When the string is drawn back, the string causes the pulleys to turn.

When the key is released, the tangent loses contact with the string and the vibration of the string is silenced by strips of damping cloth.

When considering computational problems, a problem instance is a string over an alphabet.

When choosing a bass with a fifth string, the player must decide between adding a higher or lower-tuned string.

When playing in the instrument's upper range ( above the G below middle C ), the player shifts their hand out from behind the neck and flattens it out, using the side of the thumb to press down the string.

When bluegrass bass players slap the string by pulling it until it hits the fingerboard or hit the strings against the fingerboard, it adds the high-pitched percussive " clack " or " slap " sound to the low-pitched bass notes, sounding much like the clacks of a tap dancer.

* When the front of the key is pressed, the back of the key rises, the jack is lifted, and the plectrum plucks the string.

When the key is pressed, the jack is raised, and the plectrum touches the string and begins to bend.

When the player releases the key, the jack falls back down under its own weight, and the plectrum pivots backwards to allow it to pass the string.

* When the key is released, the jack falls back down under its own weight, and the plectrum passes back under the string.

* When the jack arrives in fully lowered position, the felt damper touches the string, causing the note to cease.

When rotated with a wrench or tuning hammer, the tuning pin adjusts the tension so that the string will sound the correct pitch.

When two strings tuned to be the same pitch, or to an octave apart, are plucked simultaneously by a single keystroke, the note is louder and richer than one produced by a single string.

When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.

When users visit a website ( using " user agent " software such as a web browser ), a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the web server.

When k points are blown-up, the del Pezzo surface describes M-theory on a k-torus, and the exceptional del Pezzo surface, namely P < sup > 1 </ sup >( C ) × P < sup > 1 </ sup >( C ), is connected with type IIB string theory in 10 dimensions.

When Ekaterin is taken ill, Taura traces it to a string of pearls that had apparently been sent by current Dendarii Admiral ( and Miles's ex-lover ) Elli Quinn, and which do not look right to her augmented vision.

When a string appears literally in source code, it is known as a string literal and has a representation that denotes it as such.

When finally the other extreme of the string the direction will again be reversed in a way similar to what is displayed in figure 6

When a character string is transformed by the BWT, none of its characters change value.

When air is forced between the reed and the mouthpiece, the reed vibrates, creating the sound.

When sound vibrates the membrane, the coil is vibrated as well.

When the overtones are integer multiples ( e. g., 2 ×, 3 × ... 6 × ... ) of the fundamental frequency ( called harmonics ), then the oscillation is periodic, i. e., it vibrates in exactly the same way over and over again.

When threatened, H. gerrardii raises its body off the ground to appear larger and flickers or vibrates its tongue rapidly similar to snakes.

When the spider is threatened by a touch to the web or when too large a prey becomes entangled, the spider vibrates rapidly in a gyrating motion in its web and becomes blurred and difficult to focus on.

When the length of the string is halved, and plucked, it produces a pitch an octave higher and the string vibrates at twice the frequency of the original ( 2: 1 ).

When the musician depresses the free end of a plate with a finger or fingernail, and then allows the finger to slip off, the released plate vibrates.

When bending, the player forces the lower of the two reeds in a chamber to vibrate faster, while the higher pitched reed vibrates slower.

When a string is stopped at one-third, the remaining two-thirds vibrates a perfect fifth higher than the open string ( almost exactly equivalent to 5 / 8 of an octave ).

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

When an object falls into a black hole, any information about the shape of the object or distribution of charge on it is evenly distributed along the horizon of the black hole, and is lost to outside observers.

When attempting to draw a complicated shape such as a human figure, it is helpful at first to represent the form with a set of primitive shapes.

When Greek orthography was codified by grammarians in the Hellenistic era, they used a diacritic symbol derived from this half-H shape to signal the presence of / h /, and added as its counterpart a reverse-shaped diacritic to denote absence of / h /.

When envisioning the shape of the cosmos, the Egyptians saw the earth as a flat expanse of land, personified by the god Geb, over which arched the sky goddess Nut.

When mapped, one of the contorted districts in the Boston area was said to resemble the shape of a salamander.

When perched with the wings folded, ivory-bills of both sexes present a large patch of white on the lower back, roughly triangular in shape.

When the first postage stamps premiered in the 1840s, they followed an almost identical standard in their shape, size and general subject matter.

When, for example, an explosion blows a hole in a rock wall, the GeoMod technology creates an " empty space " object which is the approximate size and shape of the explosion.

When the field is removed, the quartz will generate an electric field as it returns to its previous shape, and this can generate a voltage.

When threatened, Sipunculids can retract their body into a shape resembling a peanut kernel-a practice that has given rise to the name " peanut worm ".

When basalt erupts underwater or flows into the sea, contact with the water quenches the surface and the lava forms a distinctive pillow shape, through which the hot lava breaks to form another pillow.

When the coffin was last inspected on 17 May 1827, a Saxon square cross of gold, embellished with garnets, in the characteristic splayed shape, used later as the heraldic emblem of St Cuthbert in the arms of Durham and Newcastle universities, was found.

When a voltage is applied, the piezoelectric material changes shape, which generates a pressure pulse in the fluid forcing a droplet of ink from the nozzle.

When the intruder returns again the next night, the C57-Ds crew discovers it is invisible, its shape outlined only by the energy beams of the force field fence and the energy weapons directed at it, all of which have no effect.

When viewed from the air, the building is in the shape of a bass clef.

When applied to a tangent vector X to the surface, the shape operator is the tangential component of the rate of change of the normal vector when moved along a curve on the surface tangent to X.

When the pH drops, luciferase changes its shape, allowing luciferin, more specifically tetrapyrrole, to bind.

When inflated, the wing's cross-section has the typical teardrop aerofoil shape.

When the edge of the sun's image touches the part of the shape for the current month, this indicates that it is 12: 00 noon.

The following evening Profumo's brother-in-law, Lord Balfour of Inchrye, remarked on live television that " When a man has by self-indulgence acquired the shape of Lord Hailsham, sexual continence requires no more than a sense of the ridiculous ".

When the simulator is in operation, an accurate shape for the flexible sheet is maintained by its attachment to a shaped former by suction pressure produced by a small vacuum pump.

When the duplication of a given rectangle preserves its shape, the ratio of the large dimension to the small dimension is a constant number in all the copies, and in the original rectangle.

When liquid is added to the cereal, the sugar inside the marshmallow dissolves and the shape of a skeleton key " appears " as if " by magic ".