Sentences with phrase «than a millimeter on»

I know Andre Miller used to say he'd just tighten his shoe laces... but heck his jumper was probably less than a millimeter on his good days.

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It is 10 millimeters wide and 24 inches long, making it a little thicker than most of the other necklaces on this list.

A paper in Science Advances by Rice engineers Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Richard Baraniuk and their labs describes a wide - field microscope thinner than a credit card, small enough to sit on a fingertip and capable of micrometer resolution over a volume of several cubic millimeters.

The flat, wingless insects are tiny (between one and two millimeters long — less than a tenth of an inch), suck on human blood, and cement their eggs, or nits, to our hair.

On average, he found, plowed land erodes at slightly more than 1 millimeter per year, while new soil builds up at about 0.2 millimeter per year.

The technique is sensitive enough to detect a glass bead less than half a millimeter wide on a latex sheet.

These spherical arachnids (pictured), most shorter than a millimeter, can trek up to 4 meters in the belly of a gastropod — about 2000 times farther than they can get on their own, according to a new study.

Parnell's team has been able to show that sea level rise on the East Coast has been much less than 1 millimeter (mm) per year for the entire period 0 AD to 1800 AD, and, since then, it's skyrocketed.

Now, using 3D printing, a group of engineers has created star - shaped structures (pictured) on a millimeter scale that are able to heat more uniformly than other materials have in the past.

To get a different view, astronomer Giovanna Tinetti and her colleagues at the European Space Agency and University College London focused instead on the light grazing the atmosphere of HD 189733 b. Tinetti had predicted that water would absorb more light at the longer wavelength of 5.8 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) than at 3.6 microns, in contrast with other molecules such as methane and ammonia.

That's a tiny amount — 1 fm is 0.000000000001 millimeter — but is still significantly larger than the error bars on either of the other measurements.

Each is less than a millimeter across, and both can be manufactured together on a single chip.

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.

This research is part of the Pulmonary Nodule Plasma Proteomic Classifier (PANOPTIC) study, a clinical trial of 685 patients 40 years old or older, with newly discovered lung nodules 8 to 30 millimeters in diameter as shown on a recent (fewer than 60 days old) CT scan.

That's less than the 1.5 - millimeters - a-year rate calculated in 2011 and cited in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

By contrast, the new nano - spirals have solid arms and are much smaller: A square array with 100 nano - spirals on a side is less than a hundredth of a millimeter wide.

In their paper, published today in Nature, the researchers describe H. mephisto as physically similar to surface nematodes, about half a millimeter long and having evolved to be fonder of devouring subsurface bacteria than of dining on the common surface bacterium Escherichia coli.

The new work in Nature Communications overcame fundamental barriers in utilizing LED technology on monolayer semiconductors, allowing for such devices to be scaled from sizes smaller than the width of a human hair up to several millimeters.

Since the 19th century, sea level has shot up more than 2 millimeters per year on average, far faster than other periods of global temperature change.

A new connectivity infrastructure that will allow the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) observatory to increase its data transmission capacity by more than 25 times begins construction today, thanks to the signing of a contract for optical connectivity between Associated Universities Inc. (AUI), on behalf of ALMA, and two Chilean companies: Silica Networks Chile S.A. and Telefónica Empresas Chile S.A.

They were also more likely to have larger tumors (by 10 millimeters, on average) and to need a mastectomy than those in the 24 months or less group.

The E63's staggered - width Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summmer tires have a 20 - millimeter - larger cross section than the E43's Pirelli P Zero Run Flats, which helped our E63 notch an additional 0.09 g of grip on the skidpad, for a sticky total of 1.01 g.

Up front, six - pot calipers clamp down on rotors that are more than 15 inches in diameter (390 millimeters).

At a length of 367 millimeters and a weight of 86 kilograms, the 7G - DCT is more compact and lighter than the transmissions in this torque class which have been available on the market to date.

The A1 quattro is 3,987 millimeters (13.08 ft) long, 1,740 millimeters (5.71 ft) wide and 1,416 millimeters (4.65 ft) tall, making it somewhat longer than the model on which it is based.

The width has been increased by 12 millimeters (0.5 in) to 1,886 millimeters (6.2 ft) while the height at 1,457 millimeters (4.8 ft) is now 2 millimeters (0.1 in) more than on the outgoing model.

