Sentence examples for meter for example from inspiring English sources

A meter, for example, is the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

And when he needs a more sophisticated tool -- a portable meter, for example, to record the amount of moisture in the wood -- he is likely to have to scramble out from a crawl space to make his way to his Ford pickup truck with its trove of other relatively newfangled tools.

The lemur used 60 units of energy to walk 1 meter, for example, and the loris used 140 units.

Vehicles are placed on the line according to a Poisson point process with network density β (in vehicles per meter); for example, the probability of finding i vehicles in length of l is given by (1).

(2) Vehicles are placed on the line according to a Poisson point process with network density β (in vehicles per meter); for example, the probability of finding i vehicles in length of l is given by (1)   (3) All vehicles have the same transmission and receiving range, which is denoted by R. The average number of vehicles in transmission range of a vehicle on the road is.

The networks have recently promoted their efforts to serve the "small payments" market — encouraging consumers to use cards for parking meters, for example.

Invoking its name puts any policy beyond the pale – household metering, for example, was called a poll tax on water, and rail privatisation a poll tax on wheels.

If drug testing is able to stay a step ahead of drug use -- no sure thing -- he predicted that progress could return to its old trajectory: roughly 80 years from now, the record time at 800 meters, for example, would simply be double today's record at 400 meters.

Take parking meters, for example.

For a limited set of meters, for example, as in ballroom dance music the complexity can be reduced—at the gain of accuracy to binary decisions between duple or triple periods on the measure level.

Mehldau's performances often employ unusual rhythmic meters; for example, he plays his arrangement of "All the Things You Are" on Art of the Trio 4 in 7/4 time, and "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" on Art of the Trio 1 in 5/4.