The shape of the world a technology is born into eventually, inevitably dictates its fate.

The shape of your room will probably dictate the arrangement, although if you have a generous-sized room, you may be able to change the shape of the actual work area with room dividers.

Figurative art is a powerful tool for the exploration of how the shape of a person's body dictates the contours of the life.

The size and shape can dictate some performance characteristics of the overall turbocharger.

Often the size and shape of a plate will dictate a particularly unusual use of space, especially effective in the dream sequence where the sleeping monkeys are squashed into their frame-cages.

Each of the more than 50 mirrors found has a unique design, but the essentially circular shape of the mirror presumably dictated the sophisticated abstract curvilinear motifs that dominate their decoration.

Thus, the size and shape of the casting dictate the duration of martempering.

Like many buildings in Saepinum, the macellum was trapezoidal, a shape dictated by the slightly off-kilter intersection of the decumanus and the cardus.

The common adage "no foot, no horse" rings true in that the shape and soundness of a horse's hoof dictates the tasks it can perform.

The irregular shape of the lot, created by the intersection of this major diagonal avenue and the grid of L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the Federal City, dictated the shape of the building.