On the front axle, the ventilated discs measure no less than 400 millimeters in diameter, with braking force delivered via six cylinder calipers.

The new model sits 20 millimeters lower to the ground than the standard model, and is reportedly good for a top speed of 180 mph on your local derestricted autobahn.

Honda accompanies that bold stroke with abbreviated front and rear overhangs and fenders that cling to the tires with a 50 - millimeter gap — narrower, says Honda, than those on a 5 Series car from BMW.

In the event of an imminent side impact at more than 25 km / h (15.5 mph) the suspension actuators raise the body on the exposed side by up to 80 millimeters (3.1 in) within half a second.

While the length (4,310 millimeters [14.14 ft]-RRB-, width (1,780 millimeters [5.84 ft]-RRB- and height (1,425 millimeters [4.68 ft]-RRB- are only slightly greater than on the previous model, the wheelbase now measures 2,636 millimeters (8.65 ft), an increase of 58 millimeters (2.28 in).

The new M5 is bigger than ever before, putting on 55 millimeters in length and 46 millimeters in width over its direct predecessor.

Its body sits up to 31.5 millimeters (1.2 in) higher than on the A6 Avant.

And the ability to reach farther into the midsection of the page lessened the disadvantage of working with such a deeply inset screen (Amazon says that the inset was necessary for its touch technology — but it's noticeably thicker, by millimeters, than the inset on the competing Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch and Kobo eReader Touch Edition).

The Galaxy Tab S2 follows on from last year's Tab S in being a high - resolution tablet, but while Samsung manages to put in a similar - sized 9.7 - inch AMOLED display to the iPad Air 2 with a 2048x1536 resolution, along with an eight - inch variant, Samsung has also made it 5.6 mm thick, thinner than the Air 2 by half a millimeter.

The T300 Chi, on the other hand, feels well balanced despite the tablet portion being just a few fractions of a millimeter thicker and ounces heavier than its keyboard base.

Since the late 19th century, sea level has risen by more than 2 millimeters per year on average, the steepest rate for more than 2,100 years.

You can check my 1988 - Naturwissenschaften - paper on dust transport for the particle size versus suspension lifetime stats, The bottom line is that as millimeter sized grains fall out in hours, and vertical convection systems seldom cohere for days, few particles larger than tens of microns make it across the pond.

Not only can it conjure a boiling liquid on demand but the spray mechanism is no small engineering feat, using a chamber less than one millimeter long the beetle can control the direction, consistency, and rapidity of their defensive spray.

Samsung and LG have opted for 5.1 - inch and 5.3 - inch screens respectively on their top phones this year, and although the OnePlus 3 has a 5.5 - inch screen, it's barely wider than the LG G5 and a millimeter or so longer.

That's why providers are experimenting with broadcasting on millimeter waves, which use higher frequencies than the radio waves that have long been used for mobile phones.

Luckily, antennas on small cells can be much smaller than traditional antennas if they are transmitting tiny millimeter waves.

The keys have 1.7 millimeters of travel and require 72 grams of force, making them deeper and stronger than the keys on most business laptops.

But despite the keys» minimal 1.3 millimeters of travel and 70 grams of force required to press them, the keyboard feels clicky and tactile — far better than the shallow keyboard on Apple's latest MacBooks.

The slightly thicker build gives more room for battery, and also helps reduce the camera bump on the back to less than half a millimeter.

And with tiny, 4.4 - millimeter bezels on each side of the screen, the MateBook X's display wastes less space than the MacBook.

I had gotten used to typing on a Touch Cover and can hit it quickly enough and without making a sea of errors, but the new 2.75 - millimeter - thin Touch Cover 2 is far more responsive than its predecessor.

While its 46 mm case diameter is on a par with the Moto 360, at 12.6 mm, the Founder Q is more than a millimeter thicker than the 11.4 mm Moto 360.

The Gear Sport's 42 - millimeter case is also smaller than the S3's 46 - mm case, making it look less ridiculous on smaller wrists.

So, if this rumor is something to be believed, then the new iPhone 7s will measure 7.21 - millimeters which is only slightly thicker than the 7.1 - millimeters on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 6s.