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The volume of the cylinder opening in the head gasket must be computed by multiplying its area in square inches by the gasket's thickness in thousandths of an inch.
A bullet fired by one of the Mexicans hiding in a little chicken house had passed through his head, tearing a hole two-inches square on the outgoing side.
The amount of energy delivered to the target by the hammer-blow is equivalent to one half the mass of the head times the square of the head's speed at the time of impact ().
The head of the rudder shaft had two square holes about 200 – 300 mm apart.
The head is always over a particular square of the tape ; only a finite stretch of squares is shown.
It consists of an artistic representation of a young person's head ( 1. 37m high ), flattened on top, in the corner of a square pond, and, just above the water, a ring of rosehip thorn ( with a single rosehip bud attached to it ).
It is distinguished by a small square head with prominent tusks.
Prince popularized the oversize racket, which had a head size of approximately 110 square-inches and opened the door for the introduction of rackets having other non-standard head sizes such as mid-size ( 90 square inches ) and mid-plus size ( 95 square inches ).
Couple numbering in a square dance set usually begins with the couple nearest the head of the hall ( the side of the room containing the musicians and caller, or in the pre-caller era, the royal presence or other hosts or important guests ).
A kerchief ( from the French couvre-chef, " cover the head "; also Bandana ) is a triangular or square piece of cloth tied around the head or around the neck for protective or decorative purposes.
Post-retirement, Sampras has used a slightly modified Pro Staff Tour 90 and, from 2008, a new version of the original Pro Staff, produced with in-between head size of 88 square inches and heavier weight at 349 grams unstrung.
His name comes from the word herma referring to a square or rectangular pillar of stone, terracotta, or bronze ; a bust of Hermes ' head, usually with a beard, sat on the top of the pillar, and male genitals adorned the base.
The head is long, with an over-all shape similar to an equilateral triangle, a strong chin, and a muzzle of medium length ; a square or round-shaped head is considered to be a defect.
* Term ( architecture ) or terminal form, a human head and bust that continues as a square tapering pillar-like form
Hermetic refers to a pillar or post that was used in pre-classical Greece, " of square shape, surmounted by a head with a beard.
The galleon differed from the older types primarily by being longer, lower and narrower, with a square tuck stern instead of a round tuck, and by having a snout or head projecting forward from the bows below the level of the forecastle.
The monk is driven by a key-wound spring and walks the path of a square, striking his chest with his right arm, while raising and lowering a small wooden cross and rosary in his left hand, turning and nodding his head, rolling his eyes, and mouthing silent obsequies.
Such a flat-headed screw may have a slotted, cross, square recessed, or combination head, causing further confusion about the terminology.
With Mao Zedong as both head of state (" 國家主席 ", ' state chairman ') and government (" 總理 ", prime minister ), the Jiangxi Soviet gradually expanded, reaching a peak of more than 30, 000 square kilometres and a population that numbered more than three million, covering considerable parts of two provinces ( with Tingzhou in Fujian ).

square and fell
On the opposite side of the central square, a monument plaza features a Soviet T-34 tank, commemorating the Soviet victory in World War II, an eternal flame to those who fell defending the city in 1941 and liberating it in 1944, as well as several monuments dedicated to more recent conflicts, including the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the War of Transnistria.
Although this was the largest part of Manawa to be platted, and appeared to be laid out as the civic center of the city, complete with a town square, it fell into decline, and only in more modern times has begun to grow again.
The pressure was gone, letting the granite expand ; cracks formed, and it fell apart in big, square blocks.
Eventually Mu “ was completely obliterated in almost a single night ”: after a series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, " the broken land fell into that great abyss of fire " and was covered by " fifty millions of square miles of water.
Additionally, due to the measurements always being measured as direct lines from the station, as opposed to hyperbolic curves, the accuracy fell off linearly instead of with the square of distance.
After the Velvet Revolution, Palach ( along with Zajíc ) was commemorated in Prague by a bronze cross embedded at the spot where he fell outside the National Museum, as well as a square named in his honour.
After the 5th century the square capitals fell out of use, except as a display lettering for titles and chapter headings in conjunction with various script hands for body text, for example uncials.
On 8 February 1857 at the Battle of Khushab, Persia, the adjutant of the regiment ( Arthur Thomas Moore ) was probably the first in the attack, but his horse, on leaping into the square, fell dead, crushing his rider and breaking his sword.
On 8 February 1857 at the Battle of Khushab, Persia, Lieutenant Moore who was Adjutant of the Regiment, was probably the first in the attack, but his horse, on leaping into the square, fell dead, crushing his rider and breaking his sword.
The town square in Måløy has a monument over the denizens of Sør-Vågsøy and Davik municipalities who fell in World War II.
For more than 80 hours, steady freezing rain and drizzle fell over an area of several thousand square miles of Eastern Ontario, including Ottawa and Kingston, an extensive area in southern Quebec, northern New York, and northern New England ( including parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine ).
There was a well in the square here, and such was the excitement, and it being dark, a man fell into the well and was drowned.
Its original round tower fell probably in the 16th century, and was repaired in the most economical fashion, built of brick and square, but retaining the eastern curved part built of flint.
The square fell out of use in the late 19th century with the advent of modern repeating firearms ( which made concentrated formations risky in the face of increased firepower ), along with the parallel decline of horse cavalry.
About 20 stones fell over an area of several square miles.
The upper part of the fell, in excess of a mile square, is soft, peaty and drab.
Later in his career, as his bowling fell away, he became a powerful batsman, particularly square of the wicket.
Before the existence of wetlands regulation in the Guadalquivir basin, Seville suffered regular heavy flooding ; perhaps worst of all were the floods that occurred in November 1961 when the river Tamarguillo overflowed as a result of a prodigious downpour of rain in which three hundred litres of water per square metre fell in a short period.

