in tow

Examples of tow

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It is a microscopic model, that is, it traces the motion and records the characteristics of each tow.
These studies employed horizontally towed grids in stratified tanks.
Express towed the airship around the headland and released her into a northwesterly wind and snow in which she was soon lost from view.
Both frontal and side impact crashes in which the vehicles sustained sufficient damage to be towed away from the scene are considered.
Population densities were estimated every 3 d by means of a vertical tow.
A further three were towed in by the catchers on the 29th.
However, she did not sink and was towed ashore and set on fire.
For instance, the absolute percentage prediction error for the observation whose average tow delay is approximately 0.00015 min is roughly 50,000%.
Due to the service time distribution and queuing effects, major changes occur in the tow headways distribution after passing through a lock.
Such changes in the tow headway distribution affect the traffic behavior in the next link.
Finally, for quantitative velocity measurement we needed a mechanism to tow a sphere and some type of measuring instrumentation through the flow.
One ship being pulled along by another is under tow.
Ragin himself, sporting a cane, was pictured with three dalmatians in tow.
The series of tows on the bottom revealed that diversity and biomass were enormous relative to the water column.
The characteristics of tows include their origins and destinations, direction of motion, speed, and arrival time at various points.
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