Sentences with phrase «just centimeters»

McNamara says that LISA Pathfinder contains a vastly scaled - down version of eLISA, in which cubes have been positioned just centimeters apart, rather than hundreds of thousands of kilometers apart.

A small metallic strip just centimeters long can be easily excited by a flow along its length, in a manner analogous to a flapping flag.

After all, the caller's cerebral cortex is just centimeters away from radiation broadcast from the phone's antenna.

What flashed on the screen was a spray of black grains, released from a pressurized tube like water from a fire hose, with little bursts of electricity — veins of white just centimeters long.

«Only just a centimeter over or an inch over from where I was sitting could have fatally ended my life,» Fuentes said.

Not exact matches

The study showed that on average, American women grew just five centimeters over the century to 163.5 cm — or two inches, to about 5» 4» on average, while men grew about 6 cm, to approximately 177.1 cm or 5» 8».

Research from California Institute of Technology suggests that faces photographed from just 45 centimeters — about 1.5 feet — away are considered less trustworthy, attractive, and competent than faces photographed from 135 centimeters, about 4.5 feet, away.

Just type «cubit» in Google and it will give you 45.72 centimeters or 18 inches.

The African aid's epidemic is just God's way of clearing away the sinners to them, the prejudged, the cursed, the afflicted, the gays, all just a problem of human waste to them, and yet they fight tooth and nail to save a few centimeters of cell's on some person they don't knows uterine wall.

Hi I just made this bread first time this morning and it tastes great — but it didn't rise more than a centimeter.

Just 1 foot to the left with Ox's shot, and a few centimeters lower with Ramirez's or whoever it was» header, and with the same effort and all the song and dance, it could have been Chelski 1 — Arsenal 0.

I felt the labor pains come on, went to the hospital, was told I was only 3 centimeters dialated and that I was probably just wishfully thinking she was coming.

On average each necklace is 45 centimeters long (17 inches) so they can fit most men just perfectly.

It is said that the average first - time mom will dilate just under a centimeter per hour once active labor has started and the mom having baby number two or more will dilate just over a centimeter per hour once active labor has begun.

I felt a distinct shift after one big surge and wondered, «Maybe my cervix just opened the first centimeter?»

I went into hospital with my partner and my mum to be induced, and after just a few hours at 20 December 1997 at 23.52 Trevor Junior was born silently, weighing just 300 grams and measured 23 centimeters long!

Just a few centimeters in width, a tiny foot might not open the cervix wide enough to allow the baby's head and umbilical cord to pass through.

This week, your baby measures about 1.2 inches from crown to rump, or just barely over 3 centimeters.

I planned to have a natural drug free birth, once I was about 8 centimeters dilated I just couldn't handle the pain and I went with the epidural.

Now suppose that the 21 - centimeter radio waves from a hydrogen cloud were emitted when our universe was just 500 million years old.

The iPad now has officially arrived, weighing in at less than a kilogram, with a 25 - centimeter LED - backlit display that is just over a centimeter thick.

Even if you don't believe that's what Watson really meant, you'd still have to see as surreal the fact that people were attacking his statement on Africa while ignoring a vastly more outrageous and transparently hateful comment just a column - centimeter away.

Just under 40 feet (12 meters) long and about 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) in diameter each, the 250 segments of one of KAGRA's arms extend into the distance in this westward tunnel.

The smallest, Xenoturbella hollandorum, found in Monterey Bay was just 2.5 - centimeters (1 - inch) long, and named in honor of Scripps biologists Linda and Nick Holland for their contributions to evolutionary biology.

To make just one unit of blood — roughly a pint — it would require growing cells in about 400 flasks that were about 30 centimeters by 20 centimeters, he says.

As DNA passes through a tiny opening in the pore — an opening that is just 0.00000012 centimeters wide, or 1/10, 000 th the width of a human hair — the current shifts based on the sequence of DNA letters.

