Alvar Aalto

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

Finnish Architect

Envision common tube-shaped items to grasp the concept.

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Technical Usage

Highlight the functional aspect of tubular items in technical settings.

Technical Detail

Use 'tubular' to describe naturally occurring tube-like forms in biology.

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Scientific Precision

Understand that 'tubular' describes a specific wave shape in surfing.

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 So let me show you how the system works. We basically take waste water with algae of our choice in it, and we circulate it through this floating structure, this tubular, flexible plastic structure, and it circulates through this thing, and there's sunlight of course, it's at the surface, and the algae grow on the nutrients.

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 And I memorized everything. I memorized in my anatomy class the origins and exertions of every muscle, every branch of every artery that came off the aorta, differential diagnoses obscure and common. I even knew the differential diagnosis in how to classify renal tubular acidosis. And all the while,

Brian Goldman: Doctors...

 them knit them or we can make them like you see here this is actually like a cotton candy machine you saw this spray going in that was like the fibers of the cotton candy creating this structure this tubular eye structure which is a biomaterial that we can then use to help

Printing a human kidney...

 to the microscopic world of our cells. Using principles of origami, medical engineers have re-imagined the traditional stent graft, a tube used to open and support damaged blood vessels. Through tessellation, the rigid tubular structure folds into a compact sheet

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 the macro pen of micro stoma known as the barreleye fish is small and dark with large fins a tiny mouth an unusual barrel eyes under a transparent dome the two green spheres in the video are the lenses of its tubular eyes the eyes are

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 Tubular frames proved superior at absorbing and transferring the force of wind to a building's foundation. And since the exterior walls could bear the bulk of the load, internal supporting columns could be removed to maximize space.

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 large fins a tiny mouth an unusual barrel eyes under a transparent dome the two green spheres in the video are the lenses of its tubular eyes the eyes are enclosed within the transparent shield sort of like the glass canopy of a jet

A Fish With a...

 barrel eyes under a transparent dome the two green spheres in the video are the lenses of its tubular eyes the eyes are enclosed within the transparent shield sort of like the glass canopy of the Jetfire above the mouth the two dark

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 So I got decked out in a pair of forest green scrubs, and I was laid on a gurney and wheeled into an fMRI machine. If you're unfamiliar with that technology, essentially, an fMRI machine is a big, tubular magnet

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 mysteries of vernacular pants an item of clothing that covers the body from the waist to the ankles or knees each leg having a separate tubular piece we also know them most trousers the history of

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