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- noun one part in a trillion equal parts
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By the time it had ended in November 1923, the mark was worth only one-trillionth of what it had been worth back in 1914.
The Weimar Hyperinflation: Time to get out the wheelbarrows? 2009
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The LCROSS impact will excavate a crater approximately 20 meters in diameter, or about one-trillionth the total permanently shadowed area.
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That option would trump electronic alternatives for performance -- the light (and data) would pass through the switch in as little as one-trillionth of a second, according to Sargent.
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A picocurie is one-trillionth of a curie, a measurement of a radiological dose.
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"We concluded that a serum VEGF-D level of greater than 800 pg/mL (picograms, or one-trillionth of a gram, per milliliter) in women with typical cystic changes on a high-resolution computed tomography (CT) scan is diagnostically specific for sporadic LAM and identifies LAM in women with TSC," Young says.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"We concluded that a serum VEGF-D level of greater than 800 pg/mL (picograms, or one-trillionth of a gram, per milliliter) in women with typical cystic changes on a high-resolution computed tomography (CT) scan is diagnostically specific for sporadic LAM and identifies LAM in women with TSC," Young says.
innovations-report 2010
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When the medieval doctrine of the valor impositus was in this century revived by the much-admired German Professor G.F. Knapp, it prepared the way for a policy that in 1923 carried the German mark down to one-trillionth of its former value!
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"We concluded that a serum VEGF-D level of greater than 800 pg/mL (picograms, or one-trillionth of a gram, per milliliter) in women with typical cystic changes on a high-resolution computed tomography (CT) scan is diagnostically specific for sporadic LAM and identifies LAM in women with TSC," Young says.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Since graphene is so light, the wrapping and unwrapping would occur on a time scale of one-trillionth of a second.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Since graphene is so light, the wrapping and unwrapping would occur on a time scale of one-trillionth of a second.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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