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This U-shaped plan of the house with the terraces is a device that again recalls Maisons, where Mansart intended " to indicate that his château was conceived in a noble tradition of French design while at the same time emphasizing its modernity in comparison to predecessors.
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It was probably built as a courtyard house enclosing a quadrangle, but much of it has been demolished, leaving the house with a U-shaped plan.
During the 18th century the east wing of the house was demolished leaving the U-shaped plan seen today.
The posts are barked logs, as the floor plan is made of only four tatami mats in a U-shaped pattern.
Three years later in 1947, a long-range airport development plan was created for building a Quonset hut administrative building, a U-shaped entrance road with parking, a gasoline service station for aircraft, a tourist court with recreational facilities, a maintenance building and hangars for aircraft.
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In a traditional opera house, the auditorium is U-shaped, with the length of the sides determining the audience capacity.
A decade after this first European contact around 1835-37, ' Hambledon ', a U-shaped slab house was built at Tarcutta.
The club house is a U-shaped, with stucco over wood frame with low hipped slate roof, stone embedded in stucco, leaded glass casements, and mullions forming crosettes in continuous fenestration.
He also added an indoor tennis & swimming pavilion, several holes of golf, beautiful formal gardens, and a U-shaped carriage house for his fourteen Rolls-Royce automobiles, which now serves as the Village Hall and library for the Village of Bayville.
In 1684 she commissioned the architect, James Smith to remodel the existing buildings, removing the southern part of the previous courtyard building on the site and increasing the scale of the edifice to form a U-shaped mansion house.
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In autozooids the gut is U-shaped, with the mouth inside the " crown " of tentacles and the anus outside it.
In a similar movement, the Draw Pousette, the dancing pairs move on a U-shaped track with one dancer of the pair always moving forwards.
In addition to T-shaped IUDs, there are also U-shaped IUDs ( such as the Multiload ) and 7-shaped Gravigard Copper 7 ( with a mini version for nulliparous women introduced in the 1980s ).
A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs ( tines ) formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal ( usually steel ).
In order to visualize this effect, imagine a U-shaped clear tube with equal amounts of water on each side, separated by a membrane at its base that is impermeable to sugar molecules ( made from dialysis tubing ).
The tape punch, rather than punching out the usual round holes, would instead punch little U-shaped cuts in the paper, so that no chad would be produced ; the " hole " was still filled with a little paper trap-door.
A glen is a valley, typically one that is long, deep, and often glacially U-shaped ; or one with a watercourse running through such a valley.
The pond was located in an inverted U-shaped valley with a linear portion in the north heading northwest to the Hudson River.
" Additionally, James Cresswell, an NRC inspector, warned for two years that a design flaw with U-shaped tubes could prevent coolant circulation and cause an accident like that which would occur at TMI.
A test tube, also known as a culture tube or sample tube, is a common piece of laboratory glassware consisting of a finger-like length of glass or clear plastic tubing, open at the top, usually with a rounded U-shaped bottom.
The center and northern parts are somewhat low and a U-shaped basin, open in the north and with Lake Dongting as its center.
Rose's profession at the time was making jewelry, and, after noticing one of the issues with regular nut design is that the string moves freely, he used his tools to create a brass nut that locked the strings in place with three U-shaped clamps.
The leaves of the black oak are alternately arranged on the twig and are 10 – 20 cm ( 4 – 8 in ) long with 5-7 bristle tipped lobes separated by deep U-shaped notches.
The mountain valleys were enlarged into U-shaped troughs as far down as the ice reached, with hanging lateral valleys on the way.
Freudenberger House ( referred to by students as " Freddy ") is a five-story, U-shaped residence hall, designed with 2 -, 3-and 4-person rooms to accommodate 740 men and women on single-gender floors.
Glacial landforms overwhelmingly dominate Banff's geomorphology, with examples of all classic glacial forms: cirques, aretes, hanging valleys, moraines, U-shaped valleys et al.
In China the Tian Shan starts north of Kumul City ( Hami ) with the U-shaped Barkol Mountains, from about east of Ürümqi.
The twigs are slender to moderately stout, brown with deep U-shaped leaf scars, and with short, light brown, fuzzy buds.
Each of these women is rattling a Hathor sistrum, a musical instrument for percussion with a U-shaped handle and frame seen as resembling the face and horns of the cow goddess Hathor, while holding a menat, a protective amulet associated with Hathor, in the other hand.
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The gases are contained in a test-tube ( A ) standing over a large quantity of weak alkali ( B ), and the current is conveyed in wires insulated by U-shaped glass tubes ( CC ) passing through the liquid and round the mouth of the test-tube.
It is a three storey U-shaped brick building completed in 1726.
The head is flat, U-shaped and has a prominent ridge running from the blowhole to the top of the upper lip.
A very simple version is a U-shaped tube half-full of liquid, one side of which is connected to the region of interest while the reference pressure ( which might be the atmospheric pressure or a vacuum ) is applied to the other.
The style that has become most common is the hard-shell, U-shaped version described in a cookbook, The good life: New Mexican food, authored by Fabiola Cabeza de Vaca Gilbert and published in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1949.
Because of the downward tilt of the Earth's magnetic field at high latitudes, the area of peak field strength is a U-shaped region to the equatorial side of the nuclear detonation.
As shown in the diagram at the right, for nuclear detonations over the continental United States, this U-shaped region is south of the detonation point.
Another version is the Ubbelohde viscometer, which consists of a U-shaped glass tube held vertically in a controlled temperature bath.
A fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped by ice segregation and abrasion of the surrounding bedrock.
The Devil's Throat is U-shaped, 82 meters high, 150 m wide, and 700 m long ().
Mount Shasta's surface is relatively free of deep glacial erosion except, paradoxically, for its south side where Sargents Ridge runs parallel to the U-shaped Avalanche Gulch.
Glacial erosion is responsible for U-shaped valleys, as opposed to the V-shaped valleys of fluvial origin.
The town of Horseshoe Lake is situated in the Mississippi River flood plains at the eastern tip of a U-shaped water body named Horseshoe Lake, which the town is named after.
The whole of the optical assembly is traditionally attached to a rigid arm, which in turn is attached to a robust U-shaped foot to provide the necessary rigidity.
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