the strain is non-uniform across the cross section
a non-uniform pricing scheme
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The rate of the planet's motion, along the elliptical pathway, was constantly non-uniform.
The delivery order need not be so rigid but the driver must be aware of the non-uniform loading which the vehicle undergoes in such situations.
He says the ironies, the paradoxes, of the normalization of the Mars orbit and the other orbits, show that we have an elliptical orbit, with constantly non-uniform action.
During the early growth stages in rice, the occurrence of low-temperature stress affects seed germination and eventually leads to non-uniform crop maturation.
The color of Epimetheus in this view appears to vary in a non-uniform way across the different facets of the moon's irregular surface.
However, the data do not exclude the possibility of non-uniform lateral extension of the sequence.
This has led to non-uniformity in dealing with investors among regulatory bodies.
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Part of the reason for this non-uniformity is the variation in intensity of the beam illuminating the modulator.
The theory has the potential to predict the level of non-uniformity expected in the Universe.
Its major pitfall, neglecting non-uniformity and non-locality, has a long history.
This non-uniformity makes it difficult to ink deals with music providers, she said.
non-uniformly
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Chemistry causes the plastic to shrink non-uniformly across its length and breadth as it is being molded into a part.
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If a collection of particles exert attractive forces upon one another then, unless they are distributed in a perfectly uniform manner, they will tend to become clumped and non-uniformly distributed as time passes.
The Earth rotates non-uniformly, its poles move, and the rotation axis fluctuates in space.
Nitrate pollution is also highly non-uniformly mixed, in that in many areas of the country there is no problem.
Similarly, turbulence intensity is found to decrease non-uniformly across the length of the plate.