Sentences with word «millimetre»

This walking technique improved in 100 bichir fishes that Standen and her colleagues reared in a tank filled with just a couple of millimetres of water.

At 34 days, the resulting organoids were only a few millimetres in diameter and had no blood cells, immune cells, nor the ability to process food or secrete bile.

Place another piece of grease proof paper on top and, using a rolling pin, roll the pastry put until a few millimetres thick.

«Today we're measuring global sea level rise in millimetres per year,» DeConto says.

But Sony can't seem to get away from sizeable upper and lower bezels, and even the side bezels are a couple of millimetres wide, so there's no «edge to edge» feel here.

The GlassBlaster, an invention of the Vitreous Environmental Group (VEG) of Vancouver, Canada, pulverises all kinds of bottles together with their caps, labels and even stale beer to produce a mixture of granules ranging from several millimetres across to smooth, harmless sand

These are pared - down dimensions, and it's no wonder that the camera lens protrudes a couple of millimetres from the back of the chassis as a result.

You sit 20 millimetres lower in the car, and 15 mm closer to its centre (thanks to a more compact transmission tunnel), the shifter just where it should be, the tachometer right at your eyeline.

This image combines a total of 296 separate individual datasets from the ALMA and IRAM telescopes, making it one of the largest high - resolution mosaics of a star formation region produced so far at millimetre wavelengths [1].

This revealed repeated asymmetrical shapes, criss - crossed with millimetre wide canals, which Maloof says are sponge fragments mixed up with a bacterial stromatolite mat (Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038 / ngeO934).

The extent of this melt is not in itself significant — just millimetres on top of an ice sheet that is 3.5 kilometres thick at its deepest point, most of which soon refreezes.

You may even start to take a few liberties with the throttle (having switched the stability control off), which is massively intimidating at first, but which if you persevere with you'll discover that the RS has a broad range of adjustability aided by millimetre perfect throttle calibration, albeit with the sensation of walking a pretty high tightrope at all times and without the comfort of a safety line.

The GTS's air suspension system is lowered some 15 millimetres compared with the base model.

This means it would jut out a couple of millimetres more than in the previous model.

A view of the four central galaxies at the heart of cluster Abell 3827, at a broader range of wavelengths, including Hubble Space Telescope imaging in the ultraviolet (shown as blue), and Atacama Large Millimetre Array imaging at very long (sub-mm) wavelengths (shown as red contour lines).

That half millimetre mightn't sound like much, and in isolation it's not, but it helps make the Tab S2's untapered slate - like design feel extremely thin in your hands, even more so when you consider the size of the device overall.

But some researchers have theorized that there could still be «mountains» — at most a few millimetres high — that make these dense objects, themselves about 10 kilometres in diameter, slightly asymmetrical.

It's also wider than its predecessor as well as a few millimetres shorter in height for some improved aerodynamics.

The idea seems to be that the extra returning infrared radiation has to work it's evil through the top millimetre of ocean surface.

I think I was most probably only millimetres away from hitting an LMP car but he just got out of the way in time and the danger evaporated.

The SF2 is fractionally longer and wider than the SF1 but nearly a full millimetre thinner.

«The huge advantage of millimetre wave is access to new spectrum because the existing cellphone spectrum is overcrowded.

So rather than manipulating objects just a few millionths of a metre across, twisted radio waves could be used to manoeuvre objects several millimetres long.

Counting the number of these cones per square millimetre gives the intensity of the bombardment to which the lens has been exposed.»

The 10.5 model features a much thinner bezel than the standard iPad and that means it's only a few millimetres taller and 10 mm wider even though you get a much bigger screen.

A couple of millimetres slimmer than the original Apple iPad at 10.5 mm thick, it weighs 394g and takes up just 190x124mm of pocket or bag space.

Metamaterials extend this concept with artificial structures that might be nanometres across for visible light, or as large as a few millimetres for microwave radiation.

And importantly, the length of the gap does not depend at all on its width and can be as large as millimetres or even centimetres.

The six - seat Baojun 360 has a 2,750 - millimetre wheelbase as well as a third row.

Dimensionally, just millimetres divide cargo space but the Tiguan's 615 litres trumps the Tucson's 488 - litre boot.

When equipped with the M Sport package, the 228i gets bespoke suspension tuning (including a 10 - millimetre drop in ride height and 17 - inch M light - alloy wheels in double - spoke design), aerodynamically optimized body elements (including large front air intakes, striking side skirts and a diffuser for the rear apron), plus a special design for the BMW kidney grille and an exhaust tailpipe embellisher in high - gloss chrome.

Synchrotron X-rays penetrate tens of millimetres into a sample where the behaviour of cracks can be very different - this in contrast to eectron microscopy which only reveals the surface features of micro-cracks.

The pallium of birds does not have any layers comparable to those in the human cortex; but its neurons are more densely packed than in the cerebral cortex in humans: pigeons, for example, have six times as many nerve cells as humans per cubic millimetre of brain.

But changes such as a 211 - millimetre increase in the wheelbase and locating the gear box at the rear axle instead of behind the engine for improved weight distribution and a more spacious interior meant the C5 was a very different car than its predecessor.

An 18 - millimetre rear sway bar reduces understeer and keeps body roll to a minimum during hard cornering.

Measuring 120 x 62 x 11.5 mm it's a good size too, although we feel the 120 mm height is perhaps a little larger than it needs to be - we don't know how many extra millimetres went into those ends that feel just a bit too sharp.

«I can see that we wouldn't be able to distinguish a few millimetres here and there from measurement error,» says Wikelski.

If everything goes according to plan, they will soon be able to localize the tumour within a few millimetres range, with the help of the research scientist Erlend Fagertun Hofstad, the engineer who is co-piloting the navigation at the computer screen.

Despite being a couple of millimetres too wide to be held comfortably across the centre for prolonged periods, you can at least do so.

When the team tested the wings in a wind tunnel, they found that noise reduction worked best when the fins were spaced 1 millimetre apart across the aerofoil.

Greaves cautions that more data is still needed to tackle this quarter of a century old puzzle: «Our image is quite fuzzy, so we've applied for time on the international Atacama Large Millimetre Array — ALMA — to get more detail.

The French rookie came on the radio afterwards saying he was «one millimetre close» to hitting Raikkonen, before adding that the spray had made the pit straight completely blind.

But while the Camry offers the most back - seat space, it also has the flattest, hardest rear seatback and the ZB is only millimetres behind, thanks in part to its higher «stadium» seating that offers occupants a better view of the road ahead.