Sentences with phrase «more than a millimeter»

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

Since 1997, scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder have conducted experiments to search for parallel universes perhaps no more than a millimeter away from ours.

Furthermore, the models couple CO2 forcing to the whole mixing layer of the ocean while in reality the CO2 wavelengths barely penetrate more than a millimeter and so qualitatively are a complex surface effect.

The only miscasting here was Bo Derek, who barely seems to be able to move her face more than a millimeter at a time.

(Some older nonlit models are thicker, but none by more than a millimeter.)

The biggest difference is size and weight, adding more than a millimeter in every direction and 15g from its predecessor to make room for this camera.

While its 46 mm case diameter is on a par with the Moto 360, at 12.6 mm, the Founder Q is more than a millimeter thicker than the 11.4 mm Moto 360.

Not exact matches

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).

The researchers say they have demonstrated a proof - of - concept prototype that, when less than 1,000 volts were applied, got the case to contract and push a fluid consisting of deionized water and food dye up so that a pin would rise more than 0.5 millimeters — the standard height of a Braille dot — in less than 100 milliseconds (initial experiments have been done without a pin in the case).

On average, he found, plowed land erodes at slightly more than 1 millimeter per year, while new soil builds up at about 0.2 millimeter per year.

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.

He estimates that a 2 millimeter thick layer of these tar constituents, polymers called tholins, would absorb more than 99 % of the UV energy at the most - damaging wavelengths.

Now, using 3D printing, a group of engineers has created star - shaped structures (pictured) on a millimeter scale that are able to heat more uniformly than other materials have in the past.

Oxygen from seawater permeated only the upper millimeter or so of sediment, but the researchers noticed something happening much deeper in the mud, more than a centimeter below, as if oxygen were available down there, as well.

To get a different view, astronomer Giovanna Tinetti and her colleagues at the European Space Agency and University College London focused instead on the light grazing the atmosphere of HD 189733 b. Tinetti had predicted that water would absorb more light at the longer wavelength of 5.8 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) than at 3.6 microns, in contrast with other molecules such as methane and ammonia.

Bubbles smaller than 10 microns or more than four millimeters produce no jet aerosols after they burst.

The tooth plate of just some millimeters in size had been in a box for more than 40 years, without being recognized after the discovery and preparation of the fish it belonged to.

Raymond Simmonds of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., who led one of the teams, got a seven - millimeter - long wire to store a photon for more than one microsecond.

Analyses by NASA's UAVSAR radar performed after the Bayou Corne, La., sinkhole formed show it was able to detect precursory ground surface movement of up to 10.2 inches (260 millimeters) more than a month before the sinkhole collapsed in Aug. 2012.

In a series of ever - more - sensitive experiments over the past 30 years, researchers have established that if the shape of the electron has any distortion at all, the bulge must be smaller than 1 thousand trillion trillionths of a millimeter (10 - 27 mm).

During the extension work, the goal was to keep the tower from tilting more than an additional 27.5 millimeters over the length of the 55 - meter span between the ground and the center of the clock face.

Instead of capturing images covering one square millimeter of the brain, they could capture images covering more than 9.5 square millimeters.

Now, MIT engineers have developed a far more sensitive way to reveal ovarian tumors: In tests in mice, they were able to detect tumors composed of nodules smaller than 2 millimeters in diameter.

For example, amorphous iron alloys could be cast no more than a few millimeters thick.

What goes up, must come down and, more and more, that water vapor is coming down in extreme precipitation events — defined in North America as more than 100 millimeters of rainfall (or the equivalent in snow or freezing rain) falling in 24 hours — according to new research also published February 17 in Nature that examines such events in the Northern Hemisphere.

Along with more than a dozen helpers, the married couple applied 5,000 pounds of clay and germinating seed to the church's walls over a period of five days, creating a layer only millimeters thick.

A further factor is the rising sea level due to global warming, an effect that now also totals more than three millimeters per year and is responsible for another 15 centimeters of submerged land.

«In general, it does not give you as large a crystal, but for basic physical measurements, something between a millimeter and a centimeter is more than adequate.»

Illuminating the cover of the May issue of G3 is a lake - dwelling filter feeder no more than a couple millimeters long.

Since the 19th century, sea level has shot up more than 2 millimeters per year on average, far faster than other periods of global temperature change.

ALMA Band 4 receiver is designed to achieve more than twice the sensitivity of the NAOJ Nobeyama Millimeter Array receiver that covers the same frequency range.

Although the emission frequency of the more distant objects becomes lower due to the expansion of the universe, the ALMA Telescope is designed to receive millimeter waves in a frequency range lower than submillimeter waves observed this time, which means this identification method can be applied to objects even 10 billion light years away and will be a competent observation method in the ALMA Era when there will be a dramatic advancement in the research of distant galaxies.

Dissolving polymer wafers soaked with chemotherapy drugs were being implanted near tumors, but Stephan knew that T cells, which are capable of «squeezing throughout the entire tumor bed,» would be more effective than drugs, which can only penetrate a millimeter or so into tissue.

The researchers made lenses about a few millimeters thick with a magnification power of 160 times and a resolution of about 4 microns (millionths of a meter)-- two times lower in optical resolution than many commercial microscopes, but more than three orders of magnitude lower in cost.

A new connectivity infrastructure that will allow the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) observatory to increase its data transmission capacity by more than 25 times begins construction today, thanks to the signing of a contract for optical connectivity between Associated Universities Inc. (AUI), on behalf of ALMA, and two Chilean companies: Silica Networks Chile S.A. and Telefónica Empresas Chile S.A.

They were also more likely to have larger tumors (by 10 millimeters, on average) and to need a mastectomy than those in the 24 months or less group.

Any insole that is more than 3 millimeters is seen as an insult to the foot.

In my brainscan were more than 20 white spots visible, from 1 centimeter to strings of a few millimeters.

Today's luxury cars may pack powerful engines, sport - tuned suspensions, and more apps than your stubborn friend's Blackberry, but the segment has devolved into a repetitive cycle of one - upmanship that measures differences in millimeters rather than milestones.

Killen said that the car's body is so strong that it can be dropped upside down and the windshield frame will not bend more than a few millimeters.

The four - door coupé measures 4,796 millimeters in length, which is 31 millimeters more than the classic Passat.

Up front, six - pot calipers clamp down on rotors that are more than 15 inches in diameter (390 millimeters).

At a length of 367 millimeters and a weight of 86 kilograms, the 7G - DCT is more compact and lighter than the transmissions in this torque class which have been available on the market to date.

The width has been increased by 12 millimeters (0.5 in) to 1,886 millimeters (6.2 ft) while the height at 1,457 millimeters (4.8 ft) is now 2 millimeters (0.1 in) more than on the outgoing model.

The two first - class travellers in the rear have the greatest amount of legroom of any car in the segment, as well as 2.4 inches (60 millimeters) more headroom than in a Mercedes - Maybach S - Class.

Aside from a more aggressive nose, lower body kit, trunk - lid spoiler, and more chrome accents than you can shake a stick at, the Kizashi also gains a slightly stiffer suspension that sits 10 millimeters lower than previously.

In the event of an imminent side impact at more than 25 km / h (15.5 mph) the suspension actuators raise the body on the exposed side by up to 80 millimeters (3.1 in) within half a second.

The A3 Sportback also offers several millimeters more head and leg room than its predecessor.

Its wheelbase measures 2,595 millimeters (8.51 ft), 17 millimeters (0.67 in) more than its predecessor.

The MINI Clubman surpassed its predecessor and namesake from the era of the classic Mini by more than half a meter with an exterior length of 3,945 millimeters.