What is "increases"

Usage examples of "increases".

Whilst the perfect flowers are thus bending down, the whole peduncle curves downwards and increases much in length, until the flowerhead reaches the ground.

Further, the types of morphological change we have found and that I discuss in Chapter 10, the changes in synaptic connections due to growth of new dendritic spines, the increases in synapse numbers and dimensions - changes analogous to those found in other labs and in other experimental paradigms - make theoretical sense.

It is thus that love takes his pleasure, thus his growth increases, and thus that he so soon becomes a giant in strength.

In other words those necessary periods of repose are a source of true enjoyment, because, thanks to them, we enjoy the delight of recollection which increases twofold the reality of happiness.

At its height friendship becomes love, and the palliative one is forced to apply to soothe it for a moment only increases its intensity.

The conical protuberance, which originally formed the crown of the arch, is now seated on one side, and appears like a joint or knee, which from acquiring chlorophyll becomes green, and increases in size.

It may be added, that the crown of the arch does not grow, or grows very slowly, for it does not increase much in breadth, whilst the arch itself increases greatly in height.

As I was talking with my new acquaintance, I recollected an amalgam of mercury with lead and bismuth, by which the mercury increases one-fourth in weight.

I obeyed cheerfully, for the slightest wish of the woman we love is a law, and our very obedience increases our happiness.

If so, it was true, then, that the more a family increases, the greater is the harvest of ingratitude.

There are increases in the numbers of synapses in the LPO, in the numbers of vesicles per synapse, and even in the length of the postsynaptic thickenings in left IMHV and LPO.

For sure, all the biochemical and physiological phenomena I catalogued in Chapter 10 are transient in the sense that the increases in protein synthesis, neural bursting activity and so forth do not persist beyond a few hours after the learning experience.

Indeed, cohesion increases as we pass from the gaseous, through the liquid, to the solid state of matter.

Whilst the brightness appearing in the direction of the light goes over from yellow and orange to an increasingly red shade, the darkness of the black background brightens to blue, which increases and passes over to a milky white.

For here, as the density of the medium increases, the colour-effect grows darker by yellow darkening first to orange and then to red, until finally it passes over into complete darkness.