tilt the balance/scales

Examples of tilted

tilted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Hardgrounds overlain by metalliferous oxides locally record a hiatus in sedimentation, possibly on a tilted platform.
The mirror is tilted in order to reinject the reflected beam along an optimal return path back into the gain region of the plasma.
Throughout 1968 the balance of payments still tilted heavily towards deficit, and sterling holders continued to diversify.
Finally, the two two-layer vortices are assumed to be vertically tilted.
The displacement of the tilted interface is partitioned between a background seiche and an initial condition for evolution of a long-wave packet.
In particular, cellular models rely on the addition of random perturbations to an initially flat, tilted surface in order to start the process of channellization.
The classical tomography approach requires many pictures of the same particles tilted into different orientations.
The two other cameras are mounted in a turret that is remotely panned and tilted as required for guidance by the operator.
As the effort to act collectively encountered frustration, the energy tilted from idealist education and corporatist participation towards spectatorship, buttressed by inflating rhetoric.
In the present experiments, the whole tank was tilted at an angle to the horizontal.
The detector is tilted to increase the resolution.
In each experiment a standing wave was generated from an initially tilted interface, representing the tilted thermocline in a lake.
The angle that the fish tilted its ventral to dorsal body axis from vertical was calculated in each frame.
Then an external perturbation brings it in a 20 forward tilted position.
Her despair tilted over into a more sinister rhetoric.
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