drumlike

drumlike

(ˈdrʌmˌlaɪk)
adj
resembling a drum in form or function
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On March 21 in Dallas at the American Physical Society meeting, members of the NIST team presented data showing that their drumlike membrane had reached the ground state about 60 percent of the time.
The technology uses a drumlike high-voltage electrode partially submerged in liquid to blow nanofibers out of a thin film of liquid, rather than off a wire or capillary, so there are no nozzles, needles, or spinnerets to clog or dean.
Architect Sir Norman Foster took on the job of making the courtyard area usable while keeping the historic round Reading Room intact--indeed, he enhanced its drumlike structure with a noble limestone exterior, covering the humble brick that was never intended to be seen, and restored its glorious interior.
That's why the 38-foot drumlike glass atrium with a spiral staircase was added to the Huntington Ave.
Ramps and their surrounding walls are of in-situ concrete, forming a solid drumlike core that stiffens and stabilizes the whole.
whose limed hair raged taut in the wind, drumlike as an umbrella
Wall," a computerized video wall installation with twelve monitors, functioned as a table of contents for the exhibit by enabling visitors to use a drumlike interface to re-narrative images from the other pieces and to combine them with live images of visitors entering the gallery and with on-line images from the internet.
In these years Leger had evolved a handsome notation of loosely striped drumlike forms, which, when he furnishes a title (like Woman Sewing), allows us to pick out cadences of planes and angles, arrangements of truncated cones and open cylinders.
This passage itself forms the descending ramp it names, made up of regular horizontal lines each containing "four or five feet." The corresponding passage in Rich's poem also gives a drumlike emphasis to the word down: