Sentence examples for about a meter long from inspiring English sources

A bundle of rubber about a meter long and half a meter thick, with optimized electronics and an improved buoy design, could generate a kilowatt of electricity, Kornbluh says.

The information was "played through" a robot, not a tiny insect robot but one with wings about a meter long immersed in mineral oil to mimic the viscosity of air for something the size of a fruit fly.

This tubby fish, about a meter long, swims by flapping its pectoral fins.

Preliminary tests at the museum were encouraging, so they built their own sculptures in the lab, arranging up to 500 wooden or steel rods, about a meter long, as a cube or a triangle.

You're also given a gun, about a meter long, which is pretty accurate to a real gun.

Find a preferred straight stick about a meter long, or just one that is around your height.

Now that it's been eliminated, Quinn ­Smithwick, a postdoc in the lab, has figured out how to shorten and fold the system's optical path so that the ­necessary components fit into a space about half a meter long.

Microwaves that we use to heat food have wavelengths that are about 1 hundredth of a meter long and have frequencies of about 2.5 billion Hz (Maruthi et al. 2011a, b, c).

The sausage-shape melanosomes were about 1 millionth of a meter long and 250 billionths of a meter wide that is, about one-hundredth the diameter of a human hair in length and less than a wavelength of visible light in width.

These "nanocages" are cubes of gold, with sides about 50-billionths of a meter long and holes at each corner.

These nanotubes are on the order of a billionth of a meter wide, and about three-millionths of a meter long.