This small pore size was required to ensure uniformity of the flow leaving the anode.

Very small particles, however, in a size range of 1 to 4 microns in diameter are capable of passing these impinging barriers and entering the alveolar bed of the lungs.

In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.

Naturally, enterprises of the size of General Electric are in a position to structure their prices in such a way that the relatively small competitors can be forced to the wall in a very short time.

) He was the first astronaut on the moon, chosen because of his small size and intrepid nature.

The electron is by far the least massive of these particles at, with a negative electrical charge and a size that is too small to be measured using available techniques.

Armenia is the second most densely populated of the former Soviet republics because of its small size.

Big business is not taxed in proportion to its capacity and output, and the disproportionate burden falls on small and medium size businesses.

Its brain was small and comparable in size to that of the modern chimpanzee.

Abalones reach maturity at a relatively small size.

However, tyrannosaurid forelimbs were extremely small for their body size and retained only two digits.

Spiders, for instance, being relatively small, don ’ t fit the usual criterion for a threat in the animal kingdom where size is a factor, but nearly all species are venomous, and although rarely dangerous to humans, some species are dangerous.

The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and like that intended for portability and ease of reading.

Strings whose Kolmogorov complexity is small relative to the string's size are not considered to be complex.

he ordered the construction of a small fleet, perhaps a dozen or so longships, that, at 60 oars, were twice the size of Viking warships.

Note that the 64x16 TRS-80 mode screen uses only a small part of the monitor screen, because the letters are the same size as the 80 × 25 CP / M screen, this was one of the things that was soon after fixed with the redesign to a commercial product

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

Only pitifully small pieces of land are gained, about the size of a football field, which are often lost again later.

Devices that integrate ( multiple ) laboratory functions on a single chip of only millimeters to a few square centimeters in size and that are capable of handling extremely small fluid volumes down to less than pico liters.

That is why all packets, or " cells ," should have the same small size.

When the CCITT ( now ITU-T ) was standardizing ATM, parties from the United States wanted a 64-byte payload because this was felt to be a good compromise in larger payloads optimized for data transmission and shorter payloads optimized for real-time applications like voice ; parties from Europe wanted 32-byte payloads because the small size ( and therefore short transmission times ) simplify voice applications with respect to echo cancellation.

Alcopops tend to be sweet and served in small bottles ( typically 330 ml in Europe and 355 ml, the normal size of a soda pop can, in North America ), and between 4 % and 7 % alcohol by volume.

Some even depict it as a horned, dragon-like creature with a serpent-headed tail and small, round ears, while others have both " necks " of equal size so that it cannot be determined which is the rear head.

The small size of the missile forebody and the K-band AN / APQ-64-radar limited performance, and it was never able to work in testing.

These animals were, in fact, descendants of the small ancestral ungulates that retained all the primitive characteristics of the latter, accompanied by a huge increase in body size.

By connecting a small dish & receiver, a constant downstream of thousands of FidoNet and Usenet newsgroups could be received.

This was said to be of great benefit in Usenet news spools, HTTP caches, mail delivery systems and other applications where performance with small files is critical.

By the third issue in the fall of 1993 the " Net Surf " column began listing interesting FTP sites, Usenet newsgroups, and email addresses, at a time when the numbers of these things were small and this information was still extremely novel to the public.

Because the index files were so small, they minimized the amount of extra data that had to be downloaded from Usenet to verify that the data files were all present and undamaged, or to determine how many parity volumes were required to repair any damage or reconstruct any missing files.

Leafnode is a store-and-forward NNTP ( or Usenet ) proxy server designed for small sites with just a few active newsgroups, but very easy to set up and maintain, when compared to INN.

An X-Face is a small bitmap ( 48 × 48 pixels, black and white ) image which is added to a Usenet posting or e-mail message, typically showing a picture of the author's face.

Since the early 1990s most Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) have provided a free small personal, user-created page along with free Usenet News service.

Matsuo took the small knife from its scabbard and laid it on the ground, out of the marine's reach and away from their shadows.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.

Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.

Kiwanis, American Legion and other groups donate small sums and the mothers do what they can to bring in dollars for its support.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Each SBA regional office also maintains a `` want '' list of surplus property, principally machinery and equipment, desired by small business concerns in its area.

A small business is defined as one which is independently owned and operated and which is not dominant in its field.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.

Union soldiers at times used it for sleeping quarters to escape from the rain or other inclement weather, and some of them left momentoes of their stay by carving their names and small tokens on its walls and beams.

For mounting to corrugated plastic backgrounds, very small holes may be drilled in the sides of the letters and stainless steel wire threaded through the openings, its ends twisted behind the panels.

The firm red spleen weighed 410 gm., and its surface was mottled by discrete, small patches of white material.

The small and large intestines were filled with gas, and the jejunum was dilated to about 2 times its normal circumference.

Each source selected from its approved bidders list about 200 firms which it believed to be small businesses that participated in the production of weapons and weapon support systems.

By its nature it has always been of great psychological advantage and small efforts have required considerably greater counter-efforts.

There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.

The police car had pulled up behind a small sedan, its headlights still on.

The small helicopter with its two steel skids churned offshore and Nick raised up to watch it heading south.

A small library may cherish its independence and established ways, and resist joining in a cooperative movement that sometimes seems radical to older members of the board.

Highly successful in England before its transfer to New York, most of `` Roots '' is as relentlessly dour as the trappings of the small new theater are gaudy.

The garden below was lacy with dew and enchanting in its small wildness.

" At its worst, Scheler says, " love for the small, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed is really disguised hatred, repressed envy, an impulse to detract, etc., directed against the opposite phenomena: wealth, strength, power, largesse.

And its complete meaning was taken as: counting with small similar elements by somebody.