Sentences with phrase «fractions of a second when»

I always like to think that the guy who wakes up in the morning after a hard week of work, has that moment, that fraction of a second when he opens his eyes, «Oh, today I go to watch my team!»

Astronomers can easily predict eclipses, and they can foretell to a fraction of a second when the moon passes in front of a distant star.

The interior lights and radio flashed for a fraction of a second when this happened, and the clock on the dash reset itself.

When driving, though, this disengagement and anti-lag spooling can at first be disconcerting: You watch the tachometer needle fall to almost zero rpm when you lift your foot off the gas, then jump back up to 2,000 - 3,500 rpm in a fraction of a second when you get back on it.

The Nook lagged behind by a fraction of a second when turning pages of the same book.

German shepherds will go from zero to all out terrifying in a fraction of a second when needed.

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At a time when investment firms are increasingly experimenting with artificial intelligence and technology that can make trading decisions in a fraction of a second, identifying disreputable sources has become a bigger challenge.

To sustain the heavens and the earth by the fiat of his omnipotent word, so that if this word were withdrawn for the fraction of a second the universe would be plunged into chaos — how light a task compared with bearing the burden that mankind may take offense, when one has been constrained by love to become its saviour!

At the outset we noted that the nineteen and a half centuries we have covered are only a small fragment of the course of Homo sapiens and even of what we call civilization; when viewed against cosmic time they constitute only a fraction of a second and embrace a small planet which is a mere speck in the vast universe.

This is the pleasure that comes from an expertly weighted cross-court lob, or a perfectly squared - off dove joint, or that moment when the crumpled envelope doesn't even touch the edges of the bin and you feel, just for one blessed fraction of a second, like the greatest human being in the history of the universe.

When you search on Google, the company's system calculates which sites are most relevant for your search within a fraction of a second, based on the contents of the page and on how authoritative a source your site seems to be.

It turns out that the electric charge of fundamental particles could have been close to zero when the universe was fractions of a second old.

She traces those anomalies back to a fraction of a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, when our universe was so small that it behaved like a subatomic particle, dominated by quantum physics.

Because antiprotons annihilate when they hit anything made of ordinary matter, within a fraction of a second, they usually hit the sides of the chamber that contains the collision of the gold nuclei that created them in the first place, and turn into gamma radiation.

In early 2010, when physicists announced the creation of the superheavy element ununseptium, even the handful of atoms that were made decayed into smaller ones in a fraction of a second.

When binary black holes merge, they produce chirps that last just a fraction of a second in the LIGO detector's sensitive band.

Cosmologists propose that the entire universe once consisted of this strongly interacting elixir for fractions of a second after the Big Bang when conditions were dramatically hotter and denser than they are today.

When they are released, they snap shut in a fraction of a second.

When coupled with an inflationary cosmology, the authors» approach predicts that a charge asymmetry should have been produced at ultra-minute fractions of seconds after the Big Bang.

Each visual cue is presented at a fraction of a second against a white background, and participants must ignore an auditory tone sounded when each cue is presented.

The first direct detection of gravitational waves occurred in mid-September 2015 (but announced February 11, 2016) with twin LIGO detectors in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA (both USA) when ripples of spacetime from the last fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes with masses 29 and 36 solar masses combined to form a 62 - solar mass black hole with 3 solar masses of energy radiated away as gravitational waves in that last fraction of a second.

If confirmed, the undulating «gravitational waves» would amount to near - proof of the Big Bang theory known as inflation, and their magnitude would reveal exactly how energetically the universe inflated 13.8 billion years ago, when, according to the theory, it grew from a speck in a fraction of a second.

And second, Florida school districts lose only a fraction of their per pupil funding when a child leaves (the state «FEFP» portion, which is roughly 2 / 3rds of the total).

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 I was driving I flashed my brights and was surprised when the engine seemed to almost completely cut out for a fraction of a second.

Incandescent bulbs have a filament which has much lower resistance when cold than when it's been on for a fraction of a second.

The degree of lock — which may be anywhere between 0 and 100 percent — is adjusted as required within a fraction of a second, enabling wheel spin to be prevented on slippery surfaces, in instances where the right and left rear wheel have widely differing friction coefficients, in tight bends and when changing direction with particular vigor.

The degree of lock — which may be anywhere between 0 and 100 per cent — is adjusted as required within a fraction of a second, enabling wheel spin to be prevented on slippery surfaces, in instances where the right and left rear wheel have widely differing friction coefficients, in tight bends and when changing direction with particular vigour.

The driver assist system also works together with the radar guided cruise control and this comes in very handy especially when you're driving in a trail and lose concentration for a fraction of a second.

With a turbocharged car, when you tromp the throttle, the car moves off and the jerk moment comes a fraction of a second later when the turbo boost finally takes effect.

AWD only kicks in when it's called for, or a fraction of a second just after.

Unlike rivals, however, Audi's system spins up in a fraction of a second to apportion power rearward when needed, and it can sense when a driver is beginning to encounter adverse conditions that require a little extra traction.

When traction is needed at the rear, 4Motion starts in a fraction of second through the differential that can send a maximum of 50 per cent torque to the rear.

When you whip through dozens of book and author interview requests sent to your department's general publicity email address each day, being able to forward a request to the correct publicist or department in a fraction of a second without even reading the message in its entirety — or at all, for that matter — is a handy skill).

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

Second, print sales in 2015, when her fourth book is released, may be a fraction of what they are today, following trends in both ebook upswing and bookstore closings.

Because it takes a fraction of a second to trigger the camera, when positioned wrong, videos often capture tails and rear ends instead of whole animals.

There is such a feeling of exhilaration and accomplishment when you finish a level with only a fraction of a second left.

If you doubt this, consider the fan backlash and outcry when they watched the Final Fantasy VII Remake trailer that sampled a fraction of a second of combat.

When I saw the poster for the exhibition and then the works, I asked myself if you weren't afraid (at least for a fraction of a second) that everyone will attribute / corelate / compare the project with Yves Klein and his YKB blue?

So what I think I'm trying to say is that when a mole absorps radiation in the IR in translate to the first excited level and falls back to the ground state within a fraction of a second.

So when — in a fraction of a second)-- DLR increases by 100 W / m ² to 400 W / m ², by definition R1 increases by 100 W / m ² to 400 W / m ², and by definition the value R2 must go to 47 W / m ².

To be fair, though, the low percentages of janky frames mitigate the issue, and the large spikes depicted in the histograms — which are particularly common when initiating scrolls — correlate to user input lasting fractions of a second.

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).

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.

«A timestamp is a sequence of characters or encoded information identifying when a certain event occurred, usually giving date and time of day, sometimes accurate to a small fraction of a second.»

Just a fraction of a second was enough to sustain major blows, which is the exact opposite of what you want when fighting for your (or Thor's) life.