Sentences with phrase «millimeter by millimeter»

To track this complex set of factors, scientists have enlisted satellite instruments: imagers to monitor the color and reflectivity, or albedo, of the ice and altimeters to measure its erosion millimeter by millimeter.

The artist applies paint to the canvas surface, millimeter by millimeter, often taking months to meticulously accumulate brushstrokes into large - scale renderings of marble tile.

Stalagmites, which crystallize from water dropping onto the floors of caves, millimeter by millimeter, over thousands of years, leave behind a record of climate change encased in stone.

They could then examine the yarn millimeter by millimeter, perhaps pulling the sweater apart in the process.

Not exact matches

The nail had missed a main artery by around a tenth of a millimeter, Bergeson said.

The new prototypes, made by scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, are each roughly 3 millimeters long, 1 millimeter high and 4/5 of a millimeter thick.

As they will tell you at Cape Canaveral, a millimeter's deviation at launch and you miss the moon by miles.

They use a millimeter wave (mmW) radar seeker with a semi-active laser (SAL) that enables final guidance to the target by either the launching platform or another plane, and are perfect to destroy a vehicle with very low collateral damage risk, and an accuracy of about 1 - 2 meters.

Apple will probably stop bundling a Lightning - to - 3.5 millimeter adapter with this fall's new iPhones, according to a Barclays memo obtained by AppleInsider.

You don't measure marathons by millimeters.

Small yellow to cream - colored flowers are followed by shiny, deep purple to black, plump fruits about 5 millimeters in diameter and containing a cluster of tiny black seeds inside.

By now your fridge looks like a round of Tetris — perfectly, precariously organized, without a millimeter of space to spare.

If this is the case, then, my logical conclusion is that the relative hotness between chile peppers is determined by the concentration or density of the capsaicinoids per square millimeter of the pepper bodies.

A brutal dart, the horn pierced through the matador's cape and missed taking off the kids» ear, not to mention half his face, by millimeters.

And a fifth, who definitely had the angle on him at one point, was only able to shove him out of bounds by a millimeter.

As BPA levels rose, so too did systolic blood pressure readings — on average by about five millimeters of mercury.

One of the most common measurements taken in the evaluation of brachycephaly and scaphocephaly is the cephalic ratio (cephalic index), which is a rather fancy term for the measurement taken by dividing the size of the widest part of a baby's skull by the longest part of the skull, in millimeters and multiplying by 100.

By now your baby might be nearly 10 inches (250 millimeters) long from crown to rump and weigh nearly 2 1/4 pounds (1,000 grams).

By now your baby might be more than 10 1/2 inches (270 millimeters) long from crown to rump and weigh nearly 3 pounds (1,300 grams).

Instead, van Dokkum found his galaxies by grouping eight 400 - millimeter lenses into a contraption resembling an insect's compound eye.

The dial is 45 millimeters in diameter, complemented by the stainless steel band measuring 22 millimeters wide.

Pictured here is close to what the final product will look like; this particular model includes a 24 - by - 38 grid of one - square - millimeter pixels.

Palmer, an astrochemistry and astrobiology researcher, combed data collected by the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array, or ALMA, in Chile between February 22 and May 27, 2014.

According to the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annually.

The stars were observed with the large international telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile by an international team of researchers from Denmark, England and the Netherlands.

Something 7 millimeters in length, like the Sonia Jewels piece, is most often worn by men.

The measurements taken by the BOOMERanG Experiment (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics) and MAXIMA (Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array) represented «cosmic stretch marks» that were proof positive of expansion at ever - greater rates.

The inner core, once entirely liquid, is slowly solidifying from the inside out, increasing its diameter by about half a millimeter per year, according to some estimates.

A model of the flows in Earth's mantle below North America, developed by the scientists, reveals that the mantle material below 200 kilometers flows westward at a velocity of about 4 millimeters per year.

It measures 2.5 millimeters in width, anchored by a lobster claw clasp.

The new electrode grid, developed by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego and Massachusetts General Hospital, is about a thousand times thinner — 6 micrometers versus several millimeters thick — than clinical electrode grids.

The colors in the ALMA data represent the relative Doppler shifting of the millimeter - wavelength light emitted by carbon monoxide gas.

A paper in Science Advances by Rice engineers Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Richard Baraniuk and their labs describes a wide - field microscope thinner than a credit card, small enough to sit on a fingertip and capable of micrometer resolution over a volume of several cubic millimeters.

The strips were then removed from the water, cut, and placed on a cotton sheet, with each strip overlapping the previous one by about one millimeter.

Fast forward 500 years, and a team of astronomers led by John Bally (University of Colorado, USA) has used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the heart of this cloud.

However, on high (8 percent sodium chloride) salt diets they were hypertensive, with blood pressures elevated by 27 millimeters of mercury.

He notes, for instance, that the TI stimulated patches several millimeters across in the rodent's brains — far larger than the precise spots targeted by implanted electrodes.

Researchers measured 41 multilayer barium - titanate ceramic capacitors, each roughly 2 by 3 millimeters in size, before and after heating to high temperatures (189 °C) and quenching in ice water.

Homozygous mutants had no circulating or atrial ANP, and their blood pressures were elevated by 8 to 23 millimeters of mercury when they were fed standard (0.5 percent sodium chloride) and intermediate (2 percent sodium chloride) salt diets.

In that year, physicist Steve Lamoreaux, now at Yale, managed to detect the feeble Casimir force on two small surfaces separated by a few thousandths of a millimeter.

Johansen is also heartened by a recent discovery from ALMA, a submillimeter array of telescopes in Chile, of young planets sweeping clear paths through millimeter - sized dust grains in a protoplanetary disk no more than a million years old.

It consists mostly of light - sensing cells, but one tenth of a millimeter of its thickness is populated by image - processing circuitry that is capable of detecting edges (boundaries between light and dark) and motion for about a million tiny image regions.

Using drugs to lower systolic blood pressure to less than 120 millimeters of mercury cut people's risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular woes by 25 percent, researchers report November 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers studying the nematode worm C. elegans have discovered a new mechanism by which the millimeter - long critter flexes its pooping muscles.

During this time, kicks shifted the wall of the uterus by about 11 millimeters on average, the team found.

The 15 - millimeter long soft robot harvests energy from green light and is controlled by spatially modulated laser beam.

[2] The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), operated in part by ESO, observes in submillimetre and millimetre light and is ideal for the study of such very young stars in molecular clouds.

The combination of polar and nonpolar ice combined to raise sea levels by more than a millimeter in the last decade

Making Mutant Beach Hoppers: Beach hopper embryos (top), half a millimeter across, are lined up and prepared for an injection by Erin Jarvis, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.

A research group led by Aya Higuchi, a researcher at Ibaraki University, conducted observations of the massive - star forming region IRAS 16547 - 4247 with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).