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walls and defining
There are many examples of stationary non-equilibrium systems, some very simple, like a system confined between two thermostats at different temperatures or the ordinary Couette flow, a fluid enclosed between two flat walls moving in opposite directions and defining non-equilibrium conditions at the walls.
The final lift was completed on 20 December 2003, with final defining of the chamber walls and backfilling continuing for three days after.
A defining feature of the restaurant's brand has been the tradition of caricatures covering the walls.
** Any black circle along the outer border or one cell from the outer border must have a segment leading away from the border ( and those sufficiently near a corner must lead from both walls, defining the loop's path through the circle );
Its defining features are the pit lane in the middle of the road with no cover and the ' pinball walls ', similar to those found on Coffin Run, along the entire length.

walls and enclosures
Outside plant applications may involve locating connectors underground in subsurface enclosures that may be subject to flooding, on outdoor walls, or on utility poles.
Military forts in the American Old West during the Indian Wars were often lightly fortified enclosures with log or adobe walls.
* City walls: three walled enclosures dating back to the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
At the same site, an archaeologist might identify features such as stone walls surrounding enclosures arrayed in a pattern, and deep, layered middens with concentrations of domesticated animal remains such as goats or pigs.
It is an irregular rectangular plan consisting of two enclosures: the exterior, lower level faces upstream with a traitors ' gate, and walls reinforced by nine tall circular towers ; and the interior enclosure, located in a higher elevation, whose walls are accessible by main gate to the main keep.
Each fang ( 坊 ) was enclosed by walls or fences, and the gates of these enclosures were shut and guarded every night, somewhat like a modern gated community.
The eastern, northern and western walls are occupied by double-arch enclosures, with the north-east and north-west corners occupied by statutes of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the archangel Michael in niches.
Glaziers also install aluminum storefront frames and entrances, glass handrails and balustrades, shower enclosures, curtain wall framing and glass and mirror walls.
Outside plant applications may involve locating connectors underground in subsurface enclosures that may be subject to flooding, on outdoor walls, or on utility poles.
The culture is characterized by its construction of enclosures made of earthen walls, often built in geometric patterns, and mounds of various shapes.
A-G72 --- E -: enclosures of external site ( fence, walls )

walls and Khmer
Khmer temples were typically enclosed by a concentric series of walls, with the central sanctuary in the middle ; this arrangement represented the mountain ranges surrounding Mount Meru, the mythical home of the gods.
* Khmer and Malay theatre – In Cambodia, at the ancient capital Angkor Wat, stories from the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata have been carved on the walls of temples and palaces.
Despite the fact that Phimai has been built in a similar fashion to Angkor and other Khmer Buddhist temples, some religious structures located within Phimai ’ s walls are still being debated about its original religion.
Scenes from the Reamker are painted on the walls of the Royal Palace in Khmer style, and its predecessor is carved into the walls of the Angkor Wat and Banteay Srei temples.
Khmer decorations drew inspiration from religion, and mythical creatures from Hinduism and Buddhism were carved on walls.
The encircling walls are roughly 279 feet long on each side and contain a large number of Lao and Khmer sculptures including one of Jayavarman VII.

walls and temples
Taxes were paid in produce and labour on public walls, including city walls, temples, irrigation canals and waterways, producing huge agricultural surpluses.
Besides keeping existing public buildings and facilities in a proper state of repair, the censors were also in charge of constructing new ones, either for ornament or utility, both in Rome and in other parts of Italy, such as temples, basilicae, theatres, porticoes, fora, walls of towns, aqueducts, harbours, bridges, cloacae, roads, etc.
At Syracuse, he repaired the city walls and the temples of the gods.
Hammurabi used his power to undertake a series of public works, including heightening the city walls for defensive purposes, and expanding the temples.
He was also honored by the Romans, particularly the emperors Claudius and Tiberius whom had inscriptions that praised Imhotep on the walls of many of their Egyptian temples.
The temple is described in the article as adapting " the robust typology of Mayan temples, with durasteel cladding specified for the external stone walls for improved defensive strength " and said to be a ziggurat that " is built above a Force-nexus and has ample room for training facilities, accommodation and the Jedi Archive.
These Kerala mural painting are on walls of Hindu temples.
Scholarly literature usually concentrates on temples, palaces, city walls and gates, and other monumental buildings, but occasionally one finds works on residential architecture as well.
The Assyrians deployed large labour forces to build new palaces, temples and defensive walls.
The bhavacakra ( Sanskrit ; Pali: bhavacakka ; Tibetan: srid pa ' i ' khor lo ) is a symbolic representation of samsara ( or cyclic existence ) found on the outside walls of Tibetan Buddhist temples and monasteries in the Indo-Tibet region.
Such temples will have an additional set of steps leading to an open mantapa ( open hall ) with parapet walls.
Within the area surrounded by the walls are the remains of three temples, all of the Doric order, and of an ancient style ; none of them were standing until the temple designated " Temple E " was re-erected in the 20th century, but the foundations of them all remain, together with numerous portions of columns and other architectural fragments, sufficient to enable one to restore the plan and design of all three without difficulty.
All these buildings may be safely referred to a period anterior to the Carthaginian conquest ( 409 BCE ), though the three temples last described appear to have been all of them of later date than those within the walls of the city.
Those of these sculptures that belonged to the temples within the walls, present a peculiar and archaic style of art, and are universally recognized as among the earliest extant specimens of Greek sculpture Those, on the contrary, which have been found among the ruins of the temple on the opposite hill, are of a later and more advanced style, though still retaining considerable remains of the stiffness of the earliest art.
Texts related to Osirian rituals come from the walls of Egyptian temples that date from the New Kingdom to the Ptolemaic era of 323 – 30 BC.
During the Roman Empire the city was enriched with several buildings, including aqueducts, walls, amphitheaters, temples and bridges.
The walls of the country's cities are destroyed and its temples are plundered.
It seems to have been almost entirely constructed of the remains of the Byzantine era Nicaea, the walls of the ruined mosques and baths being full of the fragments of ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine temples and churches.
Scholarly literature usually concentrates on the architecture of temples, palaces, city walls and gates, and other monumental buildings, but occasionally one finds works on residential architecture as well.
They were proud of this achievement as attested in the Epic of Gilgamesh which opens with a description of Uruk its walls, streets, markets, temples, and gardens.

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