Sentences with phrase «centimeters away»

... Apple clarified that FaceID works best at a distance of 25 to 50 centimeters away from your face, or about 10 to 20 inches.

Guide the treat from his nose level up over his head, the treat should be a few centimeters away from your dog at all times.

Yet these sperm can only swim a couple of centimeters before tuckering out, and botanists have long wondered how female plants can produce their version of seeds — sporophytes — with the closest guy 10 to 20 centimeters away.

They then moved the sample to one side and applied a much stronger pulse — 10 kilovolts — which has the opposite effect, flinging the atoms to a detector 20 centimeters away.

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.

Then they injected capsaicin, the active molecule in hot pepper, under the skin and lightly tapped the area with a blunt, rigid nylon filament — starting at six centimeters away, and tapping closer and closer to the injection site.

After all, the caller's cerebral cortex is just centimeters away from radiation broadcast from the phone's antenna.

But if the ripples came from less than 8 centimeters away, the rivals grew quiet, perhaps preparing to fight or flee.

Dybala and Higuain both slid in at full stretch, but the former was centimeters away from turning it into the goal.

For starters, Bluetooth has a much longer range than NFC, as it can reach up to 50 meters compared to NFC's need to have the two devices centimeters away from each other.

Even if you don't believe that's what Watson really meant, you'd still have to see as surreal the fact that people were attacking his statement on Africa while ignoring a vastly more outrageous and transparently hateful comment just a column - centimeter away.

Not exact matches

Research from California Institute of Technology suggests that faces photographed from just 45 centimeters — about 1.5 feet — away are considered less trustworthy, attractive, and competent than faces photographed from 135 centimeters, about 4.5 feet, away.

Topher the moon is only moving away at a few centimeters a year (I think it is around 3.7 cm per year), and it is known that it is currently moving away faster than it was in the past.

The African aid's epidemic is just God's way of clearing away the sinners to them, the prejudged, the cursed, the afflicted, the gays, all just a problem of human waste to them, and yet they fight tooth and nail to save a few centimeters of cell's on some person they don't knows uterine wall.

It's enough to make any woman who has been sitting on 3 centimeters for 10 hours to start patterned breathing right away to get things going.

She checked me and said right away, «You're 10 centimeters.

Despite this good news, the team's data also show that the radioisotopes seem to be stuck firmly to the soil, mainly in the top five centimeters (see «Skin deep»), and are not being washed away by rain.

Affix a two - centimeter - square patch of thick gray cardboard (about the same color as the TV snow) 12 centimeters or so away from the white cardboard.

The disappearance of heavy glaciers is allowing the earth's crust below to rebound — «remarkably fast,» Domack says, and far greater than the 0.8 centimeter estimated from a GPS station 150 kilometers away.

«While our moon is moving away from earth at a few centimeters per year, Phobos is moving toward Mars at a few centimeters per year, so it is almost inevitable that it will either crash into Mars or break apart,» Black said.

Try doing this on your iPhone: Researchers have developed a prototype «supercamera» that stitches together images from 98 individual cameras (each with a 14 - megapixel sensor) to create a 960 - million - pixel image with enough resolution to spot a 3.8 - centimeter - wide object 1 kilometer away.

The 5 - centimeter - wide green crabs, Bertness figured, would have no trouble kicking the smaller marsh crabs out of their burrows and making them skitter away.

The goal is to dislodge any particle remnants of the bomb - making process, including residue from liquid bombs, and carry them aloft to an ion - mobility spectrometer, where the amount of time it takes a molecule to move down a 10 - centimeter electrically charged tube gives away its identity.

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.

Most of these fragments moved away from one another at about 5 centimeters per year, taking millions of years to arrive at their present locations.

«We're measuring the elevation of a liquid surface on another body 10 astronomical units away from the sun to an accuracy of roughly 40 centimeters.

On inspection, a pineapple - size section on the 6.63 - inch -(16.84 - centimeter --RRB- thick carbon steel lid that holds in the pressurized, fission - heated water in the site's sole reactor had been entirely eaten away by boric acid formed from a leak.

As soon as two days later, Phoenix could deploy its robotic arm to begin scraping away the five - or six - inch (13 - to 15 - centimeter) layer of loose topsoil using a backhoe - like motion.

«If you imagine a snail on the recently discovered Earth - like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri — a bit over four light years away — moving at one centimeter a second, that's the angular motion we're resolving here,» study co-author Roger W. Romani, professor of physics at Stanford University, said in a statement.

Biologists had assumed, however, that spiders would only «hear» such nearby sounds — ones from no more than a few centimeters (an inch or so) away.

A searchlight 5 miles from you may look as bright as a penlight 6 inches (15 centimeters) away from you.The same is true for stars.

To see if your ankles are too tight, Reavy suggests this test: Stand with your toes 12 centimeters (about 5 inches) away from a wall, and then try to bend your knee so that it touches the wall.

I cut away all the hair and found a large boil - like substance that is quite flat, white and circular with a diameter of about 5 centimeters.

Based on this historical record and the fact that the Laurentide melted away under summertime temperatures similar to those expected in Greenland by the end of this century, Carlson and his colleagues forecast glacial melting that contributes somewhere between 2.8 inches (seven centimeters) and 5.1 inches (13 centimeters) of sea level rise per year, or as much as a 4.3 - foot (1.3 - meter) increase by 2100.

The Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun thanks to the heat of the sun expanding the sun - facing side — on a very warm and sunny day it can lean up to approximately 7 inches (18 centimeters).