Word: diameterically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The place was quiet inside, but the drive-through was bustling, and service was a tad slow. I busied myself preparing my Coke and was impressed by the expansive diameter of the straws - excellent for quenching a powerful thirst like the one had I built up in a hectic, bleary...
Five minutes into its launch, the California rocket will release its mock warhead. The accompanying balloon will quickly inflate to its 6-ft.-plus diameter. Traveling less than a mile away from the mock warhead, the balloon is supposed to lure the interceptor away from its intended target. The warhead...
Back in the sky over the Pacific on Friday, physics and chemistry will take over. The interceptor's three sensors--two detecting heat and one detecting visible light--all share the telescope that juts out its front end. The visible-light sensor will get the interceptor into the right neighborhood...
Bandwidth is the ability to move bits. Broadband is the ability to move a lot of bits per second. Though everybody seems to do it, likening bandwidth to the diameter of a pipe is misleading, because our consumption of bits is not analogous to drinking from a garden or fire...
The Pentagon is now in the midst of three tests; so far, the system is 1 for 2. The first test, over the Pacific last October, blasted a fake warhead to smithereens. But the second, in January, missed by about 150 yards when a "few molecules" of water froze inside...