inchworm


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Synonyms for inchworm

small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments

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"Many creatures such as inchworms, which have completely soft, compliant bodies without any rigid components, exhibit unprecedented abilities in adapting their shapes," the team wrote.
In this paper, an Inchworm Boring Robot was proposed for lunar subsurface exploration.
Minglong, "Structure and control strategy for a piezoelectric inchworm actuator equipped with MEMS ridges," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol.
Zu, "A control methodology for an inchworm piezomotor," Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, vol.
The first image I saw at the range during setup was a ripened head of field grass, with something crawling up the right side When I adjusted the focus, the "something" resolved into an inchworm on a head of grass about 60 yards away.
Linear inchworm mechanism based on giant magnetostrictive and piezoelectric materials, Journal of Tsinghua University 45(8): 1055-1057.
Many types of locomotion have been tested, including worm, inchworm, snake, rolling track, caterpillar, cilia surface, hexapod, slinky, spider, cluster walk, and car.
Largay, who went by the nickname Inchworm, got lost after leaving the trail on July 22, 2013, to relieve herself and set up her final camp the next day, wardens said.
shorn of its crown of accents, even so do I live,/ blind, like and/an inchworm, spanning my hand on the paper" (Foamy Sky 188).
The poetic desolation described in stanzas one and three ("my careful singing brings no comfort" and "these desiccated words do not flow freely") is followed in stanza four by the thrilling discovery of "sow-thistle, bird-dung, inchworm, stonework, fountain." The actual texture and specificity of these heavily stressed words dramatically play off of the more 'ordinary' colorless language that surrounds the line.
TIP: Don't move your leg forward using your hips--use the toes to "inchworm" ahead.
The online INCHWORM program was also used for the confirmation of size of the alleles estimates the length of the alleles on the basis of electrophoresis mobility (http://molecularworkshop.com/programs/inchworm.html).
Of more understandable delight to children will be Surveying (1993), a video in which an inchworm races across a map until it comes to the edge.
From Taiwan, Chang Chen's debut as a director, "Inchworm," pictures an unemployed protagonist seeking emotional comfort in video games and memories of a lost family life.