Due to constraints in the length of the projectile / missile, the built-in stand-off on many warheads is not the optimum distance.

Other than the ability to land the ball on a strategically optimum line and length, the main weapons of the bowler are his ability to move the ball sideways as it approaches the batsman, or his ability to deliver the ball at a high velocity.

The optimum design length of the snorkel tube is at most 40 centimetres ( about 16 inches ).

The Jackson Ratio is expressed as a graph of minimum and optimum weights for a given carapace length.

Since the late 1960s, when Gordon Clark found the optimum formulation of urethane foam, many of the surfboards in common use have been of the shortboard variety between 6 feet and 7 feet in length, with a pointed nose and a rounded or squarish tail, typically with three skegs ( fins ) but sometimes with two or as many as five.

The length of this sound decay, or reverberation time, receives special consideration in the architectural design of large chambers, which need to have specific reverberation times to achieve optimum performance for their intended activity.

No universal optimum relationship exists between the length of the cropping period and the length of the fallow period.

Ripe fruit is very prone to bruising ; difficulty maintaining the fruit in good condition for any length of time, along with the short period of optimum ripeness and full favor, probably explains why feijoas frequently are not exported, and where grown commercially, often only are sold close to the source of the crop.

By this time the ' Bowie knife ' was already being made in a variety of sizes, with the optimum blade length similar to " that of a carving knife " The blade design was described as:

* Clicker-a blade or wire device fitted to the riser, positioned to drop off the arrow when the archer has reached optimum draw length.

After preliminary experiments, a. 416 Rigby case necked down to take a bullet was selected, since this diameter presents an optimum of sectional density and penetrating capability for practical spin stabilized rifle bullets ( bullets up to about 5 to 5. 5 calibers in length ).

The facility to retract the blade to an optimum length serves to prevent unwanted flex to the blade should the full length of the blade be obstructed in some way.

In addition, aperture priority mode allows the photographer to force the camera to operate the lens at its optimum apertures within its aperture range for a given focal length of the lens.

The lack of flash and smoke comes from the length of the barrel ; a long barrel allows cartridge propellant to fully burn and attain the optimum combination of accuracy and bullet velocity.

For a given loop area, the length of the conductor ( and thus its net loss resistance ) is minimized in the case of a circle, making that shape optimum for small loops.

In an optimum wound environment maggots molt twice, increasing in length from 1 – 2 mm to 8 – 10 mm, and in girth, within a period of 3 – 4 days by ingesting necrotic tissue, leaving a clean wound free of necrotic tissue when they are removed.

Modern on-highway diesel engines are designed to provide maximum torque in a narrow RPM range ( usually 1200-1500 RPM ); having more gear ratios means the driver can hold the engine in its optimum range regardless of road speed ( drive axle ratio is also a critical factor ).

After the race, Senna assessed his new car's performance: " I had small problems with the gearbox, and the car balance was not optimum, so it was very difficult to drive.

The drive firmware enabled it to dynamically re-order commands and assign them to a specific read / write system for optimum execution time, and perform read-write-verify and read-exclusive or-write operations twice as fast as comparable single actuator systems.

The gearbox at the end of the tailboom provides an angled drive for the tail rotor and may also include gearing to adjust the output to the optimum rotational speed for the tail rotor, measured in rotations per minute ( RPM ).

An example is the re-derivation of Murray's law, which in conventional form determined the optimum diameter of blood vessels, to provide simple equations for the pipe or tube diameter which gives a minimum mass engineering system.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

The long-range objective of this Department is to provide and maintain a system of forest development roads and trails which will adequately service the National Forest System at the levels needed to meet expected needs and optimum production of products and services.

Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.

There is little evidence that they are giving any systematic thought to a general theory of the optimum scope and nature of their part in government.

Apparently academic challenge in the structured setting creates an optimum of stress so that the child with high anxiety is able to achieve because he is aroused to an energetic state without becoming confused or panicked.

Thus, the function of antioxidant systems is not to remove oxidants entirely, but instead to keep them at an optimum level.

There is an optimum weight for bolts to achieve maximum kinetic energy, which varies depending on the strength and characteristics of the crossbow, but most could pass through common chain mail.

It is adapted to provide an optimum environment for the implantation and growth of the embryo.

His premise was that each repetition in learning increases the optimum interval before the next repetition is needed ( for near-perfect retention, initial repetitions may need to be made within days, but later they can be made after years ).

Therefore, to obtain optimum performance of the fuel cell, a high operating temperature is required.

This result is described as market efficiency, or more specifically a Pareto optimum.

It is not practical to use such a large hammer for all tasks, however, and thus the overall design has been modified repeatedly to achieve the optimum utility in a wide variety of situations.

The optimum temperature for lactase is about 77 ° F ( 25 ° C ) for its activity and has an optimum pH of 6.

The Nielsen ratings system is explicitly designed for the optimum measurement of audience viewership by dayparts with prime time being of most interest.

A stoichiometric amount or stoichiometric ratio of a reagent is the optimum amount or ratio where, assuming that the reaction proceeds to completion:

There is an optimum value of the peak magnetic field, about 7 T in this case.

If the field is increased past the optimum, further volume reductions are possible with minimal increase in cost.

Analysis shows the optimum staging velocity ( the speed at which the first stage is dropped ) is very high — possibly 3. 65 km / s ( 12, 000 feet per second ).

Modern testers shooting from rigid rests, using optimum loads and fast priming powder, report groups of circa five inches at 50 yards ( Cumpston 2008 ).

The parafovea is the intermediate belt, where the ganglion cell layer is composed of more than five rows of cells, as well as the highest density of cones ; the perifovea is the outermost region where the ganglion cell layer contains two to four rows of cells, and is where visual acuity is below the optimum.

The life-cycle is about five weeks at 30 ° C and 70 % RH ; optimum conditions for development are 27 − 31 ° C and more than 60 % RH ; below 17 ° C development ceases.