Sentences with phrase «just fractions of a second»

Death can be just a fraction of a second away.

This system allows mom or dad to hold their baby while a 360 ° image is captured in just a fraction of a second.

Violent red flashes, lasting just fractions of a second, have been observed during one of the brightest black hole outbursts in recent years.

Most neutrinos originated just fractions of a second after the Big Bang and so carry unique information about the infant universe.

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

Such exotic particles can exist on earth for just a fraction of a second but it is possible that there may be large numbers of them deep in the cores of neutron stars, which are also held together by the strong force.

«It looked like a chirp, it looked at something that started at low frequencies — for us low frequencies means 20 or 30 hertz, that's like the lowest note on a bass guitar, sweeping very rapidly up over just a fraction of a second... up to 150 hertz or so, sort of near middle C on a piano.»

So what cosmic event creates these bursts of radio waves that, in just a fraction of a second, generate more energy than 500 million suns?

The charmer helps a customer sort out her dinner plans, but there's also a hint of something else as he shifts from begging to fighting for his job in just a fraction of a second.

Either way, just a fraction of a second later, the rear - wheel steering and the diff start to do their thing and pull the whole car back into line again, leaving it to corner flat with brilliant body control and punch out the other side of the corner superbly.

Should the worst of circumstances arise, Dawn will deploy a concealed roll - over protection system from behind the rear head restraints in just a fraction of a second.

During each power stroke, a series of injections takes place, spaced just fractions of a second apart.

During each compression stroke, a series of injections takes place, spaced just fractions of a second apart.

It takes just a fraction of a second for someone to form an opinion about you.

Investment companies mostly trade high volumes which typically use these automated robots since the time taken to execute a trade is just a fraction of a second, giving them the ability to take advantage of the minimal price changes on the market that will be guaranteeing maximum profit returns.

And for toy breeds and terriers, the deal is easier yet — if you stay still for just a fraction of a second, frozen in time for a palpable moment — then you'll get a food reward.

If one could compress all the time that hamsters have existed on Earth into just 1,000 years, this period of time that they've been kept as pets would be just a fraction of a second.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Second, even if you give that these scenarios are «voluntary» (really... if the state allows a scenario where slavery is the only employment option????) they were just a fraction of the slave population.

If the television is on but I'm not watching and that ad plays Nugent's guitar, for just one fraction of a second it is a Saturday morning in Spring 1983.

There may be purpose, or at least desires, referring only to a tiny fraction of a second ahead, just as there may be memories with similarly short - run effective scope toward the past.

The second only came about because Xhaka's inch perfect pass was just a fraction of a yard or thirty out.

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.

It's just one experience that takes place in maybe a fraction of a second, and it changes their lives.

«This happens so quickly — just a small fraction of a second — that what we see can sometimes dominate what we know.»

Hone adds, «We are just starting to dream about other uses for these structures — for example, as micro-hotplates that can be heated to thousands of degrees in a fraction of a second to study high - temperature chemical reactions or catalysis.»

A computational theory published Feb. 24 in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrates that any two systems can be made to look alike, even if just for the smallest fraction of a second.

Just by attaching the Tissue Nano Transfection device to the skin, the healing process starts in a fraction of a second.

It just seems to be very quiet for a fraction of a second or two.

Here are just a few top tips that can help you create eLearning voice overs that engage, entertain, and enlighten your learners in a fraction of a second.

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.

It gives the B4 Bi-Turbo the ability to sprint from 0 to 62 mph in just 4.2 seconds, up to a top speed of 189 mph (at least on a closed circuit, as we have trouble seeing even a fraction of that ability exercised on U.K.'s speed - camera infested roads).

The 0 to 100 km / h sprint feels as quick as 5.8 seconds make it, but blistering straight line performance is just a tiny fraction of the Megane RS» character.

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

Hence, the system is able within a fraction of a second to vary the distribution of drive forces, with BMW xDrive - unlike conventional all - wheel - drive systems - anticipating the upcoming situation and not just responding once a wheel has started to spin.

Indie authors will have to work hard just to get their book in front of readers for a fraction of a second — and the only point of contact is going to be the book cover design.

Security - Fast and accurate fingerprint sensor ASUS ZenPad 3S 10's fingerprint sensor lets you unlock your tablet in a fraction of a second with just a touch, providing the perfect blend of strong security and incredible convenience.

People make up their mind about a book just by looking at the cover and they do so in a fraction of a second.

ASUS ZenPad 3S 10's fingerprint sensor lets you unlock your tablet in a fraction of a second with just a touch, providing the perfect blend of strong security and incredible convenience.

ASUS ZenPad 3S 10's fingerprint sensor lets you unlock your tablet in a fraction of a second with just a touch of the home button, providing the perfect blend of strong security and incredible convenience.

The device isn't as zippy as an iPad 2, but books open quickly and pages turn in a fraction of a second with a swipe of the screen (or just touch the right margin to page forward and the left margin to page back).

Now let me state most emphatically, that I am not talking about people for whom English is a second language; we have many here at WUWT, and I just wish I had any skills at all, in any other language, even a fraction of the English skills, some of our ESLs here have.

The first is the heat death of the universe due to the second law of thermodynamics; hot flows to cold until the entire universe is just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

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.

Scalability: The 1,500 transactions per second that XRP handles 24/7 is just a fraction of its potential.

Lines break up a page and stop the eye from reading further momentarily, allowing the brain to process the just read information for a fraction of a second longer should there have never existed a break line in the first place.