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Definition of S-shaped
1. Adjective. Shaped in the form of the letter S.
Lexicographical Neighbors of S-shaped
Literary usage of S-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... solitary, s-shaped, much enlarged above the ovary, greenish. E. states.
—Occasionally cult. Roots used in medicine. Reputed remedy for snake bites. ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Modified from Edinger. and giving rise to the hippocampal region or cornu Ammonis,
with the gyrus hippocampi, whose section is s-shaped, and the gyrus un- ..."
3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Modified from Edinger. and giving rise to the hippocampal region or cornu Ammonis,
with the gyrus hippocampi, whose section is s-shaped, and the gyrus un- ..."
4. Pictorial Composition in Photography by Arthur Hammond (1920)
"... —The Rectangle —The S-Shaped Curve— The Figure 8 —The Hands in Portraiture —
The Placing of the Head in the Picture Space — Groups—The Background. ..."
5. The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the by Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Henry Watson Kent, Florence Nightingale Levy (1909)
"Moulded base; flat lid with serrated lip, double spiral purchase; s-shaped handle
with rat-tail, cherub head on whistle end. Engr.: PES, on bottom. ..."
6. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"105 (106) Subterminal claw of furca decidedly s-shaped (Fig. ... 106 (105)
Subterminal claw not s-shaped (Fig. 1297 c) 107 107 Shell with dorsal and ventral ..."
7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1896)
"About a foot will generally be found sufficient An s-shaped piece of ...
The s-shaped piece of glass tubing below the junction of the tubes coining from the ..."
8. The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the by Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Henry Watson Kent, Florence Nightingale Levy (1909)
"Moulded base; flat lid with serrated lip, double spiral purchase; s-shaped handle
with rat-tail, cherub head on whistle end. Engr.: PES, on bottom. ..."
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