Sentences with phrase «smaller than the length»

Now waves have a certain wavelength, and common experience of such waves as may be seen, for example, on the surface of the sea tells us that an object which is very much smaller than the length of the wave has no appreciable effect upon it.

The dragged object must be smaller than the length scale over which the light waves remain orderly and «coherent,» Saénz says.

Not exact matches

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple unveiled its long - anticipated smartwatch Tuesday, introducing a device that transplants the features of an iPhone onto a smaller screen that's never more than an arm's length away.

However, rather than having a fixed payment for the length of your loan, your payments start small and increase over time.

But if Rehnquist had paid attention to the depth of the argument in the brief, it should have been clear to him that the gradation of trimesters was utterly irrelevant to the status of that small human being, for it had never been anything other than a human being through the entire length of the pregnancy.

Remove the cake balls from the freezer and insert a lollypop stick or small appetizer - length skewer into the top of each one (stick it in far enough so it is more than halfway through but doesn't puncture the other side of the ball).

You know your child better than anyone, so only you can really tell what she's capable of, but most children at this stage of development will not sit still in a small dark theater for the full length of a movie.

These newborn clothes are seriously small, and usually only the tiniest newborn babies will fit into this size for a few weeks, so in general don't worry about this size unless the newborn is more than 5 weeks premature as they are the only babies who will use this size for any great length of time.

Really successful social networking - based campaigns generally seem to work with the strengths of the medium rather than treating it as just another broadcast tool — organizers engage their friends and followers one - on - one and at length, fostering commitment among (at times) relatively small but strong groups.

Using feather length as a proxy for nutritional status in birds, the researchers were able to rule out the possibility that smaller birds were less well nourished than their ancestors.

Regarding baseballs, the problem is that the fovea can focus on only a very small area — only about 2 degrees of the visual field (or an area smaller than your thumbnail held at arm's length)-- so as a pitched ball moves closer it can easily slip into your peripheral vision as it becomes larger.

The reason why nothing can be smaller than the Planck length is because at that point, current physical theory breaks down because it is impossible to describe anything beyond TP without a theoretical understanding of quantum gravity, which we don't have.

LIGO must be unbelievably sensitive to measure this change in the length of the legs, which is smaller than one ten - thousandth the diameter of a proton, or less than the size of a soccer ball compared with the span of the Milky Way.

The average length of the highest - capacity U.S. lines currently is four times greater than the smaller lines used more than a generation ago.

For example, a prey 10 times smaller in length than an eel is about 1,000 times smaller in volume.

Here's hoping that solving P versus NP turns out to be faster than proving the Honeycomb conjecture, which states that if you need to divide a surface into tiled shapes of equal size, a hexagon is the shape that requires the smallest length of dividing lines.

In a model of glioblastoma, a brain cancer that does not metastasize outside of the brain, they could readily see that the length of circulating tumor DNA was smaller than healthy DNA by 20 - 50 base pairs.

But the scientists were able to overcome this issue with «tiny whispering gallery mode lasers — only 1 micron in diameter — that are 1,000 times shorter in length, and 1 million times smaller in area than those currently used,» said Lau.

Its main purpose is to determine whether our universe acts like a 2 - D hologram, where information is coded into two - dimensional bits at the Planck scale, a length around ten trillion trillion times smaller than an atom.

Although an adult Raochestes chalazodes is typically about two centimetres in length, it enters the narrow openings of the reed bamboo internodes with considerable resistance as the openings are even smaller — often less than 5 to 10 millimetres long and 3 to 4 millimetres wide.

Their name is derived from their size, since the diameter of a nanotube is on the order of a few nanometers (approximately 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair), while they can be up to several millimeters in length.

Although the adult frog is small, under 25 millimetres in length, it enters the bamboo with considerable resistance as the narrow openings are often less than 5 to 10 millimetres long and 3 to 4 millimetres wide.

According to an ESA press release, it means they must be smaller than 10 - 48 metres, many orders of magnitude smaller than the Planck length of 10 - 35 metres, the universe's smallest length scale.

He saw an enormous amount: that small species lay fewer eggs than large ones; that some build webs and some hunt; that some spiders» eggs are parasitised; that spiders «shed a complete skin, not excepting even the jaws»; and that young spiderlings throw out a length of silk and use it to float off on the wind — although he saw this as a hunting technique, a madcap aerial pursuit of winged insects, rather than, as we do now, a means of dispersal.