square and over
The innocent malfeasant, filled with that supreme sense of honor found in bars, insisted upon replacing the destroyed monacle -- and did, over the protests of the former owner -- with a square monacle.
From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.
`` Which is a break as the area to search is less than a square mile '', she added as she swung her legs over the transom.
`` The police will have gone over every square inch of the place with a fine-tooth comb.
In this historic square are several statues, but the one that stands out over the others is that of Gen. Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans.
More and more, these days, she'd been driving that pretty little mare that looked like her, over to Tillie's and Nick's -- his own old square frame box on posts, chickens and cats and pups under the house, everybody friendly inside, making a to-do over the babies dressed like dollies.
* The square n-by-n matrices with entries from the field K form a unitary associative algebra over K.
When a pawn advances two squares from its starting position and there is an opponent's pawn on an adjacent file next to its destination square, then the opponent's pawn can capture it en passant ( in passing ), and move to the square the pawn passed over.
Most modern high speed production engines are classified as " over square " or short-stroke, wherein the stroke is less than the diameter of the cylinder bore.
Over his career he mapped over 3. 9 million square kilometers of North America and for this has been described as the " greatest land geographer who ever lived.
For square matrices with entries in a non-commutative ring, for instance the quaternions, there is no unique definition for the determinant, and no definition that has all the usual properties of determinants over commutative rings.
To summarize, the probability distribution of the outcome is the normalized square of the norm of the superposition, over all paths from the point of origin to the final point, of waves propagating proportionally to the action along each path.
These regions are among the world's most densely populated, containing an average of over 3, 820 persons per square mile ( 1, 540 per km².
By December 2006, over 1, 237, 000 square kilometers of forest land in Canada ( about half the global total ) had been certified as being sustainably managed ( Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition ).
Designed by world-famous British architect Norman Foster, the 2 billion euro mega-project will feature three, 200-metre long finger quays and a sweeping kilometre-long curved breakwater to surround them, totaling over 300, 000 square metres of infill.
The conversion factor is 10 < sup > 8 </ sup >, since flux is the integral of field over an area, area having the units of the square of distance, thus 10 < sup > 4 </ sup > ( magnetic field conversion factor ) times the square of 10 < sup > 2 </ sup > ( linear distance conversion factor, i. e., centimetres per meter ).
Today, the floor event occurs on a carpeted 12m × 12m square, usually consisting of hard foam over a layer of plywood, which is supported by springs or foam blocks generally called a " spring " floor.
By the 18th century there was a square at the centre of the town, flanked by the town hall, a public gaol housing prisoners from all over the Lordship of Biscay, a hospital and a poor-house for local people.
This region constitutes 1. 5 million square miles ( 3. 9 million km² ) in the drainage basin of Hudson Bay, comprising over 1 / 3 the area of modern day Canada and stretching into the north central United States.
In 2012 it was reported that confidential agreements and negotiations had been entered into by the Haitian government granting licenses for exploration or mining of gold and associated metals such as copper for over 1, 000 square miles in the mineralized zone stretching from east to west across northern Haiti.
Sunlight at zenith provides an irradiance of just over 1 kilowatt per square meter at sea level.

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