Sentences with phrase «takes fraction of seconds»

Researchers put an 1896 x-ray machine through its paces and found that it took 90 minutes to achieve exposures that take a fraction of a second today.

«For instance, it takes us a fraction of a second to recognize an image or understand... audio.

Because of its vast scale, events that would take a fraction of a second in an explosion on Earth are played out over decades in space.

The supercar is powered by the same 6.5 liter V12 but it does take a fraction of a second longer to sprint to 100 km / h at 2.9 seconds although we doubt one would notice the difference.

They save you printing and shipping costs, and take a fraction of a second to send instead of weeks.

On average, the entire process takes a fraction of a second.

Because it takes a fraction of a second to trigger the camera, when positioned wrong, videos often capture tails and rear ends instead of whole animals.

It only takes a fraction of a second for a head - on collision to occur... but the repercussions can last for a lifetime.

So, if I am going to take a fraction of a second to reach any place on Earth, why buy travel insurance?

The paddles mimic the face buttons, so instead of taking the fraction of a second to move your thumb to press a face button, you could do it instantly with one of your other fingers.

Connecting to a pair of Bluetooth sports headphones took a fraction of a second, while connecting to the AirPods was also seamless.

That takes a fraction of a second worth of action and turns it into several, creating some really fun effects.

Not exact matches

All of this took place in a fraction of a second.

Like a savvy traveler, Polaris takes the shortcuts, shaving fractions of a second off page load times.

But what was once a clunky, costly transaction conducted via landline telephones now takes place online, in seconds, for a fraction of what full - service brokers used to charge for the service.

To sustain the heavens and the earth by the fiat of his omnipotent word, so that if this word were withdrawn for the fraction of a second the universe would be plunged into chaos — how light a task compared with bearing the burden that mankind may take offense, when one has been constrained by love to become its saviour!

If an athlete hits his or her head and is then slower than baseline by even a fraction of a second at reading off the numbers, Dr. Galetta said, it is very probable he or she has a concussion and needs to be taken from play and seen by a doctor.

It only takes you looking away or being distracted for a fraction of a second.

It's just one experience that takes place in maybe a fraction of a second, and it changes their lives.

This theory was based on Kibble's thoughts about special topological defects in the early universe: fractions of seconds after the Big Bang, a symmetry breaking took place, and the young universe had to «decide» which new state to adopt.

The best practice among Silicon Valley companies is to adopt far slower hash algorithms — designed to take a large fraction of a second to scramble a password — that have been intentionally crafted to make it more difficult and expensive for the NSA and other attackers to test every possible combination.

The fraction of a second it takes for this to happen, repeated over and over, is what slows the light.

It might take a few seconds to establish the presence of the snake and formulate a response via the high road, but the low road kicks the body into a freezing response within a fraction of a second.

He used a 4 - inch Vixen ED100SF telescope and a PTG Chameleon camera to take multiple photos during the ISS transit, which lasted only a fraction of a second.

The current experiments use such a small number of photons that it would take a standard laptop a fraction of a second to make the same calculation.

Imagine two routes from A to B, one of which takes 1 second no matter how much traffic is on it, while the time of the other route matches the fraction of traffic sent on that route (e.g., if 10 % of the packets are sent on that route, it takes them a tenth of a second to arrive).

Since then, the scientists have been taking a closer look at this remarkable form of matter, which last existed some 13 billion years ago, a mere fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

AMHERST, Mass. — Experimental physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report that they have developed a fast, dynamic new process for wrapping liquid droplets in ultrathin polymer sheets, so what once was a painstaking process taking tens of minutes can now be done in a fraction of a second.

And if there's a fraction of a second or an extra bit of grip to be gained, the GT - R's engineers are going to take it.

Even on the track you will never be able to enjoy that power for more than a fraction of a second, and I doubt most (99.99999 %) of owners will take this car to a track, forget about the reporters, even they, if they had the money, would NEVER take a car like that to the Ring.

During each power stroke, a series of injections takes place, spaced just fractions of a second apart.

During each compression stroke, a series of injections takes place, spaced just fractions of a second apart.

If acceleration has to be unexpectedly interrupted, for instance, the double clutch transmission takes no more than a fraction of second to make the next gear down available instead of the next gear up.

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With a turbocharged car, when you tromp the throttle, the car moves off and the jerk moment comes a fraction of a second later when the turbo boost finally takes effect.

Even long messages that took a while to open with other SMS apps, ChompSMS had no problem pulling up in a fraction of a second.

That's partly because pages appear to be slow to load via Wi - Fi, but in truth the Kobo store suffers from the same problem as its Kindle rival - it can't show more than a fraction of its contents on a single page, and those pages take a second or so to flip.

The flicker has gone from a 1 - 2 second annoyance in early eReaders to a barely noticeable flicker that takes a fraction of the time turning a physical page would on the Kindle Paperwhite, but it does still exist.

It takes just a fraction of a second for someone to form an opinion about you.

Investment companies mostly trade high volumes which typically use these automated robots since the time taken to execute a trade is just a fraction of a second, giving them the ability to take advantage of the minimal price changes on the market that will be guaranteeing maximum profit returns.

Video games, on the other hand, have always lagged behind, in large part because movie effects can take their sweet time to be produced, while graphics in games need to come together in tiny fractions of a second — but they're about to catch up in a big way.

What does it mean to take a picture of a 4,000 - year - old tree at a fraction of a second?

Physicists are also at home with phenomena that take billions of years or take the tiniest fraction of a second.

Second, a viable domestic cellulosic biofuels industry has not taken hold, with only a tiny fraction of the fuel mandated by the RFS actually being produced.

I do not claim for a second that a single painting provides evidence of temperatures that can be relied on to fractions of a degree, merely that it well descrbes the changes that were taking place at the time and such pieces have received a great deal of academic investigation, some of which has been quoted to you.

* Legible clocks: if you can't check the time in a fraction of a second without taking your hands off the keyboard, you're doing it wrong.

It takes just fractions of a second for the iPhone X to scan your face, recognize you, and unlock your device, though Face ID has been described as slower than Touch ID.

Samsung's monstrous Settings app can take a while to get going, and there's a fraction of a second delay in loading the app - switcher.

In general performance of the phone was blazing fast, with apps taking mere fractions of seconds to appear on screen after being called up.

If you've ever used a Nexus device with HDR + mode on, you'll know about the processing ring that appears after pressing the shutter that can take anywhere from a fraction of a second up to 2 full seconds to take the shot.