenancies was 1958, with the Commission owning a total of 4627 properties.

By creating a mist, and equal volume of water will create a larger total surface area exposed to the fire.

Portable pneumatic tools and small vehicles such as Robot Wars machines and other hobbyist applications are often powered by compressed carbon dioxide because containers designed to hold it such as soda stream canisters and fire extinguishers are readily available, and the phase change between liquid and gas makes it possible to obtain a larger volume of compressed gas from a lighter container than compressed air would allow.

* Support: Support soldiers provide a high volume of suppressive fire with the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon.

The MG 42 has a proven record of reliability, durability, simplicity, and ease of operation, but is most notable for its ability to produce a stunning volume of suppressive fire.

* Water wells are also sometimes classified as fire hydrants if they can supply enough water volume and pressure.

Shortly after the first emergency declaration, the captain can be heard leaving his seat to fight the fire, which was now spreading to the rear of the cockpit ; the Swissair volume of checklists was later found fused together, as if someone had been trying to use them to fan back flames.

As the volume of fire increased, officers began to agitate for action.

To compensate it was simpler to concentrate the fire of several vehicles onto the target, sacrificing accuracy for sheer volume of firepower.

Mencken relates the fire and its aftermath in the penultimate chapter of Newspaper Days, the second volume of his autobiography.

The Japanese were continually surprised by the heavy, accurate volume of fire they received when attacking Marauder positions.

The volume of smoke was tremendous ; it nearly covered the entire northeastern part of Athens, and all terrestrial televisual media covered the fire.

Semi-automatic weapons can serve both as battle rifle and sniper rifle, and allow for a greater rate ( and hence volume ) of fire.

These rifles enable a higher volume of fire, but sacrifice some long range accuracy.

Owing to the volume of fire brought to bear from the enemy's position by machine-guns and rifles, a dismounted attack would have resulted in a much greater number of casualties.

APRS FireNet is an Internet-based system using the APRS protocol and much of the same client software to provide fire fighting, earthquake, and weather information in much higher volume and detail than the traditional APRS system is capable of carrying.

The classical rule, recognized by Clausius and by Kelvin, is that the pressure exerted by the calorimetric material is fully and rapidly determined solely by its temperature and volume ; this rule is for changes that do not involve phase change, such as melting of ice.

Such a material is of the kind considered in calorimetry, as noted above, that exerts a pressure that is very rapidly determined just by temperature and volume.

Combustion occurs rapidly, and during combustion the volume varies little (" constant volume ").

This feature makes it possible to image moving particles in a volume or to rapidly scan a surface.

Because these changes occur very rapidly they define an upper limit on the volume of a quasar ; quasars are not much larger than the Solar System.

There is evidence suggesting that the empire's rapidly expanding population was geographically mobile on a scale which, in term of its volume and its protracted and routinized nature, was unprecedented in Chinese history.

In particular, it can be seen that the Néel relaxation time is an exponential function of the grain volume, which explains why the flipping probability becomes rapidly negligible for bulk materials or large nanoparticles.

A classical material can usually be described by a function that makes pressure dependent on volume and temperature, the resulting pressure being established much more rapidly than any imposed change of volume or temperature.

* In radio transmission, rapidly changing signal levels, together with variable multipath time delays, caused by reflection and possible partial absorption of the signal by aircraft flying through the radio beam or common scatter volume.

This increase in water volume in the cytoplasm forces the coiled cnidae tubule to eject rapidly.

An active Lightsaber gives off a distinctive hum, which rises in pitch and volume as the blade is moved rapidly through the air.

A timpani roll ( most commonly signaled in a score by tr ) is executed by rapidly striking the drum, alternating between left and right sticks, extending the duration of the sound as required and allowing increases or decreases in volume.

** nonkeratinized stratified squamous epithelium: is rapidly turned over, and serves a protective effect due to the high volume transit of food, saliva and mucus.

While stable under defined storage conditions, they react very rapidly under certain other conditions to produce a large volume of energetic ( hot ) gases for the performance of mechanical work.

Geophilomorphs lose water less rapidly than Lithobiomorphs even though they have a greater surface area to volume ratio.

Therefore, as long as a sufficient volume of air can be rapidly vented from the brake pipe, each car's triple valve will cause an emergency brake application.

According to the indictment against him, Swartz surreptitiously attached a laptop to MIT's computer network, which allowed him to " rapidly download an extraordinary volume of articles from JSTOR ".

Some of these appliances also accept a small volume of oil or melted butter to assist thermal transfer from a stationary heating element, but others are " air poppers " which rapidly circulate heated air up through the interior, keeping the un-popped kernels in motion to avoid burning and then blowing the popped kernels out through the chute.

An ideal PDE design can have a thermodynamic efficiency higher than other designs like turbojets and turbofans because a detonation wave rapidly compresses the mixture and adds heat at constant volume.

* ( b ) contract rapidly and forcibly to force the majority of this blood into the aorta, overcoming the much higher aortic pressure and the extra pressure required to stretch the aorta and other major arteries enough to expand and make room for the sudden increase in blood volume, i. e. systolic contraction and ejection.

With the onset of World War II, the airport developed rapidly in order to handle the large volume of American aircraft ferry traffic.

Because of the high proportion of auto-production costs represented by fixed costs that needed to be allocated over a planned production volume, and the use in the 1960s of investment appraisal criteria that were ill-suited to accounting for volume fluctuations and the rapidly changing value of the UK currency in the 1960s, the precise figures quoted may be open to challenge, but the new management's diagnosis that BMC's profitability was insufficient to fund support and new model investment to cover its disparate range of brands and models was hard to refute.