Sentences with phrase «fractions of a millimeter»

An alternate view is that the universe begins to contract after reaching its maximum expansion limits until it disappears into a fraction of a millimeter.

But the technique works only if the water moves very slowly — a fraction of a millimeter per second.

Tiny extra dimensions, smaller than a fraction of a millimeter across, have also been proposed, but they wouldn't affect such extended ripples.

We can not see objects much thinner than a human hair (a fraction of a millimeter) or resolve motions quicker than a blink (a tenth of a second).

The moon rocks contain crystals, many of them fractions of a millimeter wide, that formed as the rock solidified, the researchers discovered.

Most experimental bacteria crawl just fractions of a millimeter per day.

Harvard University researchers have halted a pulse of laser light in its tracks and revived it a fraction of a millimeter away.

The microscopy techniques that permit imaging of brain cells in awake mice generally can't visualize anything deeper than a fraction of a millimeter below the brain's surface, whereas the mPOA is several millimeters deep.

The result is an ultra thin (a fraction of a millimeter thick) lithium ion battery.

To me the most fascinating new Bentley technique is a method of cutting stone — granite in the specific samples on display — into thin sheets a tiny fraction of a millimeter thick.

The home button on the front under the display only protrudes a fraction of a millimeter above the frame though, yet still has a satisfying click and feel.

The T300 Chi, on the other hand, feels well balanced despite the tablet portion being just a few fractions of a millimeter thicker and ounces heavier than its keyboard base.

Increased Precision: A laser beam's focal spot may be adjusted down to a small fraction of a millimeter or expanded for wider coverage.

We model systems on the scale of centimeters using control volumes on the order of fractions of millimeters and time steps on the order of fractions of a second.

... the long wave infrared radiation from the atmosphere has a lot to low energy (wavelength) one is not deeper than a fraction of a millimeter (10 micrometers).

Everybody knows this, the issue is how large the tidal effects are, and they are minuscule [fractions of millimeters].

Most models do not get this right and forget that IR is totally absorbed within the top fraction of a millimeter of the ocean, going largely into evaporating the surface skin.

Below the screen sits a physical home button, which only juts out from the top of the frame by a fraction of a millimeter, and is flanked by a back button on the right and an overview recents button on the left.

But those fractions of a millimeter make a difference.

They're a touch larger — we're talking fractions of millimeters — which means a lot of older iPhone 7 and 7 Plus cases won't fit them.

The slim design isn't only in appearances as the device is just 7.8 thick, making it just a fraction of a millimeter thicker than the iPad mini.

Conversely, the camera hump on the back is raised just a fraction of a millimeter higher and sports a very obviously different glass texture to make identifying it without looking easy.

The bezels were also thinned out a fraction of a millimeter to compete with the thin bezels and small footprint of laptops like the Dell XPS 13.

The extra fraction of a millimeter on the XL can likely be attributed to the glass, which protrudes from the frame, whereas the Pixel 2 is completely flat up top.

The fingerprint scanner is recessed into the glass frame just a fraction of a millimeter, and the dual camera module above it juts out the same distance, creating a slight camera hump.

The phone is slightly thicker than what you would find from Samsung's identically named phone, but it's only a fraction of a millimeter thicker anyway; something that becomes unnoticeable over time, and is in no way thick overall.

Not exact matches

Growing to just one millimeter in length, these simple creatures have only 302 neurons, or nerve cells, in their bodies, a tiny fraction of the 80 billion or so neurons in the human brain.

For detecting a single tumor, the volumetric accuracy was 1.2 cubic millimeters, a minute fraction of a cubic inch (0.00007), which Dr. Gonzalez called «extremely accurate.»

«With our method, we were able to precisely measure the distance between two areas of the cytochrome to a fraction of a millionth of a millimeter,» emphasizes Schiemann's staff member Andreas Berndhäuser.

The largest mini-brains-in-a-dish are only 4 millimeters across — roughly the size of a sea slug or jellyfish brain — and, Minnesota's O'Brien said, «a tiny, tiny fraction of the human brain.

«In laser fusion, an ignited target is like a miniature star of about a 10th of a millimeter, which produces the energy equivalent of a few gallons of gasoline over a fraction of a billionth of a second.

The findings are relayed to a computer, which can then respond within fractions of a second and with an accuracy of one millimeter.

Perhaps some gross thermomechanical process of restructuring the climate mechanisms (some small fraction of these were identified in the Stadium Wave paper, for instance) is ongoing, and the energy of restructuring — melting, subliming and carrying away Arctic sea ice and Greenland and Antarctic land ice net to the atmosphere, higher humidity absorbing gross water amounts to a level impacting sea level rise on the millimeter or sub-millimeter level, expansion of land due heat, or more likely erosion, silting and subsidence, and so on — is responsible for a Black Swan.