Sentences with phrase «several centimeters»

In other words, all the GPS stations on one side of a given fault moved several centimeters in the same general direction.

The spacing of several centimeters or more creates a slight difference in the time it takes sound waves to hit our ears, which the brain processes perceptually so that we can always experience our settings in surround sound.

Increased melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and other ice losses worldwide have helped to move the North Pole several centimeters east each year since 2005

Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, report that increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet — and to a lesser degree, ice loss in other parts of the globe — helped to shift the North Pole several centimeters east each year since 2005.

But in the 1980s, Gordon Hendler, now at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, discovered that the brittle star Ophiocoma wendtii can spot dark areas from several centimeters away, enabling it to seek refuge from predators.

Furthermore, research indicates that the slow creeping flow of hot buoyant rocks — moving several centimeters per year — carries heat away from the core to the surface, resulting in a very gradual cooling of the core over geological time.

«The ponderous ice sheets will change but slowly at first, raising sea level only several centimeters per decade, but as movement of these giant grinding glaciers slowly accelerates it will attain momentum that can not be stopped.

A didymo mat several centimeters thick covers the rocky substrate of the crystal clear Duval River.

A didymo mat several centimeters thick covers the rocky substrate of the crystal clear Duval River.

And they can be several centimeters long.

The scientists observed the young star's disk with the VLA at several centimeter - range wavelengths.

In retrospect, I believe that one surge popped open my cervix several centimeters all at once.

Tracks from the early Cambrian show that animals started to burrow several centimeters into the sediments beneath the mat, which provided access to previously untapped nutrients — as well as a refuge from predators.

Using such methods, an object just several centimeters in height can take hours to construct, relegating 3D printing to the development of models that guide manufacturing, but do not produce the actual manufactured goods.

Furthermore, it provides easier access to the deepest structures that are often located several centimeters beneath the cranium.

We can also print relatively large - scale structures, measuring several centimeters.»

The lander has the ability to extract a sample of material from several centimeters below the comet's surface.

When activated by light, these nanoscale motors twist the polymer chains in the gel, which as a result contracts by several centimeters.

Necrosis of the blood vessels that feed his hips have caused one to collapse, leaving one leg several centimeters shorter, and he has a slow, limping gait.

The SSE films could also be made larger — several centimeters square — without generating pinholes.

In the case of long - gap esophageal atresia, the disconnect between the upper and lower tubes is at least several centimeters in length.

These outstretched neurons, as long as several centimeters, seem to play a critical role in relaying messages along the spinal cord.

In contrast to blue light, infrared light is capable of penetrating skin and tissue to a depth of several centimeters.

Sometimes the magnitude of change Zebker and his colleagues observed amounted to only several centimeters, but at other times, the researchers found up to several meters of deformation.

Uterine polyps attach to your uterus by a large base or a thin stalk and can grow to be several centimeters in size.

Through the development of a technique called photoacoustic tomography, Wang was able to conquer this limit and advance the imaging depth by nearly two orders of magnitude, from one millimeter to several centimeters, an improvement that could enable doctors to acquire high - resolution images through a patient's skin using light.

In one of their last commands to Philae, controllers made the lander turn by 35 ° and lifted it up several centimeters, in hopes of putting Philae's solar panels in a more favorable position.

Sea level along the U.S. East Coast and West Coast can rise and fall by an inch or two (several centimeters) over the course of a decade or two because of fluctuations in upper ocean temperatures.

In the event of a collision with a pedestrian, a pyrotechnic element at the back of the engine hood raises it several centimeters to cushion the impact.

A sufficient thickness of water, along the order of several centimeters, is effective at shielding against cosmic rays (radiation).