Sentence examples for scale of half from inspiring English sources

"You can see things on the length scale of half a continent," he explains.

The onset flow has a turbulence intensity of 12% at mid depth and a longitudinal turbulence length scale of half the depth, about 5 times the vertical scale, typical of shallow flows.

Bragg scatter results from radar returns from turbulent irregularities in the electron density with scales of half the projection of the radar wavelength onto the wave vector.

It is well known that VHF radar echoes in the mesosphere are due to both the presence of irregularities with scales of half the radar wavelengths, and also the production and loss rates of electrons in the lower D-region.

Thus, radar returns depend not only on the presence of irregularities with scales of half the radar wavelengths, and thin horizontally stratified layers, but also on the production and loss rates of electrons in the lower D-region.

Sensitivity and specificity of endorsing item no. 5 for high stress (10-item Perceived Stress Scale [ 33] score of half a standard deviation higher than the norm for age-matched U.S. general population).

A miniature Alcoa beach house, on the scale of one half actual size, was in the middle of the floor.

Even the most seemingly original music in "Trionfo," Orff's imaginary equivalent of the lascivious Greek "chromatic genus" (to which he sets the bride and groom's lines), turns out to be a Stravinsky surrogate, derived from the scale of alternating half and whole steps that Stravinsky inherited from his teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, who got it from Liszt.

Along with his one-dimensional study, Dr. Adams recreated a three-dimensional model on the scale of a half-inch to one foot.

Let us remember that the unity movement in Europe was precisely an attempt at creating a regional entity, and that its origins and its springs resembled, on the reduced scale of a half-continent, the process dreamed up by Kant in his Idea of Universal History.

Whole-tone scale, in music, a scalar arrangement of pitches, each separated from the next by a whole-tone step (or whole step), in contradistinction to the chromatic scale (consisting entirely of half steps, also called semitones) and the various diatonic scales, such as the major and minor scales (which are different arrangements of whole and half steps).