tumble to something

Examples of tumbling

tumbling

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

Indeed, flagella handedness has no effect on the tumbling of short bacteria, as they make many turns before ending at a new angle.
This results in an increase in the tumbling frequency of the swimming cell, which is the basis of taxis as mentioned before.
Although both the 'comic and grotesque genres broadly were given over to caricature' (109), the latter distinguished itself by extreme postures and tumbling.
The relaxation times of small molecules tumbling rapidly in solution are typically long, while those for large proteins and protein-bound ligands are substantially shorter.
For example, when a gymnast learns a new and complex tumbling skill, he/she must first resolve the relationship between individual and environmental constraints.
For attractive (repulsive) bias, they simply detect the concentration as they swim, and if the concentration increases (decreases) they delay their tumbling.
Target in space may move in various modes, such as free-floating, tumbling, and so on.
The words come tumbling out, with the odd pause as he searches for a more exact or colourful phrase.
It can be subject to transformations, such as rotation, tilting, tumbling or mirroring, using similar mathematical operations to those used to manipulate a graphical object.
It just sort of kept tumbling out with those chords.
I have been unable to mention, much less do justice to, all the many themes and arguments that come tumbling off the pages of this book.
These techniques effectively slow the fast relaxation of magnetization that occurs for large, slowly tumbling molecules in solution, preventing the broadening of resonance lines beyond detection.
They learn to sit independently and to use their stable torso as a base of support for reaching in many areas of the space without tumbling over.
It is thus significant that these instabilities resurface at a moment of dramatic tension, and that their transformation, as heightened by tumbling melodies and fluctuating tempi, highlights her distress.
It might seem that this is a very feeble apparatus with which to construct institutional structures; surely the whole thing could come tumbling down at any moment.
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