Sentences with phrase «centimetres across»

He shook his head and, as if to emphasize his words, pushed his empty cup and saucer a few centimetres across the table.

In 1981, the observatory received a third telescope measuring 40 centimetres across.

It will eventually grow into a thick disc - shaped creature 20 centimetres across, known colloquially as a sea biscuit.

The patch is a flexible square just a couple of centimetres across that sticks to skin.

The largest conventional LCD prototypes are around 42 centimetres across, and manufacturers are having a hard time making them bigger (Technology, 16 May).

Of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth's orbit, more than 20,000 are larger than 10 centimetres across — big enough to smash a piece off a satellite and create even more orbiting junk.

Chimpanzee nests are about 90 centimetres across, but mine were longer because I'm longer than a chimpanzee.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and the Humboldt University, both in Berlin, have used underwater electrical discharges to generate luminous plasma clouds resembling ball lightning that last for nearly half a second and are up to 20 centimetres across.

The discs, at 13 centimetres across, are a little wider than conventional DVDs, and slightly thicker.

«We know from the spacing of the footprint trackways and a belly - mark that it was around 600 centimetres across and 2 metres long, and was moving through the sand like an alligator,» says Tucker.

The primary mirror in the system proposed for Spain is 63.5 centimetres across, a quarter the diameter of Hubble's mirror.

The Hubble telescope, with an optical system considered comparable to those of the finest US spy satellites, would pick out objects only 10 to 20 centimetres across if it was aimed at Earth.

But if they are part of an assembly which comes in a box several centimetres across and can be picked up by hand, people might buy them.

Bar - Yosef thinks the shards are the remains of crude pots and bowls, probably about 20 centimetres across.

Shoei Kataoka of Sharp said last week that his company's largest display to date measures 42 centimetres across the diagonal.

The researchers have printed all the circuits onto a single silicon wafer, 20 centimetres across, which allowed them to incorporate many more connections.

«A piece of space junk just 10 centimetres across could catastrophically damage a typical satellite»

Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University in Chicago was searching for specimens of fish teeth when he discovered one nearly 12 centimetres across.

The samples in Elsila's study came from four squares of aluminium foil, each about 1 centimetre across, that sat next to a lightweight sponge - like «aerogel» that was designed to capture dust from the comet's atmosphere, or coma.

One just 1 centimetre across could disable a spacecraft.

This is why chips are rarely made larger than around 1 centimetre across; at larger sizes the probability of faults in each chip would be too high.

For now, Smalley's team can only make simple outlines about a centimetre across — the particle can't move fast enough to trick our eyes into seeing a persistent image larger than that.

Not exact matches

Mr Moon asked as he first shook hands with Kim across the ten centimetre high concrete block marking the Military Demarcation Line along the border.

And it is clear that the main rings are very thin — less than 1 kilometre from one side to the other — and consist mainly of chunks of water ice typically 1 centimetre to 5 metres across,...

Joe gave Penny a rectangular piece of card 12 centimetres by 8 centimetres with the instruction that she had to draw two intersecting straight lines across the card from adjacent corners.

Betzig's group has made 400 dots in a grid 2.3 micrometres across, corresponding to 7 billion bits per square centimetre.

Drillers pump a mixture of treacly gel and sandy grains down the pipe at high pressure, and this creates a disc - shaped crack hundreds of metres high and across, but only 1 centimetre wide.

Luis Espinasa, a cave biologist at nearby Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, first came across the 2 - centimetre - long shrimp while hiking with his young son Jordi shortly after moving to the area.

The processes that convert these tiny grains, each a few millionths of a metre (a micron) across, into aggregates a few centimetres in size, and the mechanism for making kilometre - sized «planetesimals» into planetary cores, are both well understood.

The pillars are only a few tens of nanometres apart, which lets the team cram tens of thousands of spots of colour across every centimetre of the surface.

A centrally positioned free - standing central display is the main eye - catching feature across the centre console — with a screen diagonal of 17.78 centimetres (7 inches) or 21.33 centimetres (8.4 inches) if COMAND Online is specified.

The researchers found that between 1992 and 2016, the flow of most of the region's glaciers increased by between 20 and 30 centimetres per day, equating to an average 13 % speedup across the glaciers of Western Palmer Land as a whole.