Sentences with phrase «smaller than a mass»

That audience is much smaller than a mass appeal device.

Not exact matches

A draft angle means that the top opening of a product is ever so slightly smaller or larger than the bottom opening, allowing for quick removal from a manufacturing mold in mass production.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

Increasingly they are opting for local, smaller brands rather than the traditional mass - market items that until now have constituted most of Unilever's offerings.

The corporate trend has been towards smaller more focused companies that can make specific strategic decisions and better capital allocation plans rather than being obscured by the overall mass of the parent company.

Also small scale production often needs far less energy than mass production.

Because the tiger's surface area is proportionally smaller than its volume and mass, surface cooling is not efficient enough.

Pagels (1984) points out that if the relative masses of protons and neutrons were different by a small fraction of 1 per cent, making the proton heavier than the neutron, hydrogen atoms would be unstable since the protons that constitute their nuclei would spontaneously decay into neutrons.

Rudi's Organic breads are made in small batches rather than mass - produced like some of our conventional competitors.

Items that are handmade in small quantities are less damaging to our environment than mass - produced items made in large factories on the other side of the world.

This early, your baby is still just a mass of cells called embryoy An amniotic sac is just starting around this mass of cellsl It is not bigger than a small pinhead which will rapidly see growth in the next 38 - 42 weeks where it becomes a full babyb

In addition, often small, boutique retailers will carry styles and brands that are both high - quality and very stylish, different than the mass - produced wares found at your local Wal - Mart.

Smaller publications, blogs, online forums have targeted audiences more in line with your goals than mass media.

The enormous range of scales (stars, the building blocks of galaxies, are each about one trillion times smaller in mass than the galaxy they make up), as well as the complex physics involved, presents a formidable challenge for any computer model.

One thing you might notice is that the mass - produced brands have a lot more ingredients than the smaller companies.

There was another law showing that life span increases as mass raised to approximately one - quarter, which translates into larger animals having a longer life span than smaller animals.

That is one of the surprising results of the first study to systematically measure the number of neurons in the brains of more than two dozen species of birds ranging in size from the tiny zebra finch to the six - foot - tall emu, which found that they consistently have more neurons packed into their small brains than are stuffed into mammalian or even primate brains of the same mass.

Black holes heavier than 10 solar masses should have long ago settled to the centers of small galaxies, churning up stars with their gravity like bowling balls setting the pins flying.

Ecosystems left in the wake of a mass extinction that occurred about 359 million years ago (artist's representation shown) contained fish and other vertebrates that were much smaller than the species that lived before the die - off, a new study suggests.

Of course, low mass is relative; the smallest of the planemos is still five times the size of Jupiter, which is more than 300 times as massive as Earth.

As relatively small stars (those less than ten times the mass of our sun) near the end of their lives, they throw off their outer layers and become white dwarf stars, which are very dense.

Because they are much smaller than other solar eruptions — like flares or coronal mass ejections — prominences had previously been thought to have a relatively minor effect on the sun's atmosphere, and therefore also on the solar wind.

Although the calculated mass for that pulsar, called J1614 - 2230, is lower than that of the black widow pulsar, the uncertainty in the measurement is smaller: + / - 0.04 solar masses vs 0.12 solar masses for the black widow pulsar.

The sum total or added knowledge in the sixty years following Cook's voyages had led to a general belief that around the South Pole was a scattered archipelago and not a continental mass, a state of geographical information that was not materially changed until the discovery by Charles Wilkes that after all there is a great Antarctic land, even if it is smaller than the land of legend.

Some MACHOs may be neutron stars left behind after supernovae explosions, but most are thought to be tiny failed stars called brown dwarfs which have a mass of less than 8 per cent that of the Sun and are too small to sustain nuclear fusion reactions.

Their mass is too small for full nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium (with a consequent release of energy) to take place, but they are usually significantly more massive than planets.

In the simplest case, where space has no hidden dimensions or those dimensions are smaller than the hole, its size is directly proportional to its mass.

Among women living in a small Ethiopian community, those with the most fat and muscle mass in their upper arms were more than twice as likely to have boy babies as those women with the thinnest arms.

The combination of observations taken by Hubble and Spitzer revealed that the infant galaxy is 25 times smaller than the Milky Way and has just one percent of our galaxy's mass in stars.

At the April announcement, Milner held up a small wafer — less than 2 square inches in size and roughly 4 grams in mass — that can already meet many of the critical specifications.

Any lighter than 1012 kilograms would still be smaller than a proton, but beyond this mass the holes would be as large as more familiar physical objects.

«The weird thing that we're finding is if we actually go out and measure the masses of the satellites that we can see, little satellite galaxies, dwarf galaxies that we can see, if we measure those masses, those masses are actually smaller than a good number of the dark matter clumps that we predict should be there.»

He points out that the ring structure, which Lipson says is designed for both low mass and malleability, harnesses the optical force on a greater scale than the smaller vibrating beam did.

Astrophysical giants several times the mass of the sun and midget black holes smaller than a subatomic particle could provide glimpses of an extra-dimensional existence.

Astronomers plan to measure masses for at least 50 TESS planets that are smaller than Neptune in the hopes that many of them will have rocky, and therefore potentially habitable, surfaces.

«I would therefore predict that the masses of the white dwarfs that are being formed in that population right now are going to be about 10 % smaller than the white dwarfs that I measured in the inner halo,» he says.

When the researchers looked at the data from adults who were born small for their gestational age at term, they found that this group had lower bone mass than adults who were born with normal weight at term.

Astronomers have long predicted the existence of black holes larger than those formed from single stars, but smaller than the million or billion solar mass ones lurking at the centers of galaxies.

Particles smaller than half a centimeter, called microplastics, account for 94 percent of the pieces, but only 8 percent of the overall mass.

«Black Holes from the Beginning of Time,» by Juan García - Bellido and Sébastien Clesse, incorrectly states that in the 1970s Bernard Carr and Stephen Hawking proposed primordial black holes only with masses smaller than a mountain's that would have evaporated long ago.

Although it was compressed into a volume smaller than the Earth, the object's mass was more than six times as heavy as our sun.

This illustration shows the average brown dwarf is much smaller than our sun and low mass stars and only slightly larger than the planet Jupiter.

In a paper published November 21 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, the pair concludes that the maximum possible mass is smaller than about 2.2 times that of the sun.

Current theory also suggests that if the doomed star holds less than 20 times the sun's mass, its explosive death should produce a small but extremely dense remnant called a neutron star.

Simulations indicate that if neutron stars are soft, they will collapse more quickly because they will be smaller than stiff neutron stars of the same mass.

Tapping the sponsorship of none other than lumbering, financially troubled General Motors and blending it with the skills of some of the most innovative, daring engineers in the vehicle business, MacCready has driven his small company to design and build a car that many observers think will make the biggest splash since the ’65 Mustang, and maybe even since the Model T. It's fast, it's sexy, and it's being rushed into mass production.

According to quantum theory, particles act as waves rather than point masses on very small scales.

There are two different black hole scenarios proposed to explain these objects: (1) they contain very «big» black holes that could be more than a thousand times more massive than the Sun (Note 1), or (2) they are relatively small black holes, «little monsters» with masses no more than a hundred times that of the Sun, that shine at luminosities exceeding theoretical limits for standard accretion (called «supercritical (or super-Eddington) accretion,» Note 2).

Of the more than 400 now known, many are large — 10 times the mass of Jupiter or more — and a precious few are small, just a few times Earth's mass.

Admittedly it is still very small — less than a ten - billionth of the mass of the smallest cell in the human body (a sperm cell; 10 - 13 kg).