Typically, the doctors apply about a thousandth of the power that's used in a flashlight bulb.
The rem can be expressed in smaller units called millirems, which equal one one-thousandth of a rem.
By refining the system further, he expects to be able to weigh a zeptogram a thousandth of an attogram.
Every hamburger comes out of a stamping machine exactly 1.6 ounces, its thickness measured to the thousandth of an inch.
Even when adjusted for inflation, that's less than one one-thousandth of the sales this still lithe giant racks up today.
"Even the two-thousandth time you deal with a bear, you have to treat it like it's the first time, " his assistant, Philippe, says.
Today, gaining a mere thousandth of a percent CTR is a success, despite access to increasingly sophisticated technologies and targeting.
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It's the manipulation of manufactured materials measuring less than 100 nanometers, or a thousandth the width of a strand of hair.
Sharp's new finely grained silicon technology could ultimately produce transistors one-thousandth the size of current ones, well in range of holography.
Chipmakers are getting on board now that wafer-circuitry has narrowed below 90 nanometers, or one one-thousandth the width of a human hair.
Every hamburger comes out of a stamping machine weighing exactly 45 grams, with its thickness measured to the thousandth of a centimeter.
Now, the team has shrunk the product to the requisite thousandth of a millimetre across, which will easily fit on a chip.
Air bubbles between a hundredth and a thousandth of a millimetre across can reflect ultrasound thousands of times more effectively than flesh does.
Because the pain medicine is so specifically targeted, it can be delivered in doses of a thousandth to a ten-thousandth of those currently employed.
Then a technique known as interferometry will be used to refine that value to a few microns (a micron is a thousandth of a millimetre).
As these lived for less than a thousandth of a second, their presence was ascertained by examining the daughter atoms into which they quickly decayed.
Like yocto, its etymological roots lie in the Greek octa yotta signifies one thousand raised to the 8th power, and yocto signifies one thousandth raised to the 8th power.
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But it was concentrated onto a speck a little more than one thousandth of a millimetre across and it lasted for just 30 femtoseconds (30 million billionths of a second).
The aperture will adjust from F2.9 to F8 without any prompting, and the shutter will set itself anywhere from one-thirtieth of a second to one-one thousandth of a second.
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To put this in perspective, if the Earth's 6.4 billion people each did one calculation per second, we would be working at about one ten-thousandth of the speed of TeraGrid.
But when that data ends up on the open market, you may be surprised at the price it fetches: in this case, less than half a thousandth of a penny.
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After that the industry will have to move on to nonoptical techniques, such as electron beams or even X rays, which have wavelengths less than a nanometer, one thousandth of a micron.
After that the industry will have to move on to nonoptical techniques, such as electron beams or even X rays, which have wavelengths less than 1 nanometer, or one-thousandth of a micron.
When the effects are calculated in a standard climate model, the result is a reduction in average temperature of 0.00005oC (one twenty-thousandth of a degree Celsius, or one ten-thousandth of a degree Fahrenheit).
All other things being equal, the point of a justice system should be to identify that thousandth guy, find a way to keep him from harming other people, and give everyone else a break.
To their surprise, they discovered that the seed-formation rates for sulphuric acid and ammonia are between a tenth and a thousandth of those needed to account for the cloud seeding actually seen in the atmosphere.
One Saturday evening in early 2001 Rabinowitz mixed the drug with a solvent, transforming the mound of powder into a film 1 micron thick (that's a thousandth of a millimeter) coating a piece of foil.
The prototype white-space devices used in trials had little trouble sensing occupied TV channels, typically picking them up at signal strengths less than a thousandth of that needed to display an image on a TV screen.
And I want to say for the thousandth time, in my own name and in the name of all of my fellow members of the Fatah movement: We do not demand that the Hamas movement recognize Israel.
Earlier Thursday, new Alpha commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin beamed down a message marking the one-thousandth day in space for the first component of the space station, the Russian-built Zarya module.
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