Sentences with phrase «centimetres at»

The width of the Michelin race slicks was increased by two centimetres to 27 centimetres at the front and by ten millimetres at the rear axle to now measure 31 centimetres.

Deep snow, 10 centimetres at least, not predicted by the forecasters.

One of the largest shark species, Greenland sharks grow from around 40 centimetres at birth to over 5 metres.

Not exact matches

Also, will it embroider well at a couple centimetres tall?

To make dulce de leche in the crock pot: fill a 250 ml mason jar with sweetened condensed milk, leaving a centimetre or more of space at the top.

Having bounced back from two no - heights in Ostrava and Braunschweig to win the British title last weekend, Steve Lewis again failed to register a height having entered the competition at 5.45 m. Lesueur's personal best of 6.92 m in the third round of the long jump competition secured her the win ahead of world and Olympic champion Brittney Reese with 6.87 m as Britain's Shara Proctor leapt 6.70 m for fourth, while Compaoré won the triple jump, beating Olympic champion Christan Taylor by one centimetre with 17.12 m.

With an excess of thick, wiry hair and a beard line that seems to stop mere centimetres below his eyesockets, Marouane Fellaini has never been the easiest chap to look at for long periods of time.

After clocking 13.37 to match the hurdles time she ran at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing last summer, the 23 - year - old added two centimetres to her previous best ever outdoor high jump mark with 1.92 m.

It's gas, as much as I wanted a birth where I was in the driving seat and allowed to go at my own pace, I was stunned to realise that I was craving someone to tell me how far I had progressed, to give me the stats in centimetres you could say.

I was interacting with SociBot - Mini, a 60 - centimetre - high robot built by Will Jackson and his colleagues at Engineered Arts in Penryn, UK.

Although the snakes struck out less often, they could «strike at and capture fish swimming several centimetres from the head and tentacles,» Catania says.

To create this exotic state of matter, researchers at the FLASH facility in Hamburg, Germany, took a thin piece of aluminium foil and blasted it with an X-ray laser that generated about 10 million gigawatts of power per square centimetre.

Combining that with the known position of the neutrino source at CERN gave a distance of 730,534.61 metres, plus or minus 20 centimetres.

Lars Peter Nielsen and his colleagues at Aarhus University in Denmark have found that tens of thousands of electric bacteria can join together to form daisy chains that carry electrons over several centimetres — a huge distance for a bacterium only 3 or 4 micrometres long.

Researchers in South Korea have transmitted data at a rate of 10 megabits per second through a person's arm, between two electrodes placed on their skin 30 centimetres apart (Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, DOI: 10.1088 / 0960-1317/20 / 2 / 025032).

The smallest of the antelopes, they stand 25 to 30 centimetres high at the shoulder and only weigh about 3 kilograms.

Along both faults, surfaces normally rub harmlessly past one another at a rate of around half a centimetre a year.

At 1.6 metres tall and 45 centimetres in diameter, VALKYRIE resembles a big black cigar with a tapered tip (see diagram).

At a distance of 30 centimetres, Katabi's prototype can charge an iPhone 4s battery from dead to full in just under 5 hours.

It's moving at a rate of about eight centimetres every year.

Justin Hart and Brian Scassellati at Yale University have taught Nico to recognise the arm's location and orientation down to accuracy of 2 centimetres in any dimension.

They average 1 centimetre in length, yet swim at more than 10 centimetres a second (Journal of Experimental Biology, DOI: 10.1242 / jeb.101600).

WEIGHING in at 4 kilograms and standing a proud 22 centimetres tall, this is the world's first portable digital camera.

Made by Shuhei Miyashita and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a 1.7 - centimetre - long origami robot made of plastic and containing a magnet can be «programmed» by an external magnetic field.

«Not only do they move away from light, but they can pick out a dark shade at a distance of about 40 centimetres and move towards it very rapidly,» says neurobiologist Lauren Sumner - Rooney at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the study.

The flexible cladding, which can withstand temperatures of at least 1200 °C, is a sandwich of three layers of ceramic fibre, each around 0.25 centimetres thick, interspersed with layers of silicon - coated glass fibre and thin aluminium foil.

Interference, or «radio noise», even occurs at the wavelength of the famous 21 - centimetre atomic hydrogen line, which many SETI researchers believe another intelligence would logically chose for communication — if such intelligence existed (see «SETI: the search continues», New Scientist, 10 October).

At that speed, Hydra Fusion creates maps at a resolution of 30 centimetres per pixel, clearly showing trees and buildingAt that speed, Hydra Fusion creates maps at a resolution of 30 centimetres per pixel, clearly showing trees and buildingat a resolution of 30 centimetres per pixel, clearly showing trees and buildings.

A tsunami warning for the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu was cancelled after only very small tsunami wave activity, just a couple of centimetres, had been measured at two reading stations near the epicentre, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

The team concludes that the break happened when the animal dropped 85 centimetres, perhaps by falling off a rock or a log in the temperate forests that covered parts of Australia at the time (PLoS One, doi.org/4qg).

In 2012, Wagga was hit with a flood that peaked at 10.8 metres, just 20 centimetres from the top of the levy.

Astronomers often search for gas by observing neutral hydrogen, which broadcasts radio waves at a wavelength of 21 centimetres.

The 10 - centimetre fossil — which fell from at least 70 metres up the cliff without shattering — contains the fish's shoulder and fin bones.

The display is 5 centimetres square and has 40 000 pixels, which require just 20 connections at the edge.

There is not enough radioactivity in the core to account for this, so scientists now speculate that the planet may either be shrinking at the rate of a few centimetres a year, or that the vast quantities of helium in the atmosphere are separating out from the hydrogen and slowly sinking.

Siores says that 10 square centimetres of the PV film can generate 1 to 2 watts of solar energy at its peak.

At 38 centimetres long it is large for a pigeon, and its feathers are a predictable colour.

I read this exhortation, gazed at the formidable 5 - centimetre thick volume and gulped.

In the laboratory, the robot can follow a cordon on a trellis and even move out of the way when it encounters a trellis post at up to 12 centimetres per second, or about 7 metres per minute.

In collaboration with LCD manufacturers, the government is investing 3 billion yen (Pounds sterling 12.5 million) in a research company aimed at producing screens of over 100 centimetres.

The patent - pending technology, which uses detectors at the heart of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN alongside world - first radiation - hard CMOS imagers, will reduce dose uncertainties from several centimetres to just a few millimetres.

The researchers noted whether they approached the screen within three centimetres or displayed at the videoed opponent.

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.

The project, conducted by the Australian Geological Survey Organisation and the Indonesian Geological Research and Development Centre (GRDC), has charted about 380 000 square kilometres of rugged terrain in Irian Jaya and central Kalimantan at a scale of 1:250 000 (1 centimetre to 2.5 kilometres).

Zhou's group examined 11 Jeholornis fossils with preserved tail feathers and found that four had both aerofoil - like fans up to 10 centimetres long at the base of their tail and frond - like tufts of feathers at the tips.

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.

At just 1 centimetre long, it ties with a Brazilian frog as the world's tiniest tetrapod — a group that includes all vertebrates apart from fish.

«Being hit by a 1 - centimetre object at orbital velocity is the equivalent of exploding a hand grenade next to a satellite,» says Heiner Klinkrad, head of the space debris office at the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany.

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.

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.