Sentence examples for metre from a from inspiring English sources

He and his colleagues have discovered that the conditions change if a photovoltaic cell is placed a few hundred nanometres (billionths of a metre) from a hot surface made of silicon carbide alloy.

This is also equivalent to the illumination that would exist on a surface all points of which are one metre from a point source of one international candle (candela).

Using directional radio sensing, phones can calculate their position, often to within a metre, from a single beacon.A different approach that also works with existing phones is to install lighting based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that provide illumination but also flicker, invisibly fast, in a unique pattern.

An observer situated one metre from a vocalizing whale would perceive a volume roughly equivalent to the volume of a jackhammer operating two metres away.

For example, the field intensity a metre from an EM source will be 4 times greater than the intensity 2 metres away, and 9 times greater than a measurement taken 3 metres away from the source.

Several years ago, I worked in an office metres from a superstore and quite far – in lunch hour terms – from anywhere else.

They were a kilometre from the nearest beach, but only a few metres from a rocky, vertical cliff.

The rest sleep outside, a few hundred metres from a grim row of burnt-out trains and factory chimneys.

There's a particularly telling scene with tourists sunning themselves on the beach, metres from a police crime-scene tent.

Stopping ten metres from a grazing rhino, he asked us to shout out if it charged the landrover.

It was followed by a second attack about 200 metres from a military camp, said a police officer who asked not to be identified.