Sentences with phrase «by tenths of a millimeter»

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The nail had missed a main artery by around a tenth of a millimeter, Bergeson said.

It consists mostly of light - sensing cells, but one tenth of a millimeter of its thickness is populated by image - processing circuitry that is capable of detecting edges (boundaries between light and dark) and motion for about a million tiny image regions.

But new modeling studies by Marchant and his team have shown that sublimation of deeply buried ice is extremely slow, less than a tenth of a millimeter per year.

The device developed by Panchapakesan's team includes an array of tiny elements, each about a tenth of an inch (3 millimeters) across.

The target shrinks to one - tenth of a millimeter when struck by the beams.

The complete text was scanned one - tenth of a millimeter at a time with a 10,200 - pixel scanner by technicians from DigitalFusion.

RiseRate = 32; # tenths of a millimeter per year TotalRise = 0; # zero starting sea - level rise for -LRB-(i = 0; i < 2013 - 125; i + +)-RRB-; # loop year - by - year do -LRB-(RiseRate + = 1)-RRB-; # the rise - rate increases -LRB-(TotalRise + = $ RiseRate)-RRB-; # the total rise increases done; # now convert integer arithmetic to floating - point echo «$ TotalRise / 254/12» bc - l

Thickness has dropped by just two - tenths of a millimeter, and weight has dropped only a few grams.