translator

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The inclination of the ripple depends solely on the ratio of the river's translatory motion to the velocity of its wave-motion.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

For directed translatory movements cannot be transmitted through a fluid, pressure in which is necessarily hydrostatic, and must be exerted equally in every direction.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John

Whatever it may be that gives relief to this condensation, the relief itself consists in motion, either translatory or vibratory, of the electrical ether or ethers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various

Thus the geotherms must move upwards, and the viscous conditions extend from below; continually diminishing the downward range of the translatory movements progressing in the higher parts.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John

The translatory energy of the train is transformed into the molecular energy called heat.

From The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena by Dolbear, A. E. (Amos Emerson)