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Millimeter in sentence

49 examples of Millimeter in a sentence

I've had to move that part across, but only a millimeter.
I moved three things by a millimeter.
Another millimeter?
Now this little critter, it's only about half a millimeter in size, not terribly charismatic.
One square millimeter of a gecko's footpad has 14,000 hair-like structures called setae.
It's one millimeter long, but it looks like Godzilla next to these micromachines.
The physical model, on the other hand, is 2,700 layers, one millimeter thick, it weighs 700 kilos, it's made of sheet that can cover this entire auditorium.
It's about a tenth of a millimeter.
So sand is about a tenth of a millimeter in size.
Each sand grain is about a tenth of a millimeter in size.
And this gap has become shorter, shorter, and even shorter, and now this gap is shortened down to less than a millimeter, the thickness of a touch-screen glass, and the power of computing has become accessible to everyone.
It will go in search of phosphorus, but only within the one millimeter which surrounds it.
Beyond one millimeter, the root is ineffective.
The base of those petals has to go to the same place every time to within a tenth of a millimeter.
We ran this test 16 times, and 16 times it went into the exact same place to a tenth of a millimeter.
That's one thousandth of a millimeter.
Each pixel is two-thousandths of a millimeter wide.
This is significant, because every tumor bigger than a cubic millimeter or two has five times the amount of blood as normal flesh.
Almost everyone who hasn't heard this before is surprised when they hear that if you take a 0.1 millimeter thick sheet of paper, the size we normally use, and, if it were big enough, fold it 50 times, its thickness would extend almost the distance from the Earth to the sun.
That spark is about to be conferred by the creator in that finger, which is one millimeter from the hand of Adam.
Imagine an airplane flying one millimeter above the ground and circling the Earth once every 25 seconds while counting every blade of grass.
This one millimeter animal can survive both the hottest and coldest environments on Earth, and can even withstand high levels of radiation.
The entire sample here is about one cubic millimeter in size, and I'm showing you a very, very small piece of it here.
In a cubic millimeter of your brain, there are about 100,000 of these neurons and maybe a billion of those connections.
It had to come through intergalactic space, through the Earth's atmosphere, where water vapor can absorb it, and everything worked out perfectly, the size of the Earth at that wavelength of light, one millimeter wavelength, was just right to resolve that black hole, 55 million light-years away.
By pairing the modulator with a super- sensitive, fast-acting light detector, the resolution can be refined to a millimeter.
With integrated photonics, modulators and detectors are being shrunk to less than a tenth of a millimeter, and packed into tiny chips that’ll one day fit inside a car’s lights.
Today, an emerging medical sensor industry is exploring all-new degrees of precision chemical fingerprinting, using tiny light-manipulating devices no larger than a tenth of a millimeter.
So there could be another universe just a millimeter away from ours, but we're not aware of it because that millimeter is measured in some fourth spatial dimension, and we're imprisoned in our three.
We sort the plastic fragments into different size classes, from five millimeters to one-third of a millimeter.