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Waves, on the other hand, are disturbances spread out in space, like ripples covering the surface of a pond.
And the news he brought back to Europe spread far and wide, inspiring all the explorers and settlers who came after.
An electron near the nucleus of an atom exists in a spread out, wave-like orbit.
Those chips and their spread out electrons power the computer you're using to watch this video.
Michelangelo soon found that thanks to the printing press, complaints about the nudity spread all over the place, and soon his masterpiece of human drama was labeled pornography, at which point he added two more portraits, one of the man who criticized him, a papal courtier, and the other one of himself as a dried up husk, no athlete, in the hands of a long-suffering martyr.
But he promised to spread the word, and now we work closely with the United Nations.
However, the borrowed crossbow isn't adjusted perfectly, and William finds that his practice shots cluster in a tight spread beneath the bullseye.
Then, they spin that solution in a glass tube at a breakneck 5000 rotations per minute, making the solution spread out into a thin film.
This unboiling method won't work with a whole egg in its shell since the solution has to spread throughout a cylindrical chamber.
Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward-looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.
This journey reportedly took over a year, and by the time Mansa Musa returned, tales of his amazing wealth had spread to the ports of the Mediterranean.
As for all living creatures, the human body evolved to promote the spread of its genes.
But instead of being centralized in the brain, these 500 million neurons are spread out in a network of interconnected ganglia organized into three basic structures.
It was the neighboring empires who had invaded France trying to restore the monarchy, and prevent the spread of liberty across Europe, twice by the time Napoléon took charge.
"You forgot the other result: the spread of democratic and liberal ideals across Europe.
In some cases, viruses spread further, even into the blood and vital organs.
Graphs like this are often used to map communication networks, but they can represent almost any kind of network, from transport connections within a city and social relationships among people, to chemical interactions between proteins or the spread of an epidemic through different locations.
But the metric system remained standard for formal use, and it spread across the continent, along with France's borders.
Could human civilization eventually spread across the whole Milky Way galaxy?
And yet, decades ago, scholars found that it's theoretically possible to not just spread human civilization across the galaxy, but to do so quite quickly, without breaking any known laws of physics.
If we wanted to use them to spread actual humans throughout the galaxy, we would need yet another technological leap - the ability to artificially grow biological organisms and bodies using raw elements and genetic information.
Right now we're seeing microbial diseases from the tropics spread to the higher latitudes; the transportation revolution has had a lot to do with this.
It was the great race that supposedly determined which animals were enshrined in the Chinese zodiac, but as the system spread through Asia, other cultures made changes to reflect their communities.
And in my mind, my job was to take care of patients and to do research to better understand the population patterns of transmission, and I hoped that we'd slow the spread of the virus.
When an animal leaves more offspring, its genes will spread.
This way, the genes of the most musical penises spread, leading to rapid evolution of insects' phalluses.
Smaller animals couldn't swallow the avocado's huge seed, but the sloths could, and they spread avocado trees far and wide.
This gave China a great deal of power and economic influence as tea drinking spread around the world.
That spread began in earnest around the early 1600s when Dutch traders brought tea to Europe in large quantities.
And as Great Britain grew, interest in tea spread around the world.
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