They are two three - mile - long cavities where we measure the length of those cavities and we look for, we can measure those lengths with an accuracy smaller than the size of a proton; it's amazing what experiment can do.

Balaenoptera bertae would have been approximately 5 - 6 meters in length, slightly smaller than modern minke whales.

Balaenoptera bertae would have been approximately 5 - 6 meters in length, slightly smaller than modern minke whales, Mr Boessenecker says.

The now - smaller individuals produced fewer and smaller eggs and offspring compared to the large fish that were harvested using a mortality schedule mimicking a maximum - length, rather than a minimum - length, limit regulation.

By identifying length differences much smaller than the size of a proton, the experiment could in theory have spotted gravitational waves from merging black holes up to a few billion light - years away.

The smallest of them are less than one centimetre in body length, while particularly large species can reach to more than 3 centimetres.

Networks with a small - world organization have a clustering coefficient C that is much higher than the clustering coefficient of a comparable random organized network, but still with a short characteristic path length L that is similar to that of an equivalent random organized network (Watts and Strogatz, 1998).

A change in the lengths of the arms smaller than one - ten - thousandth the diameter of a proton (10 - 19 meter) can be detected.

Scalable and slim with a size of 3 m in length, 10 cm in width, and 20 cm in height, DCRS is significantly smaller than CMRS.

The Trichogrammatidae are a family of tiny wasps in the Chalcidoidea that include some of the smallest of all insects, with most species having adults less than 1 mm in length.

The long - necked and herbivorous Dreadnoughtus schrani, whose name means «fears nothing,» measured 85 feet (26 meters) in length from the tip of its small head to the end of its tail and weighed 65 tons — about seven times heavier than Tyrannosaurus rex, said Drexel University paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who led the excavation.

In terms of size, Sertich said that Lythronax was smaller than T. rex, reaching around 30 feet in length as opposed to 40 plus feet.

The technological challenge is to detect minute changes in the length of the arms as small as 10 - 18 meters (many times smaller than a proton!)

Nanotechnology refers to manipulating the structure of matter on a length scale of some small number of nanometers, interpreted by different people at different times as meaning anything from 0.1 nm (controlling the arrangement of individual atoms) to 100 nm or more (anything smaller than microtechnology).

As smaller genomic scaffolds tend to be over-represented by DNA from environmental sources (DW unpublished observation) we also conservatively excluded any candidate region that was located in a scaffold smaller than 5 Kb in length.

Consequently, the functional characterization of extracellular parasite proteins has typically been restricted to smaller subfragments that can be expressed rather than the full - length protein or entire ectodomain, which is more likely to be representative of the native protein.

One caveat is in order: People with uncharacteristically small joints for their frames and / or significantly longer than typical muscle belly lengths may be able to exceed some of these predictions by up to approximately 3 %.

I totally crave chocolate sometimes (I usually crave salty food more than anything) but my go too for chocolate is a small square of organic dark chocolate (If you can find raw organic dark chocolate that's even better)(70 % cacao and up is best), or lets say I crave something salty, I would maybe eat a small salad, or if I am in a hurry another go too for me is a cucumber cut in half length wise and sprinkled with a little bit Himalayan salt.

Moreover, the fascicle length of the soleus appears to be much smaller than the gastrocnemius muscle group.

And joint angle - specific strength gains are smaller than after isometric training at short vs. long muscle lengths.

The shirts are same as of usual kameez, but their length is slightly smaller than other paired with wide ghaira salwar, round from the top and tight at the bottom.

More space efficient than a full - length mirror, it's the perfect solution for a tight dorm or a small bedroom.

I cut out a size smaller than the pattern specs suggested -LCB- Simplicity tends to fit large on me -RCB-, and cut the shirt front and back pattern pieces to waist length.

However, this shirt fit better than others, just right for length and hem.I got this in a size Small and the new Cobalt color which was very nice but not in your face bright.

More often than not, the petite option is small all over not just in length so that's why it helps to size up.

The material was lighter than i expected when it arrived and also bigger even though i chose size XS (the smallest size) but I liked the shade of grey, the length and style so, that was enough consolation for me, i can still wear it on warmer days but i have to find a thicker grey trench for winter.