The idea was based on the fact that the time taken for a sound wave to travel along a few feet of pipe was of the order of a thousandth of a second.

So you could actually draw out a 36000-kilometer strand or ribbon of nanotubes stronger than steel, but maybe a thousandth the thickness of a human hair.

所以，你真的能够拉出一条三万六千公里长的纳米管线，或者纳米管带，其强度比钢铁要高，但其厚度可能只是人类头发的千分之一。

Most of the fog is made of particles a little smaller than a thousandth of an inch wide, with an occasional larger particle settling out and falling toward the surface.

火星雾的绝大部分是由一个个微粒组成，而这些微粒的直径小于一英寸宽的一千分之一；偶尔会有稍大一些颗粒沉降出来，坠向火星表面。

She could not write, because she could not attain to expressing truly in a letter a thousandth part of what she habitually expressed in voice and smile and eyes.

她不擅长于写信，因为她不能在信中真实地表达她惯于用那语声、微笑和眼神所表达的千分之一的情感。

Therefore, though the dust concentration is very low ( a few thousandth), its effects on lots of plasma processes cannot be neglected.

所以，尽管在等离子体加工中，尘粒的含量很低，可能只有千分之几，但其影响却不容忽视。

One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across. The hall is 15 metres in length and 8 in width.

一微米等于千分之一毫米。针头直径大约一毫米。这个大厅直里有十五米，横里有八米。

The startling images confirm that the DNA origami process efficiently produced Escher-like M ö bius strips measuring less than a thousandth the width of a human hair.

令人吃惊的图像证实了DNA折纸过程中有效地产生埃舍尔式的莫比乌斯带测量超过千分之一的人类头发的宽度减少。

One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across.

一微米等于千分之一毫米。针头直径大约一毫米。

Consisting of a thousandth. Indicates whether thousands separator will be inserted between every three decimal digits.

千分的构成千分之一的表示每三位数是否应加入千位分隔符号。

This was within the range of automatic telephone exchange equipment, which could perform switching operations in a thousandth of a second.

自动电话系统可以在千分之一秒内执行一次开关动作，

What you see here, the blue areas are about a thousandth of a degree cooler than the red areas.

你现在看到的蓝色的区域相比于红色的区域要冷上大约一千度。

A [ one] hundred percent, They "flash" into a vapor which fills the whole tank with metallic gas, and a film, one millionth of an inch thick, is deposited on whatever is inside the tank.

罐内任何物体的表面上都会形成一层一百万分之一英寸厚的金属膜。

A unit of length equal to one thousandth ( 10-3) of a millimeter or one millionth ( 10-6) of a meter.

微米等于千分之一（10－3）毫米的长度单位或一米的百万分之一（10－6）

All of space expanded by an unbelievably large factor in a fraction of a second, we think that in less than a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a second.

扩张的空间被一种难以想象的巨大因素牵引着。这一瞬间比万万万万亿分之一秒还短。

The beam runs diagonally across the photo ( above); it measures 10 microns long and 300 nanometers wide. ( a micron is one millionth of a meter.)

硅束长10微米（1微米为百万分之一米）宽300纳米，以对角线方式扫过照片（如上图）。

It's accurate to within one ten-thousandth of 1%, but Amazon engineers are scrambling to improve it to a millionth of 1% ahead of its launch, the source said.

据消息人士透露，这一系统已精准到出错率不到百万分之一，但亚马逊的工程师们正努力在正式推出之前，将出错率降至亿分之一。

The point was that electronic valves could respond in a millionth of a second, there being no moving parts but the electrons themselves, while the electromagnetic relay had to make a physical click.

电子管的反应时间只有0.000001秒，与电磁继电器不同的是，它本身并不发生物理上的移动，而是其中的电子在移动。

The entire observable universe was a millionth of a billionth of a centimeter across at that time. Everything was compressed into an incredibly hot, dense region.

在那时整个可观测到的宇宙也不过只有千万亿分之一毫米大。一切都被压缩在一个温度极高，密度极大的区域里。

Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, deals with phenomena on extremely small scales, such as a millionth of a millionth of an inch.

另一方面，量子力学解决的问题是极小尺度里的现象，例如万亿亿分之一英寸。

The pipe, or delay line, would have to cope with pulses separated by only a millionth of a second, and to transmit them unsmudged.

管道，或者说延迟线，需要接收百万分之一秒的脉冲信号，并让它们原封不动地进行传输。

These human-induced alterations occupying overall less than a millionth of the elapsed lifetime and seemingly occurring with runaway speed?

这些由人类主导的改变，虽然只是发生在生命历程中的不到百万分之一的时段内，却有着惊人的改变速度。