You're presented with a mixture of absolute and relative knobs across the surface -- smoothed action on the absolute, notched on the relative.

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One reason for this change is that a tiny thing has a large surface area relative to its mass.

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And, at this point, the tiny, dry insulin particles had such a large surface area relative to their mass that, like popcorn or flour, they poured unevenly, leaving air pockets and inconsistent doses.

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Meanwhile, Apple reported results that on the surface appeared better relative to expectations.

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Hirvonen and Loeb both slowed dramatically on the first day's final stage in order to avoid being the first cars on the road on Saturday, when they anticipated loose gravel on the surface would slow the leader relative to the chasing pack.

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For GPS, this is an enormous issue because it turns out that the clocks on the satellites drift by almost 40, 000 nanoseconds per day relative to the clocks on the ground because they are high above the earth's surface (and therefore in a weaker gravitational field) and are moving fast relative to the ground.

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It pointed out that Microsoft, a relative newcomer to the tablet market, was making modest yet promising progress with its Surface range of tablets - 900, 000 units were shipped in the first quarter.

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The surface was really too benign to cause him problems and Oram swatted him away with relative ease.

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V4, where the light reflected from a surface is compared with that reflected from surrounding surfaces, in order to control for relative rather than absolute brightness.

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