Sentence examples for billionth of a unit from inspiring English sources

Might femtocells really be that disruptive?"Femto" is the metric prefix denoting one quadrillionth (million billionth) of a unit.

"Nano" is Greek for dwarf; in scientific terms it represents a billionth of a unit, the nanometer being the unit associated with this field.

A 250ml glass contains just a fifth of a unit of alcohol.

A 50p limit should cut alcohol consumption among moderate drinkers by about 3.5%, or half a unit for women and two-thirds of a unit for men.

To turn the ratio around: If you want to displace a unit of petroleum energy, you have to burn four-fifths of a unit in fossil fuels.

But every little bit counts when records are measured down a hundredth of a unit, and anyway, who knows but that some strange new shape might totally change the game?

Our results showed that benzoate addition at external pH 7 acidifies the cytoplasm by several tenths of a unit, a change comparable to that observed following external acid shift, either rapid or steady-state [3].

A tenth of a unit increase in the average case-mix decreases the average amount of direct individual care for patients with about three percent.

Model 1 shows a very small association between cancer and K6 score, such that having cancer was associated with four tenths of a unit increase on the scale (b = 0.395; p < 0.01).

Each number on the dial represents a tenth of a unit, and the tick marks between them depict the hundredths of a unit.

Well, similarly in continuous time, we can talk about an impulse function, which is the first derivative of a unit step function.