Sentences with phrase «number of millimeters»

A surgical cut is made in the tibia using a special saw, and the newly cut piece is then rotated counter-clockwise a predetermined number of millimeters.

You probably have an idea of the number of millimeters that will be ideal for a particular outfit, season or look.

Not exact matches

Empirical studies of forests across Alaska show that North America's white spruce require at least 280 millimeters (11 inches) of precipitation each year, a number that rises if mean summer temperatures are higher than 15.5 degrees Celsius (roughly 60 degrees Fahrenheit).

However, the number of known molecular absorption systems seen in millimeter / submillimeter waveband has been very limited: only about 30 in the Milky Way galaxy and a limited number in other galaxies.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

The 1 - 3 millimeter granuloma also contains fibrous and necrotic tissue as well as a number of other types of immune cells, making it an extremely complex structure.

Mapping the structure of the human brain is a daunting task: Billions of cells make vast numbers of connections, and tracing these tangled fibers is so labor - intensive that analyzing just one square millimeter of tissue takes years.

The team found that people have large numbers of neural stem cells and progenitors early in life — an average of 1618 young neurons per square millimeter of brain tissue at birth.

This so - called compactification generates a number of «modulus» forces, some of which would be comparable to gravity at distances approaching a tenth of a millimeter under certain string theory scenarios.

Still, the kids» blood pressure changes were not huge: The overweight children who ate the most sodium — an average of about 4.6 grams per day — had an average systolic blood pressure (the top number in the blood pressure ratio) of 112.8 millimeters of mercury (mmHg), whereas those who consumed the least — an average of 2.3 grams of sodium — had an average systolic pressure of 109 mmHg.

Because existing phenomena — such as thermal expansion of water from warming — do not fully explain the corrected sea - level - rise number of 3.3 millimeters, stored heat in the deep ocean may be making a significant contribution, Cazenave said.

With the ALMA observations the team successfully measured the number density of galaxies approximately 10 times darker than the millimeter wave research results up to now.

In addition, they also successfully measured the number density of galaxies with 10 times less luminosity than ones previously observed with the conventional millimeter instruments.

As shown in the blue section of the chart, blood pressure ranges are typically shown with the systolic number before or above the diastolic pressure, e.g. 120/80 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury).

This, we can explain to learners, is an example of a proportional relationship for two reasons: 1) When the number of clicks is zero, the length of the lead is zero; and 2) each click produces a constant increase in lead length: 2 millimeters.

Example B: 305 / 70R17 On metric tires the first number is your width of the tire in millimeters.

And finally, the last number «20» refers to the length of the adapter piece, in millimeters.

New studies also found high risk areas such as Hampton Roads in Virginia now featured tens of thousands of properties under such serious threat of flooding that only FEMA will provide them with insurance — a number that will continue to increase along with the sea levels (globally at 3.3 millimeters of increase per year but as high as 7 - 8 mm per year in some regions).

This is why you won't find any use of complex numbers either in my spreadsheet or here (though they're always only a millimeter away just like parallel universes, ready when algebra becomes necessary).

Many of the mechanisms are like that — the tides, the direct inductive heating, the heating caused by the days influx of falling meteorites — which incidentally is far greater than the rate of heat loss through outgassing, as meteoric dust and matter infalls at an average rate of at least millimeters per decade, from my own direct measurements — they have «impressively» large amounts of annual energy associated with them, right up to where you divide by the surface area of the earth and the number of seconds in a year.

About 40 percent of the world's subtropics and tropics could experience an increase in consecutive dry days (the annual number of consecutive days in which precipitation is less than one millimeter per day).

The TV is impressive on a number of levels: It not only has a gorgeous 4K display but it also features a glass body that's only 2.5 millimeters thick as well as a speaker system that's built right into its stand.