Everybody expects to be above average, so you get this ratchet effect.
As the piston descended, a ratchet engaged the piston rod and engine shaft and thus power was transmitted.
According to the present invention, at least one recess is provided in the shank spindle of a ratchet head to receive a spring therein.
Can the car parked in a quiet place, gradually pulled the handbrake, the number of the ratchet pulling while clicking sound announced, until the handle to the end stop.
This creates a ratchet effect.
They have been driven by a ratchet effect.
According to a study at Harvard University, stress can ratchet up blood pressure and turn up the risk of clotting.
Cad Bane and his cadre of bounty hunters are on-hand to ratchet up the action... and the artists at Lucasfilm Animation are only happy to follow suit!
Richard's wretched ratchet wrench.
A ratchet slider is movably mounted to the horizontal guide frame.
While autobots encounter a mysterious muscle car creating havoc in detroit ratchet keeps flashing back to his "tour of duty" in the great autobot-decepticon wars.
Beijing helped ratchet up the municipal building boom in early 2009, when in response to the global recession, it pressed local governments to think big and announced a huge economic stimulus package.
He made a small ratchet of panic and that was it.
The closure preferably is a dual-wall closure having an internal skirt with the internal thread and an external skirt with the ratchet fingers.
This chair has a ratchet adjusting height below it.
Because the ratchet can be scaled to large sizes, it offers a new way to separate solid pollutants-such as soot, viruses or cell fragments-from a continuous stream of fluid.
Wedge locking device and unidirectional ratchet device are mainly used abroad and wedge lock device is mainly applied in China.
The ribosomes were flash-frozen at various mid-swivel and mid-ratchet configurations and examined under a powerful electron microscope.
This trapping of heavier objects — moving them upward when one would expect them to fall down — is the essence of a ratchet.
This is known as Muller's ratchet.
brace[hand tools; incl. ratchet type]