What is "inclined planes"

Usage examples of "inclined planes".

There was rote memorization about the Periodic Table of the Elements, levers and inclined planes, green plant photosynthesis, and the difference between anthracite and bituminous coal.

But just then the inclined planes drew the Nautilus down to a great depth, and I could see nothing of the high coral walls.

Ascent was effected over the steep, transversely ribbed stone ramps or inclined planes which everywhere served in lieu of stairs.

Not the dynamics of rolling balls on inclined planes, but the dynamics of royal and noble families.

There would have been rooms opening off on the right, and at the farther end one of those strange inclined planes would have wound down to still lower depths.

The sight of the chubby newsman bumbling into obvious traps and getting tangled in pulleys and inclined planes with bowling balls atop them, while Leoh solicitously urged him to be careful every step of the way, struck most people as funny.

Once again there is a wealth of explanations for anyone to choose from: inclined planes, and tracks along which the stones were pushed, scaffolding and ramps.

The inclined planes of gravitic stress formed above and below a spacecraft by its impeller drive.

That European mindscape -- Galileo's crisp cylinders rolling obediently down inclined planes, Einstein's dispassionate observers surveying their smooth geometrics like scrupulous bank clerks -- evaporated here like yesterday's stale champagne.

That European mindscape--Galileo's crisp cylinders rolling obediently down inclined planes, Einstein's dispassionate observers surveying their smooth geometrics like scrtipulous bank clerks--evaporated here like yesterday's stale champagne.