Silicon has been the favored insulator for tiny wires and switches ever since, even as successive generations of chip wires and switches have been shrunk to the width of a single wavelength of light.
The Onkyo TX-NR807 is one of the first receivers to incorporate Audyssey DSX technology, which allows the back surround channels to be retasked for front-wide speakers to expand the width of the sounds stage, or for front height speakers to provide vertical ambience effects.
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These features include the ability to pin a post to the top of Timeline, the ability to highlight posts which will expand to occupy the width of a Page, and highlighted friend activity surfaced on the right side of Timeline.
The Kangaroos are upset with the home side's decision to narrow the width of the pitch by seven metres.
With the additional space created by the two red cards and the Griffin injury, both sides looked to exploit the width of the pitch in extra time and first Odubade and then Edwards came close with rasping shots that flashed just wide.
The title unfolds, like a pair of outstretched arms, as if trying to grasp the width of a world that was, in Defoe's day, dramatically expanding its sense of possibility.
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Over in print media, Janet Robinson , chief executive of The New York Times Co. (nyse: NYT - news - people ), plans to shrink the width of its flagship paper and cut 250 jobs in the face of a dismal profit picture.
Optical lithography techniques become increasingly problematic as engineers build tinier devices--the wavelength of the light used to cast patterns onto silicon is already bigger than the width of the devices engineers want to create.
To the rear, the full width bumper flows into the rear wheel arches to emphasise the LF-CC's broad, powerful stance.
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Teams were revisiting those roads with snow blowers and JCBs to try to ensure the roads returned to normal width as quickly as possible.
It kept the same side-to-side width, yet added height to grow the screen from its previous 3.5-inch size.
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Treviso demonstrated from the off that they intended to play with pace and width but from the first scrum Leicester began to butcher the home pack and their forward power laid the ground work for the victory.
As a result of its thinner and narrower frame, one-handed use isn't quite as difficult on the Note II since our medium-sized digits were able to reach across the entire width of the screen.
The world number 85 produced some sublime ground strokes throughout the encounter, using the width of the court to trouble Ferrero.
Foden brought the New South Wales Waratahs winger to ground but the Wallabies took the ball through a couple of phases and then moved it through the hands across the width of the pitch for Mitchell to send Elsom striding over for a marvellous try.
The measured move target will be the width of the wedge applied to the breakout point.
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The key difference is the width of the spectrum available to each for the test.
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Most e-reading devices allow the reader to adjust the font, font size, contrast, column width, and other factors to compensate for impaired vision.
With roughly 46 days left to go in the campaign, the sheer width and breadth of gaffes is likely to provide daily fodder for news debate and analysis till election day.
Despite their opening win over Wales, England are still lacking in confidence and struggling to find the right balance between their conservative instincts and the need to play with pace and width against limited opponents who can match their traditional strength up front.
"In the lab we have been able to show healing of cracks with a width of 0.5mm - two to three times higher than the norms state, " Dr Jonkers explained.
That is astonishing to think that a company the width and size of Apple can make such large gains, even when taking into account that they are trading at such high numbers.
What is known is that there are often active zones of DNA transcription within a nucleus that seem to be much bigger than the width of a strand of DNA and its associated proteins.
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In one study, experimenters measured the facial width-to-height ratio of 192 Masters of Business Administration students, 115 of whom were men.
Then head across the width of Scotland to the Ayrshire coast, where you can revel in the wonders of quirky Prestwick, perhaps the most architecturally unique of all great courses - and the birthplace of the British Open.
Lastly, the week saw the unveiling of the world's first fiber-optic solar cell, which is thinner than the width of a human hair and could pave the way to creating energy-producing clothes.
As for parts, the National Weather Service, then busy upgrading its 150 radars (each about the height and width of a doorway), was happy to give Baron the old equipment if he agreed to haul it away.
One side of the silicon can then be etched down to within a fraction of a hair's width of the glass layer, leaving the other side as a support.
Try to imagine the scene at the front of the lines, as already overworked TSA agents are forced to take tape measures or rulers and gauge the length and width of knives, as travelers insist their blades are shorter than 2.36 inches or that they aren't more than a half-inch wide.
BI2's device attaches to the back of an iPhone, adding about 1.75 inches to its width.
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