Consider a cycle of DNA replication occurring in a tiny time interval τ.
The expected concentration, cE, that a Ca2+ ion exerts upon a nearby receptor, Δ S nm away after τ ms, was used to calculate the probability of not binding during a tiny time interval Δ τ ≫ Δ t.
Actually, the tiny interval of silence between the playing of the last note and the beginning of the applause, as the music fades into the air, can be the most magical thing - as if you and the whole audience and the musicians are holding your breath together, savouring what's just been and reluctant to let it go.
Molecular simulations are now done as a series of tiny intervals that may be as short as a femtosecond, one billionth of one millionth of a second, and may last no longer than a microsecond, or one millionth of a second.
He lets us glimpse Chow's suffering only in the tiny intervals after he leaves a companion; then the smiling bonhomie or flirtatiousness falls away, revealing the bleak eyes and weary solitude of a man in thrall to a perverse fidelity: the refusal to heal.
These tiny intervals between the shadow's edge and the untouched tips create a kind of tension, an energy, in Mr. Tuttle's micromanaged universe.
He has tuned violins in odd ways and explored tiny intervals of sound.
There's big money riding on those tiny intervals.
Operating in a top-up mode requires frequent beam injection from the synchrotron booster to the storage ring of the light source, but the injection intervals occupy only a tiny portion of the operational time of the integrated machine.
They help generate extra volume from "black box" traders who use computer programs to buy and sell stocks in millisecond intervals, often for a tiny loss, in order to reap rebates of 20 cents per 100 shares.
You'd get dressed up and sit in grown-up silence on a shabby red velvet seat and, as a treat, savour a tiny tub of luxury ice-cream at the interval.
