Sentences with phrase «centimeters per»

And they should have recalled that at most places in the deep sea, sediments accumulate at only a few centimeters per thousand years, with the churning by burrowing worms blurring any record of change.

Surface winds tend to be of order meters per second; ocean currents of order centimeters per second.

That means that while you thought the typical displacement of the platform was 10 centimeters per rat, the «natural variability» caused by rats jumping on the platform is much greater than you thought.

Using the same Uighur wheat production records available to the curator, you estimate that his notes mean that the typical displacement is 10 centimeters per rat.

Fans of the work of director Makoto Shinkai (Voices of a Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, 5 Centimeters per Second) won't want to miss out on Anime Expo this year.

We can talk about our favorite new series release in 2012 (mine were Limit and 5 Centimeters per Second, both from Vertical), but what about best continuing series?

However, the 488 runs a turbocharged 3.9 - liter V8 — with 488 cubic centimeters per cylinder.

5 Centimeters per Second was a trilogy of vignettes about a couple who loved each other once but where split apart by geography, and their attempts and failures to reconnect over a lifetime.

A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jeewoon)-- 14, 2005 5 Centimeters per Second (Makoto Shinkai)-- 4, 2007 Ace Attorney (Takashi Miike)-- 21, 2012 The Garden of Words (Makoto Shinkai)-- 24, 2013 Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)-- 10, 2015

5 Centimeters per Second (Makoto Shinkai) 2.

The effect is minute — it causes the star to move back and forth by no more than 51 centimeters per second (1.8 km / hour), about the speed of a baby crawling.

The movement towards Canada was at around 7 to 8 centimeters per year, Adhikari said, and the movement towards the U.K. is now about 16 to 18 centimeters per year.

More precise instruments are being installed at the moment, such as the SPRESSO that would be operational in 2016 at the Very Large Telescope in Chile with an accuracy of 10 centimeters per second (for comparison, the gravitational pull of the Earth over the Sun causes an attraction of 9 centimeters per second).

Using the same Uighur wheat production records available to the curator, you estimate that his notes mean that the typical displacement is 10 centimeters per rat.

That means that while you thought the typical displacement of the platform was 10 centimeters per rat, the «natural variability» caused by rats jumping on the platform is much greater than you thought.

At this scale, light, the fastest thing in the universe, would travel through space at just over 2 centimeters per second.

With the daily addition of a nutrient broth to mimic liquids commonly poured into hospital sinks — like extra intravenous fluid and leftover beverages — the bacteria flourished, shimmying up the pipe at a rate of about 2.5 centimeters per day to contaminate sink drain covers.

Moreover, says Adams, the currents rarely rose above 10 centimeters per second.

From November 2004 through April 2005, typical currents at the site flowed from the north at an average speed of about 5.5 centimeters per second, the researchers report online today in Science.

In the first study, the researchers show that the earthquake occurred on the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT), the main megathrust fault along which northern India is pushing beneath Eurasia at a rate of about two centimeters per year, driving the Himalayas upward.

SandBot's limbs spin around like regular wheels but slow down briefly when they strike the ground, allowing it to scoot along loose sand at up to three centimeters per second.

The subduction zone along the western edge of South America, where the Nazca plate slides eastward beneath the South American plate at an average rate of about 6.5 centimeters per year, can indeed generate massive quakes.

These microbes oxidize sulphide and produce carbohydrates, enabling the Riftia to grow 85 centimeters per year.

With speeds of 15 centimeters per second, these currents were two to three times the norm, and they were continually changing directions.

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.

An international team, using telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, detected movement in the star — at speeds as low as 30 centimeters per second — caused by the gravity of the orbiting planets.

Of course, on Pluto this is not a fast process; the overturn within each unit happens at a rate of maybe 2 centimeters per year.»

As Earth orbits the sun, it exerts a gravitational pull that makes the sun «wobble» to and fro at a rate of up to nine centimeters per second.

Philae project manager Stephan Ulamec explained how, after impact on Wednesday, the lander rebounded at 38 centimeters per second, traveling a kilometer up in space, and a kilometer laterally across the surface.

The enticing evidence was delivered by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS instrument, which snaps photos of the comet's surface with a resolution as high as a few centimeters per pixel.

«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.

Now, a detailed look at the magnetic signatures from the lab of paleomagnetist John Tarduno of the University of Rochester in New York confirms the suspicion that the hot spot drifted southward 3 to 5 centimeters per year — faster than many crustal plates move.

Unexpectedly, the investigators found that the rate of growth of children in the short - term high - dose strategy group was about 0.23 centimeters per year less than the rate for children in the low - dose strategy group, even though the high - dose treatments were given only about two weeks per year on average.

Regardless of the functional additives, experiments showed that once a sorbent material achieved a surface area of 2,800 square meters per gram and a pore volume of 1.35 cubic centimeters per gram, neither more surface area nor larger pores made it more efficient at capturing carbon dioxide.

With a fluid velocity of about 1 to 2 centimeters per second, the jet was also powerful enough to mix shallow waters with deeper, saltier waters.

There are exceptions to this rule: The cannonball jellyfish — a seafood delicacy in Asia — shoots through the water at 15 centimeters per second, a decent clip.

Here's the problem: To make a BEC, physicists use magnets and lasers to trap and chill atoms so that their speeds drop from thousands of meters per second to centimeters per second — slower than a walk.

It is said that the average first - time mom will dilate just under a centimeter per hour once active labor has started and the mom having baby number two or more will dilate just over a centimeter per hour once active labor has begun.

An infant's typical growth trajectory through the first year looks something like this: one - half inch to one inch of height each month in the first six months, and about one centimeter per month from six months to one year.

This is equivalent to 25 milliliters or cubic centimeter per pound of your baby's weight.

Coral reefs, which can grow at a rate of up to 1 centimeter per year, can protect low - lying islands and bolster their foundations to keep them above sea water.

As long as the vital signs of the mother and baby are fine and the baby's head is descending, a dilation rate of less than 1 centimeter per hour is not a sufficient reason to intervene, he says.

After painstakingly removing multiple sources of background signals, the team was left with a neutrino flux of 66 billion per square centimeter per second, close to the standard solar model prediction of 60 billion, they report online today in Nature.

There, the uplift of the mountains is extremely rapid (on the order of 1 centimeter per year, whereas in other areas 5 millimeters per year is more typical) and the river drops by 2 kilometers in elevation as it flows through the famous Tsangpo Gorge, known by some as the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon because it is so deep and long.

However, this would require measurements of Doppler velocity drifts of ∼ 1 centimeter per second per year, and astronomical spectrographs have not yet been calibrated to this tolerance.

(The change is on the order of one centimeter per second, the crawling speed of an ant, whereas an atom at room temperature moves at the speed of a supersonic jet.)

They calculated that a detector near a nuclear reactor would encounter nearly 1013 neutrinos per square centimeter per second.

The current ranged from 0.5 to 1.5 mA, with stimulation ranging between 2.5 and 7.6 microcoulombs (μC) of charge per square centimeter per phase, which is well below the safe maximum used for long - term and short - term stimulation (30 and 57 μC, respectively).24, 25 The impedance of the electrodes was between 1 and 4 kΩ.

«If these depths are translated to time — and we presuppose that the seafloor sinks into the mantle at a rate of 1 centimeter per year — it could mean that there was a period around 100 - 140 million years ago that experienced more ocean destruction.

By alternating the voltage to the two chips, they were able to cause the apparatus to swing back and forth through the coolant at about 1 centimeter per second.