Indentations

By the 13th week of gestation, the first indentations in the fingertips, known as primary ridges, start to form.

We made sure the pink and white balls with scalloped indentations weren’t all clustered together.

In response, hundreds of farmers in Mr. Badiane’s town of Ndiob have revived the ancient technique of involves making small indentations in the ground that capture rainfall and increase the fertility of the soil.

The surface is dotted with indentations that add a sparkle, similar to a surface paved in small diamonds, but inverted.

Blemishes from tire manufacturing, one or more indentations in the sidewall from tire assembly, or scrapes/bruises from light curb rubs are not major issues.

Each medal features the words "Tokyo 2020" in braille while there are a series of circular indentations on the sides – one for gold, two for silver and three for bronze.

A technique used in the popular frescoes of Michelangelo and Raphael was to scrape indentations into certain areas of the plaster while still wet to increase the illusion of depth and to accent certain areas over others.

CD data is represented as tiny indentations known as "pits", encoded in a spiral track moulded into the top of the polycarbonate layer.

Exceptions include a small tidal portion within the District of Columbia, and the border with Virginia being delineated from "point to point" (thus various bays and shoreline indentations lie in Virginia).

Not infrequently they are partially subdivided by indentations which encroach upon their margins.

Slight indentations on the backs of cards revealed the symbols embossed on card faces.

Small protrusions, indentations, and cutouts, prevent the diskette from being inserted backward or upside down: of the eight ways one might try to insert the diskette, only one is correct, and only that one will fit.

Some sets use marbles in a board with indentations.

The ball is often covered with indentations to reduce aquaplaning that can cause an inconsistent ball speed on wet surfaces.

The grit wheels at opposite edges of the sheet press against resilient polyurethane -coated rollers and form tiny indentations in the sheet.

The Morse code was developed so that operators could translate the indentations marked on the paper tape into text messages.

The traces of the ruptures are shown by the projections of Europe and Africa and the indentations of America in the parts of the coasts of these three said lands that face each other to anyone who, using a map of the world, carefully considered them.

The writing process does not produce indentations (pits); instead, the heat permanently changes the optical properties of the dye, changing the reflectivity of those areas.

They can be sculpted into various shapes during this process, sometimes resulting in shallow thumbprint-like indentations on their surfaces called regmaglypts.

They generally have one long axis and concave or convex edges, and it is possible for them to have a gibbosity (hump) or indentations.