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The researchers have discovered a new group of microscopic organisms, which they have baptized 'picobiliphytes': pico because of their extremely small size, measured in millionths of a meter, bili because they contain biliproteins, highly fluorescent substances that transform light into biomass, and phyte meaning they are plants.

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Each camera has a slightly different lag time measured in millionths of seconds.

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It is measured in millionths of the usual unit of heat and is recorded in a thermoelectrical way in the form of readings on a galvanometer.

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The three spacecraft will be put into orbits at a distance of 5 million kilometres from one another, connected only by a laser beam that will measure their positions accurate to 40 millionths of a millionth of a metre.

Spacecraft To Test Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity | Impact Lab 2010

It may have knocked Earth off its axis by about 6.5 inches, causing our world to rotate faster and shortening the day -- by about 1.8 millionths of a second.

Quake shifted Japan coast about 13 feet, knocked Earth 6.5 inches off axis 2011

In high-frequency trading, firms use supercomputers to hunt for market "signals"—such as interest-rate movements—and then make trades in a matter of microseconds millionths of a second attempting to catch fleeting moves.

Australia Grants Exchange License to Chi-X Geoffrey Rogow 2011

Moreover, a May 6 "flash crash" in the U.S., in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 600 points in about five minutes, has sharpened regulators' focus on high-frequency trading, in which firms use supercomputers to hunt for market signals, such as the movement of interest rates, and make trades in a matter of microseconds, or millionths of a second, in an attempt to catch fleeting moves.

Australia's Second Exchange Could Open in October Geoffrey Rogow 2011

When I'm done, the gold is about five millionths of an inch thick.

Amber Room W.F. Lantry 2011

The book explains the physics and physiological effects in terms of millionths and thousandths of a second as the blast erupts and spreads, including the random chances that allowed some to survive while all around them were killed.

Book Review: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010

The book explains the physics and physiological effects in terms of millionths and thousandths of a second as the blast erupts and spreads, including the random chances that allowed some to survive while all around them were killed.

A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino » Print 2010