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 Translation for 'to tilt' from English to Portuguese
VERB   to tilt | tilted | tilted
tilting | tilts
SYNO arguing | argument | careen | ...
balançarto tilt
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Translation for 'to tilt' from English to Portuguese

to tilt
balançar
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Usage Examples English
  • The pan continued to tilt with the weight of the coin until it fell off, at which point a counterweight snapped the lever up and turned off the valve.
  • To compensate for this, patients learn to tilt the head forward (tuck the chin in) in order to bring the fields back together—to fuse the two images into a single visual field.
  • It requires very complex gearing to tilt the wings without varying the power to the propellers, and therefore was never built.
  • It acts to tilt the sole of the foot away from the midline of the body (eversion) and to extend the foot downward away from the body (plantar flexion) at the ankle.
  • The traditional solution to this problem is to tilt the rails into the turns, an effect known as "superelevation" or "cant".

  • Modern TEMs are often equipped with specimen holders that allow the user to tilt the specimen to a range of angles in order to obtain specific diffraction conditions, and apertures placed above the specimen allow the user to select electrons that would otherwise be diffracted in a particular direction from entering the specimen.
  • Fluid pressure causes the pad to tilt slightly, creating a narrow constriction between the shoe and the other bearing surface.
  • military Humvee was designed in part to allow it to tilt farther than taller vehicles without rolling over, by ensuring its low center of mass stays over the space bounded by the four wheels even at angles far from the horizontal.
  • Class 403 was able to tilt 4°, but the fixed pantographs limited this to 2°.
  • For twisting rotation to exist, it is necessary to tilt the body sideways after takeoff, so that there is now a small component of this horizontal angular momentum vector along the body's long axis.

  • Seismic action gradually took its toll on the breakwaters, causing them to tilt down and settle into the seabed.
  • Another approach was to tilt the tail stabiliser to deflect engine slipstream up through the rotor.
  • For the extraordinary polarization the tilt also changes the refractive index to the ordinary via a factor of cos θ, so combined with the path length, the phase shift for the extraordinary light due to tilt is zero.
  • About 10 Ma, the Sierra Nevada started to form when a block of crust between the Coast Range and the Basin and Range Province started to tilt to the west as heat from the Basin and Range extension thinned the eastern part of the block, making it more buoyant than the western portion of the block.
  • By design, all static horizontal forces of the cable-stayed bridge are balanced so that the supporting towers do not tend to tilt or slide and so must only resist horizontal forces from the live loads.

  • Secondly, post-glacial rebound after the removal of the weight of ice over Scotland caused the island of Great Britain to tilt about an east–west axis, because isostatic rebound in Scotland and Scandinavia is pulling mantle rock out from under the Netherlands and south England: this is forebulge sinking.
  • Often the boom operator will need to be as familiar with the script as are the actors, as they may be required to tilt or move the microphone according to who is speaking.
  • The fire caused the tower's upper spire to tilt slightly, triggering fears the tower might collapse.
  • In vacuum regions (those points of spacetime free of matter), this inability to tilt all the light cones so that they are all parallel is reflected in the non-vanishing of the Weyl tensor.
  • Sectarian tensions between fundamentalist Protestants and Buddhists occasionally surface due to what has been seen as a tendency of government officials – many of whom are Christians, especially of Protestant denominations – to tilt the political balance in favour of Christians over Buddhists which has led to discontent within the Buddhist community.

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