The camera is able to record its subject to an accuracy of one millimetre.
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It comprises 66 giant radio telescopes destined to observe the sky in millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths.
For light, this is on the scale of tens of thousandths of a millimetre.
Even if features are asymmetrical by only a millimetre or two it can have a detectable effect.
Honda's Collision Mitigation Brake System (CMS), for example, uses a forward-looking millimetre-wave radar to scan the road ahead.
This is a formidable undertaking: the process involves laser-scanning the caves, creating millimetre-perfect fibreglass replicas, and then painstakingly repainting each fresco.
The capsules, also a tenth of a millimetre across, are filled with dark ink and particles of white paint.
It was within a millimetre of cutting his carotid artery which could have killed him, Exeter Crown Court heard.
Nearly 1200 prisoners and prison staff were searched using two millimetre wave scanners.
When they are whole, vaults look like barrels though they are only 35 by 65 millionths of a millimetre across.
He reached down under his greasy T-shirt and pulled out a nine-millimetre cartridge that was attached to a string around his neck.
Just a few millionths of a millimetre in size, the minute machine resembles a ring threaded on a rod.
They found that the mucus film was typically less than 35 nanometres thick (a nanometre is a millionth of a millimetre).
Like the oxygen ions in the traditional technique, these come to rest a few thousandths of a millimetre below the surface.
If fired at high enough speed, these ions will come to rest a few thousandths of a millimetre below a wafer's surface.
Now, the team has shrunk the product to the requisite thousandth of a millimetre across, which will easily fit on a chip.
They have painstakingly cut through a heart, millimetre by millimetre, to measure and model the arrangement of the muscle fibres in each slice.
Air bubbles between a hundredth and a thousandth of a millimetre across can reflect ultrasound thousands of times more effectively than flesh does.
Light passing through each microlens focuses at a point a few tenths of a millimetre beyond it, and thereafter spreads out as a cone.
Millimetre wave body scanners will be used in both Magilligan Prison and Hydebank Wood Young Offenders' Centre in a pilot project during the summer.
Working out whether this has been done satisfactorily is hard when the objects in question are a mere six thousandths of a millimetre in diameter.
Then a technique known as interferometry will be used to refine that value to a few microns (a micron is a thousandth of a millimetre).
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When the larva grows to around 300 microns (roughly one-third of a millimetre), it extends its foot and seeks a suitable surface on which to set.
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Dr Cao's group first solved the problem of using Anderson localisation to create a true laser last year, but the resulting devices were a millimetre across.
He must be quick: flies usually bite within 10 seconds of skin contact and despite their tiny size - less than a millimetre - they are ferocious.
Besides having unusual optical properties and being very small each is just one-twentieth of a millimetre in diameter the lenses have another trick of particular relevance to micro-optical systems.
When there are lots of nucleation centres around, the small drops end up even smaller than usual (ten thousandths of a millimetre, or microns, across, instead of 50 microns).
But it was concentrated onto a speck a little more than one thousandth of a millimetre across and it lasted for just 30 femtoseconds (30 million billionths of a second).
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