Sentences with phrase «order of millimetres»

Not exact matches

The light used for the experiments is not visible: it is terahertz radiation with a wavelength of the order of one millimetre.

The mirror has to be flexible in a sense to allow you to do that and although this flexibility is of the order of microns - it is not moved by millimetres - means that the mirror is very, very thin compared with its size - it is 8.2 metres in diameter but only 17 centimetres thick to allow you to be able to apply these forces.

The different parts of the spectrum, or spectral bands, are, in order of decreasing wavelength and increasing frequency: radio waves (including microwaves and (sub) millimetre radiation), infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays.

If the E-Class is ordered with the seven - speed automatic transmission and DIRECT SELECT gearshift on the steering column, the shift / selector lever usually found on the centre console is replaced by a closable stowage compartment with a wood - trimmed sliding cover or a double cup holder suitable for various cups, cans or bottles with a diameter of up to 82 millimetres.

But svelte design usually comes with a premium, and there's certainly a lot of people who'd be happy to sacrifice millimetres in order to save a few tenners, so we're not going to complain too much.

Here, she took the interior of a condemned Victorian terraced house, scheduled for demolition, sprayed liquid concrete into every millimetre of every room, and then picked off the outer bricks and mortar in order to render apparent, in ghostly white, the lived dimensions of this family home.