Sentences with phrase «extraordinary precision»

These works require patience because their complexity is structured within the guise of the gesture, but also because even in works with such extraordinary precision chance creeps in.

Drawing on its detailed data on nearly 500 million monthly active users, Alibaba has identified 8,000 different consumer descriptors, so that merchants can home in on their target customers with extraordinary precision — and increase the effectiveness of their consumer engagement efforts.

Many atomic properties have been measured to extraordinary precision: The frequency of an electronic transition in a cesium atom, for example, is used to define the unit of time.

For that reason, and also because experimenters like to poke at the marble facades of grand theories, Einstein's ideas are being tested with increasing frequency these days and to extraordinary precision.

By counting a wavelength's many oscillations, they measure distance and time with extraordinary precision and speed.

Furthermore, considering that NMR requires a magnetic field with extraordinary precision, the high - temperature superconducting technology that was cultivated during the development of NMR is applicable to various high - tech systems such as MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), nuclear fusion, linear motor trains and superconducting power cables.

Physicists do agree completely about how to use wavefunctions to predict the results of measurements, sometimes with extraordinary precision and accuracy.

Combining the two techniques allowed them to observe electron - phonon coupling with extraordinary precision, on a timescale of femtoseconds — millionths of a billionth of a second — and within roughly a billionth of the width of a human hair.

«Fortunately, we can quantify that with extraordinary precision.»

That the universe has a flat geometry has now been confirmed to extraordinary precision.

Scarier, and more to the point of things we have come to fear most, the bad guys are able to plot a path of destruction with extraordinary precision — and complete anonymity.

You will see how Northup, played with extraordinary precision and grace by English actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, is beaten with planks and whips, his shirt reduced to — as one character says in a singsong voice — «rags and tatters, rags and tatters.»

An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed works of fiction.

Writing with extraordinary precision, humor, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family life — their brittleness, and their resilience.

Edna Andrade's work is often remarked upon for the extraordinary precision and clarity of line and color.