Sentences with phrase «tenth of a millimeter»

Over the past few thousand years, the rate of sea level rise remained fairly low, probably not exceeding a few tenths of a millimeter per year.

RiseRate = 32; # tenths of a millimeter per year TotalRise = 0; # zero starting sea - level rise for -LRB-(i = 0; i < 2013 - 125; i + +)-RRB-; # loop year - by - year do -LRB-(RiseRate + = 1)-RRB-; # the rise - rate increases -LRB-(TotalRise + = $ RiseRate)-RRB-; # the total rise increases done; # now convert integer arithmetic to floating - point echo «$ TotalRise / 254/12» bc - l

Those microscopic offspring — called veligers and as small as one - tenth of a millimeter in diameter — are covered with little hairs that help them catch currents and waves and «swim» to new locations during the first few weeks of their lives.

They report sea levels were «stable» during the Little Ice Age, fluctuating only by tenths of a millimeter.

The species is a few tenths of a millimeter smaller than the previous minisnail record holder, a Chinese species called Angustopila dominikae that debuted a month ago in the same journal.

It consists mostly of light - sensing cells, but one tenth of a millimeter of its thickness is populated by image - processing circuitry that is capable of detecting edges (boundaries between light and dark) and motion for about a million tiny image regions.

The target shrinks to one - tenth of a millimeter when struck by the beams.

By teasing out signatures of particles just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion - degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and from other sites are gaining new insights about fundamental physics.

An innovative leather / fabric material is used for the upholstery — thin strips of leather just a few tenths of a millimeter wide, are interwoven with yarn.

The complete text was scanned one - tenth of a millimeter at a time with a 10,200 - pixel scanner by technicians from DigitalFusion.

Burning oil contributes a few tenths of a millimeter over the last 30 years also.

Its dimensions are 159.4 x 77.8 x 7.3 mm, making it just one tenth of a millimeter taller than the Nexus 6, but notably narrower and thinner than its predecessors measurements of 159.3 x 83 x 10.1 mm.

Apple manages to shave a couple tenths of a millimeter here and there, but when wearing the watches it's impossible to feel or see the difference.

If life - sized, the field in the photos in this slideshow would be six - tenths of a millimeter in width.

The nail had missed a main artery by around a tenth of a millimeter, Bergeson said.

They were able to measure «down to a tenth of a millimeter to make sure everything was exactly the way it should be compared to the CAD files it started with.»

The ancient zircons are tiny — about two - tenths of a millimeter — and measuring their magnetization is a technological challenge.

They're good at providing snapshots as small as a millimeter and can tell us about brain activity, but they can't capture the formation of human plaques or tangles, which are about 100 microns, or a tenth of a millimeter — about twice the thickness of a cat's whisker.

However, our eyes can not see something much less than the width of a hair (about a tenth of a millimeter) without the aid of a magnifying device.

For instance, small fruit flies have the longest sperm ever described, not whales, whose sperm are less than a tenth of a millimeter long and almost a thousand times shorter than those of the flies.

But new modeling studies by Marchant and his team have shown that sublimation of deeply buried ice is extremely slow, less than a tenth of a millimeter per year.

A tenth of a millimeter is relatively small, in contrast, although it's still big on a microscopic level.

It is around 120 microns, or about a tenth of a millimeter, in size so it is very conducive to freezing and using cryoprotectants.

Using these results, the team calculated that from the 1950s to the mid-1990s, Alaskan glacier melt caused sea levels to swell one - tenth of a millimeter a year.

This so - called compactification generates a number of «modulus» forces, some of which would be comparable to gravity at distances approaching a tenth of a millimeter under certain string theory scenarios.

And ecological data from living U.K. birds showed that over the past 26 years, their beaks have lengthened about a tenth of a millimeter.

They are a mere seven tenths of a millimeter in length, and the volume of vaccine — a major contributor to pain — is minuscule.

It is not very thick — maybe 100 microns in diameter (a micron is a millionth of a meter, so 100 microns is a tenth of a millimeter).

That dream is realized today on the news that Verizon is picking up an LTE - enabled version of the device, and amazingly, it's not even a tenth of a millimeter thicker than its non-LTE European cousin.

Except this time the titanium dioxide arrives in the form of nanotubes about 135 nanometers wide and a tenth of a millimeter long.

Thickness has dropped by just two - tenths of a millimeter, and weight has dropped only a few grams.

That doesn't seem like a lot on paper, but on a watch, you notice every tenth of a millimeter.