Sentences with phrase «fractions of a second before»

Ramsey's injury seems to have resulted from combination of timing (Ramsey reached the ball a fraction of a second before Shawcross), positioning (the way Ramsey's foot was planted in the ground, and also seemed to be slightly twisted, meant that it couldn't bend to absorb any of the impact) and the size and weight difference between the two players (Shawcross is 6» 5 ″, and solidly built).

The radioactive ununpentium (a temporary name meaning «one - one - five») existed for only a fraction of a second before decaying into other elements.

His team was able to get about half the pulse to stop on the first try — the other half escaped in the fraction of a second before measurements could be made.

At the far end, in the table's highest numbers, lie unstable elements that only exist for fractions of a second before they radioactively decay.

Physicists said the gravitational wave detected at 1651 GMT on September 14 originated in the last fraction of a second before the fusion of two black holes somewhere in the southern sky, though they can't say precisely where.

However, this «coherence» lasts for only a fraction of a second before the whole system decoheres — a phenomenon that marks the transition from the realm of quantum to classical mechanics.

When you get into the throttle hard enough at a stoplight, there's a delay of a fraction of a second before the engine kicks in and helps the electric motor.

As you say, convection uses up a lot of energy too and also counters the idea of radiative heat transfer as a big ticket item because «hot» CO2 molecules only remain so for a brief fraction of a second before they collide with N2 or O2 to warm that localised parcel of air; which then rises to attain equilibrium T somewhere higher and at a COLDER temp so no rad Transf!!!

While this isn't an issue for music streaming, even nominal lag can create sync issues between the on - screen video and the audio, meaning the actions on screen will occur a few fractions of a second before you hear any sound.

Animations would be really smooth almost all the time, and then intermittently just stop for a fraction of a second before continuing at smooth pace.

If you press the Lock button a fraction of a second before the Home button, your iPhone's screen will turn off.

Not exact matches

Koscielny came out again before the ball was kicked, whether that's a fraction of a second offside or not I don't know.

And what was the Universe like in the first fraction of a second of its life, before matter started to cool down into the form it has today.

Second: one - time «snapshot» data of a single cohort of kids, which is all that NAEP can supply the first time around, tell you nothing about the academic achievement of children before they entered their charter schools — and just about everyone knows that a big fraction of the youngsters enrolling in charters were already behind the education eight - ball as a result of dismal performance in previous schools.

We only see Carter's image for a fraction of second; first we are startled and objectified by the unexpected flashing of multiple cameras installed next to the screen, before it appears.

When these devices detect the wake word, they stream audio to the Cloud, including a fraction of a second of audio before the wake word.

Again, the Alexa devices kick into gear only when they hear their name (they also record a «fraction of a second of audio before the wake word,» according to Amazon's Alexa FAQ page).

The Echo sends everything you say after the wake word (plus a fraction of a second from before the wake word, according to Amazon) to Amazon's servers.

When these devices detect the wake word, they stream audio to the cloud, including a fraction of a second of audio before the wake word.