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She lives a very marginal existence on the streets of the city, begging for food, and sleeping in bus shelters.
Farming has always been marginal to the economy of Kuwait, due to its hot, dry desert climate.
“The correction of the chromatic aberration, like that of the spherical, tends to excess in the marginal rays; so that if a glass which is achromatic, with a moderate aperture, has its cell opened wider, the circle of rays thus added to the pencil will be rather over-corrected as to color.
“One other property of the double object-glass remains to be mentioned, which is, that when the longer aplanatic focus is used, the marginal rays of a pencil not coincident with the axis of the glass are distorted, so that a coma is thrown outwards; while the contrary effect of a coma directed towards the centre of the field is produced by the rays from the shorter focus.
16, the extreme rays of the pencil impinge on the more marginal parts of the glass, and as the refractions are greater here, the aberrations will be greater also.
Gelatinous, marginal, fertile above, barren below.
Cilia, marginal hair-like processes.
Fringe, a lacerated marginal membrane.
Plate F illustrates by section or otherwise various forms of these gill-like processes characteristic of species, considered either with regard to marginal outline or position of their posterior extremity: Fig.
Further, the marginal crevasses of a glacier are known to be a consequence of the swifter flow of its central portions, which throws the sides into a state of strain from which they relieve themselves by breaking.
Surely, if the glacier possessed a property which could with any propriety be called viscosity, it ought to be able to respond to this[359] moderate demand; but it is not able to do so: instead of stretching as a viscous body, in obedience to this slow strain, it breaks as an eminently fragile one, and marginal crevasses are the consequence.
The principal kinds of structure may be divided into three; as follows: 1st, Marginal structure, developed by pressure due to the swifter motion of the centre of the glacier.
The cone is round and very large, with numerous wedge-shaped scales, and large eatable seeds or nuts, which have each a short, callous, marginal wing.
Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations, minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).
A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, S plates, antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica).
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