segment of a circle in a sentence

Examples

1. Six of these vanes were arranged as segments of a circle at the tail end of the missile body, where they were protected from the rocket exhaust.
2. In World War I, ogives were typically two circular radius head ( crh )-the curve was a segment of a circle having a radius of twice the shell calibre.
3. Greg Aanes explains that the rocking device is not truly round; that is, it is not a segment of a circle but a runner that curves just enough to pitch us forward and send us back.
4. TX chronographs feature a flyback function, a hand that moves ( e . g ., to indicate the time ) along a segment of a circle, can be stopped independently and then springs backward to its starting position when it reaches the end of the scale.
5. Their horns are similarly closed into a ring and they sometimes wear devices in segments of a circle, or of textile, which are perhaps means of carrying things ( Hadjra Sidi Boubakeur, Teniet el Mzab, Hadjra Mohkotma, Ben Hadid, Bou Sekkin, Safiet bou Khenan and Oued Mergueb ).
6. Only an outer planet at stationary retrograde / direct ( or a star ) would closelt approximate a segment of a circle; and while the inner planets at stationary would move enough to distort a circle, the distortion would be small enough that " circle " would be a reasonable term.
7. On his collar the king wears as amulets ( 1 ) the fork, the symbol of the weather-god, Adad; ( 2 ) a segment of a circle, of uncertain meaning; ( 3 ) an eight-pointed star in a disk, here probably the symbol of Shamash, the sun-god; ( 4 ) a winged disk, again of the god Ashur.