Sentences with word «centimeter»

During the two years in which the dikes were broken, the polder rebounded with tens of centimeters of sediment deposited by daily tides.

At the moment, the solar cells can generate roughly 2.5 milliwatts per square centimeter in typical sunlight conditions.

«There are millions of species of microbes per cubic centimeter of soil,» Brown said.

Meanwhile, physicists and chemists at HZB produced graphene surfaces several square centimeters in size so that edge effects play hardly any role in comparison to the surface processes.

Because that second half is moving at a few centimeters per second, its time should appear to slow down just a bit thanks to the weird time dilation predicted by Einstein's theory of special relativity.

It relies on a pair of concentric cylindrical shells a few centimeters long.

The work in the lab was done with very small cylinders — on the order of centimeters long.

Your health care provider will measure the dilation in centimeters from zero (no dilation) to 10 (fully dilated).

I can see using a home flush for small stones a few centimeters wide.

On reaching hospital I was a couple of centimeters dilated and meconium was detected.

Roll the dough to be about half centimeter thick (or less if you would like to have more swirls seen in the profile) and to be as long as the inner perimeter of your baking dish (use a piece of string to measure it).

They thought hard about the potential capabilities of a 10 - centimeter cube with a mass limit of 1 kilogram and found the perfect life - size demonstration model: a plastic box used for storing Beanie Babies.

Guadalupe shares the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion with the Channel Islands of California in the United States, but the island was at one time practically denuded of all plants higher than a few centimeters by up to 100,000 [note 1] feral goats.

The Greenland fossils are mounds of minerals a few centimeters tall that may have been deposited by clusters of microbes several hundred million years after Earth formed.

Using such methods, an object just several centimeters in height can take hours to construct, relegating 3D printing to the development of models that guide manufacturing, but do not produce the actual manufactured goods.

«Tracking debris in the Earth «s orbit with centimeter precision using efficient laser technology.»

But the lattices printed for this study are just centimeters across, points out Jürgen Groll, a materials scientist at the University of Würzburg in Germany not involved in the work, so «scaling up is really going to be an issue if you want to deploy these commercially.»

These objects range in size from about centimeter - long chunks of material to bus - sized satellites.

A 5.5 - meter python, for example, can create a force of about 1 kilogram per square centimeter on its victim — about six times as rigorous as a firm handshake.

He and roboticists Markus Waibel and Dario Floreano, both from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, started with real - life robots that are just a couple of centimeters high.

But the pressures reported at Fukushima — more than seven kilograms per square centimeter at times — more than double the pressures even the hardened vent was designed to handle.

To dig a few centimeters deeper into Mercury's surface, solar physicist Amir Caspi and planetary scientist Constantine Tsang of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues will use an infrared camera, specially built by Alabama - based Southern Research, that detects wavelengths between 3 and 5 micrometers.

But in the 1980s, Gordon Hendler, now at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, discovered that the brittle star Ophiocoma wendtii can spot dark areas from several centimeters away, enabling it to seek refuge from predators.

Recent Progress in Understanding and Projecting Regional and Global Mean Sea Level Change -LSB-...] These new results increase confidence in the AR5 likely range, indicating that there is a greater probability that sea level rise by 2100 will lie in this range with a corresponding decrease in the likelihood of an additional contribution of several tens of centimeters above the likely range.

One day in the lab, Sweeney put two plants a few centimeters apart on the same Petri plate and made two small cuts on the leaf of one to simulate an insect's attack.

To create these structures, the researchers introduced a co-assembly method in which tiny, spherical particles and matrix precursors are deposited simultaneously from a single mixture to produce defect - free films over centimeter scales.

Tracks from the early Cambrian show that animals started to burrow several centimeters into the sediments beneath the mat, which provided access to previously untapped nutrients — as well as a refuge from predators.

Necrosis of the blood vessels that feed his hips have caused one to collapse, leaving one leg several centimeters shorter, and he has a slow, limping gait.

A small metallic strip just centimeters long can be easily excited by a flow along its length, in a manner analogous to a flapping flag.

You'll hear the nurses and doctors talking about how many centimeters dilated and what percentage effaced, but what about when they add another number like -3 or 2?

Like Penn's Dick Tracy - like villain face makeup, it's a goofy coloring that makes Gangster Squad stand out just a few centimeters more.

Cars screeched in crazed circles around one another: shooting sideways around cones, through cones, bass thrumming, coming within inches of the concrete barricades, within centimeters of one another, maybe tapping each other ever so lightly, as lightly as 2,400 flying pounds of metal can, flags and pole - mounted GoPros and whole aerated mounds of tires stretching out behind them.

Symptoms of infection are general flu - like symptoms, headache, fever, and in the case of Lyme disease, may include a rash that is at least 5 centimeters [nearly 2 inches] in diameter and which expands over time,» Rochon said.

Just 1 foot to the left with Ox's shot, and a few centimeters lower with Ramirez's or whoever it was» header, and with the same effort and all the song and dance, it could have been Chelski 1 — Arsenal 0.

It was awesome to see that T4's Bag - Drop belt is mere centimeters off the ground.

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This Israeli startup has developed a wireless charging system that can be installed just 8 centimeters under existing roads, which can then automatically charge electric vehicles outfitted with a companion system simply by driving on the electric road.

The white one on top, is kiiinda short, and I needed those extra centimeters of fabric, plus the black one I'm wearing under the white one, has a beautiful necklace attached to it, which made my white dress look way more interesting.

Using data from Global Positioning System (GPS) stations and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images collected during successive satellite fly - overs, ASU researchers were able to measure changes in surface elevation during a time period spanning the main Gorkha event, and several major aftershocks, with centimeter accuracy.

Subtracting out radio signals 100,000 times stronger from our own galaxy and from television broadcasts, they detected the blurred 21 - centimeter signals from galaxies about 6 billion to 12 billion light - years away.

FINESSE will have the luxury of analyzing up to a thousand planets, albeit with a smaller 75 - centimeter telescope.

As Laila's vivid, green eyes begin to dart around once more, searching for a non-existent escape route, the beak of the hawk is now only centimeters above, and our understanding of the film's title takes on a new and frightening meaning.

Though her classes are regularly packed, with sometimes less than two centimeters between mats, and her wisdom sought after, Rabbath makes every student feel seen.

Check out this awesome student - friendly assessment that includes 12 questions on measuring using centimeters and inches.

Wood's LMT featured a one - centimeter layer of mercury placed in a rotating dish.

Measure to the nearest Quarter Centimeter Task Cards includes 3 math centers.