To be exact, the team managed to discover a wobble of 0.5 metres a second in a star that is roughly 41,300,000,000,000km away, the most precise such measurement ever taken.Indeed, the tininess of the measurement is cause for caution among some planet-hunters, made wary by past experiences of planets being announced and then evaporating on closer inspection.
Insisting that worrisome minorities are "tiny" is in part a form of wishful thinking, as if saying something often enough could make it true, and rhetorical tininess could shrink reality.This sort of euphemism is sometimes a kind of self-delusion as well as a deception.
Transistors' tininess is beginning to turn against them, making chips misbehave and limiting how much extra performance can be wrung from them.That does not mean that Moore's law is coming to an end, at least not yet.
They are taken from a low orbital flight, and although they show the surface of the planet at a considerable remove, you are not at such a distance that the earth dwindles to a nervous-making tininess.
The assumptions that gave rise to this anxiety did not concern the husband's aim so much as the elusive tininess of the adulterers.
You had, on the one hand, tininess, and on the other, plenitude: the experience was of being drawn in over and over to find, in these small images, the even smaller images they contained.
In fact, because of the tininess of what they eat, Asian carp are almost impossible to catch with hook and line.
I'm curious about it, of course, but I'm embarrassed to say that I'm happy with the tininess of the iPod as a reader.
Yet for all their tininess, some of them serve up exceptional, and for the most part cheap, food.
The tininess of the bone correlates with the very short spell that the male spends mating, in the order of seven seconds.
The prefix "nano" is gaining an increasing presence in public consciousness, from invocations of the nanometre (nm) as a unit of measurement for our burgeoning silicon technology's tininess (as in Intel's latest 32nm processors), to the hubristically named iPod nano, which is a bit smaller than the others.
