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Economists suggest some of the expected increase in economic growth is a bounce off the bottom.

It's a bit like trying to work out the street plan of a city by shouting loudly and listening to the sounds that bounce off the walls.

In specular reflection, light rays bounce off the surface of an object at the same relative angle that they approached it.

Will it ever end? . . . it feels as if your prayers simply bounce off the ceiling.

I'd say the goal of this site is to basically link parents in the same situation with disabled children and bounce off ideas to one another.

The fact that parents expect their kids to bounce off the walls after they eat sweets is what perpetuates the behavior, Kanarek says.

This mitigates glare and heat gain, while allowing full sunlight to bounce off the shelf and turn the ceiling into an indirect reflector.

It invites the question: Is this just a bounce off the bottom or the start of a new uptrend?

LAW 4: Golf balls never bounce off of trees back into play. If one does, the tree is breaking a law of the universe and should be cut down.

If you are wrong, the verb will harmlessly bounce off the ship and you will lose energy.

small children, noisy and exuberant, seemed to bounce off the walls.

In bats, the sounds are made and sent out by their noses. The sounds bounce off things in their surroundings like insects or branches.

through line of sight, the signals bounce off of numerous buildings and obstacles before reaching the base station.

The sounds bounce off rock layers below the sea floor and are picked up by the phones.

Without the tunnel mouth being properly set up a derailed train will bounce off an invisible barrier when it tries to pass under the ground.

Japan is to launch a "space yacht" propelled by solar particles that bounce off its kite-shaped sails.

Arrows that bounce off the target or pass through are also counted.

They emit high frequency pulses of sound through their mouth or nose which bounce off surfaces and objects around them.

Last, the Radio Plasma Imager sends out pulses of radio waves that bounce off clouds of charged particles.

It's actually fairly satisfying to just watch the effects as things bounce off immovable obstacles.

Shear, clip, blankets, bat, echolocation, pitch, bounce off, prey.

Virtual photons bounce off a 'mirror' that vibrates at a speed that is almost as high as the speed of light.

The sound waves from these cries bounce off objects and echo back to the bat's ears.

Amid the cheer it is easy to forget that the short-lived bounce off the market's November 2008 bottom was nearly as strong as this one.

Point the remote up. See if you can get the beam to bounce off the ceiling and turn on the TV.

Their own antisemitism has caused this vast crime to bounce off their consciousness.

You guys are tough, but you're not bulletproof. I heard Matt's slugs bounce off metal.

They don't just stumble upon the application, do their work and bounce off.

If you have access to a flash that can bounce off the ceiling or walls, that could work much better.

Apple shares are up about 1. 4% to more than $374 -- so far managing to bounce off their 200-day moving average.

Gas molecules that bounce off the warm side bounce away with some extra velocity because it's warm.

Short sound waves bounce off even small objects.

Light rays are reflected when they "bounce off" an object.

Toxic Grenades now bounce off of objects (ignoring monsters ) before exploding after 1. 5 seconds.

Shouldn't the revolver bounce off his chest too?

How many of us have seen our ammunition bounce off a particularly stout piece of armor?