slenderness
11slenderness ratio — noun : the ratio of the length of a structural member (as a column) to its least radius of gyration * * * Rocketry. See aspect ratio (def. 4a) …
12Buckling — In engineering, buckling is a failure mode characterized by a sudden failure of a structural member subjected to high compressive stresses, where the actual compressive stress at the point of failure is less than the ultimate compressive stresses …
13thinness — n. 1. Slenderness, slimness, meagreness, leanness, gauntness, emaciation, lankness. 2. Meagreness, poorness, slenderness. 3. Tenuity, fineness, slenderness, delicacy, exiguity. 4. Tenuity, rareness. 5. Rarity, rareness, tenuity, subtilty,… …
14thinness — noun 1. relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width (Freq. 1) the tenuity of a hair the thinness of a rope • Syn: ↑tenuity, ↑slenderness • Ant: ↑thickness …
15Sliver building — Sliver buildings are tall slender buildings constructed on lots with a narrow frontage, typically 45 feet or less. Over the past decade, one of the most remarkable advances in tall building design has been their construction to unprecedented… …
16Slender-body theory — is a methodology that can be used to take advantage of the slenderness of a body to obtain an approximation to a field surrounding it and/or the net effect of the field on the body. Principle applications are to Stokes flow and in electrostatics …
17Church of Saint Mary the Ancient — The Church of Saint Mary the Ancient rises from the twelfth century in the city of Valladolid. Preserves since then a slender tower topped with a Romanesque chapitel tile and a portico on the north side also Romanesque. The rest of the building… …
18attenuation — n. 1. Thinning, diminishing, rarefying, making thin, thread like, or slender. 2. Thinness, thread likeness, slenderness, emaciation, slender elongation, extreme slenderness …
19slightness — noun 1. smallness of stature • Syn: ↑delicacy • Derivationally related forms: ↑slight • Hypernyms: ↑smallness, ↑littleness 2. the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous …
20slimness — noun 1. a small margin the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote • Syn: ↑narrow margin, ↑narrowness •… …