When it comes to placing electrodes, «even just a few centimeters can be enough to change the effect,» Clark says.

Yet the recent north Texas earthquakes were so small they caused offsets of just a fraction of a centimeter.

«When we broke the thousand - watt barrier by sending energy across the 12 - centimeter gap, we were just exhilarated,» Afridi said.

Called «Sprites,» each is a 4 - gram flake of circuit - board just 3.5 centimeters on a side, packing solar panels, computers, sensors and communications equipment into an area equal to a U.S. postage stamp.

A black, diamond - spackled pebble just a few centimeters across is the remainder of a comet that struck Earth almost 29 million years ago — making it the first direct evidence of a comet exploding in our atmosphere, scientists say.

When the 7.0 - magnitude earthquake struck, computer models predicted that a tsunami would hit the nation's south shore — but with a height of just 20 centimeters, said Fritz.

The tiny fossil, just a few centimeters long, is giving paleontologists a rare window into the early development of a group of extinct birds called Enantiornithes, researchers report March 5 in Nature Communications.

Cautious, he started with gaps between the bars that were just shy of a pigeon's wing span, about 30 centimeters.

Where a traditional accelerator can take kilometers to drive an electron to 50 giga - electron volts (GeV), Leemans and team showed that a mini-laser plasma accelerator could get electrons to 1 GeV in just three centimeters with a laser pulse of about 40 terawatt.

But afterward a new kind of blade came to the forefront — small, elongated «microliths» just four centimeters in length or less, with triangular, crescent or trapezoidal shapes.

The hatchlings, which measure just 30 centimeters (12 inches) long, have dozens of firmly rooted, centimeter - long teeth.

In certain fruit fly species, such as Drosophila bifurca, males measuring just a few millimeters produce sperm with a tail as long as 5.8 - centimeters, researchers report May 26 in Nature.

The fossil shows a juvenile Ichthyosaurus communis, measuring just 70 centimeters long, making it the smallest example of the animal to date.

To bring movement back to Rob Summers» paralyzed lower body, scientists and doctors surgically implanted a package of 16 small electrodes, just a few centimeters long, above the protective membrane layers of his spinal cord.

A personal car — a 1996 Toyota Starlet — provided the most protection, exposing its passengers to an average of just under 37,000 particles / cubic centimeter.

The bots weigh just 68 milligrams and have bodies that are 2 centimeters long and legs 5 centimeters long.

That interlude gives the dolphin just enough time to drop its sponge, surface to get a breath, and dive again to snag the fish, most of which are about 12 centimeters in length.

Although the bugbot's body rests just 1 centimeter above the water's surface and its legs are just 5 centimeters long, it can leap to a height of more than 14 centimeters, the researchers note.

The planet is about 16 times as massive as Earth but just a little over twice as wide, making its density about 8 grams per cubic centimeter, Néstor Espinoza, an astrophysicist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, and colleagues report.

The only thing standing between the escape of nuclear steam and a possible chain of events leading to a meltdown was an internal liner of stainless steel just three sixteenths of an inch (0.48 centimeter) thick that had slowly bent out about an eighth of an inch (0.32 centimeter) into the cavity due to the constant 2,200 pound - per — square - inch (155 - kilogram - per - square - centimeter) pressure.

«Remarkably, among participants who completed at least 70 per cent of the prescribed exercise sessions, waist circumference decreased close to seven centimeters in those randomized to combined aerobic plus resistance exercise, versus about four centimeters in those randomized to do just one type of exercise, with no change in those randomized to diet alone.»

* Finally, Christopher Lowery follows the recovery of life at ground zero, focusing on an 80 - centimeter transitional layer and the limestone just above.

At this scale, light, the fastest thing in the universe, would travel through space at just over 2 centimeters per second.

At just 2.5 centimeters (about 1 inch) in length, the frogs would make a perfect snack for many birds, fish or mammals.