Sentences with phrase «fraction of a second slower»

Not exact matches

So little is known about Russian form that comparisons are impossible, but in the case of Garnir and Zaryad, it is known that they finished one - two in the mile - and - a-half Moscow Derby this July and that Garnir's winning time over a dirt track was 2:31 1/2 — or only a second and a fraction slower than Cavan's recent winning Belmont Stakes.

If an athlete hits his or her head and is then slower than baseline by even a fraction of a second at reading off the numbers, Dr. Galetta said, it is very probable he or she has a concussion and needs to be taken from play and seen by a doctor.

The best practice among Silicon Valley companies is to adopt far slower hash algorithms — designed to take a large fraction of a second to scramble a password — that have been intentionally crafted to make it more difficult and expensive for the NSA and other attackers to test every possible combination.

The fraction of a second it takes for this to happen, repeated over and over, is what slows the light.

The nervous system can make very quick changes in a fraction of a second by sending electrical impulses through the spinal cord to the muscles, or it can make slow changes by sending chemical messengers, called hormones, into the blood to reach the tissues and the organs.

When compared with the Kindle Fire, the Nook opened Pulse slower by a fraction of a second, but was faster opening Netflix and Twitter.

That's partly because pages appear to be slow to load via Wi - Fi, but in truth the Kobo store suffers from the same problem as its Kindle rival - it can't show more than a fraction of its contents on a single page, and those pages take a second or so to flip.

It takes just fractions of a second for the iPhone X to scan your face, recognize you, and unlock your device, though Face ID has been described as slower than Touch ID.

Such a feature could solve a frustrating problem central to the very nature of slow - motion video: Pressing the shutter button at a fraction of a second's notice is much, much harder than you might think, even with the best hardware.