hollow shell

collocation in English

meaningsofhollowandshell

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hollow
adjective
uk
/ˈhɒl.əʊ/us
/ˈhɑː.loʊ/
having a hole or empty ...
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shell
noun
uk
/ʃel/us
/ʃel/
the hard outer covering of something, especially nuts, eggs, and ...
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(Definition ofhollowandshellfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Six hundred times solid density compression of directly drivenhollowshellpellets.
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The ionization 3 ms later is ahollowshellon the outer 0.5 cm of the gas distribution.
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This is probably due to instability in thehollowshell.
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The second issue concerns the democratic clause of the cooperation agreements, which could often be described as a clause in form only: ahollowshell.
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Without the commitment to do this, a single airspace would be ahollowshell, with no hope of success.
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But legal security is ahollowshellif the price which the tenant has to pay is too high.
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The council chamber will then become ahollowshell.
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Thehollowshellroll rotates over a stationary suction box, normally placed at the top centre or rotated just down machine.
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Thehollowshellof the band, with a couple new faces, pulled together and started writing and recording.
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The remaining liquid is then poured out to leave ahollowshell.
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The couch roll is ahollowshell, drilled with many thousands of precisely spaced holes of about 4 to 5 mm diameter.
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Often called "microballoons", they consist of ahollowshellseveral tens of nanometers thick and approximately one micrometer in diameter.
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A thinhollowshellcan have more than the bare-sphere critical mass, as can a cylinder, which can be arbitrarily long without ever reaching criticallity.
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By 1987 the original oak tree was ahollowshellsurrounding a new sapling grown from one of its acorns.
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In this process, he first wrapped a model with bandages in sections, then removed the hardened forms and put them back together with more plaster to form ahollowshell.
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Bfr forms a roughly spherical,hollowshellfrom 24 identical subunits, incorporating 12 haem groups.
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Its obvious advantage is that ahollowshellof plutonium, shock-deformed and driven inward toward its empty center, would carry momentum into its violent assembly as a solid sphere.
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The main buildings on the square consisted originally of hollow shells, constructed from marine plywood facades mounted onto steel frames.
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The machines are nothing more than hollow shells.
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