On Dec. 7, the company announced that Boost had signed up its one-millionth customer.

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In its earnings release, Apple promised to sell its one-millionth iPhone by the end of the current quarter.

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They did not merge with you, or give you any cell membranes or nutrients just an infinitesimally small packet of DNA, less than one-millionth of your mass.

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Such nanotechnology involves engineering carbon-based polymer molecules, one-millionth the size of a grain of sand, that attach to fibers to wick away moisture and resist stains, water and static.

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The end result was an array of 1, 024 squares, each two-thirds of a millimetre wide and made of up to 15 chemical layers, each just one five-millionth of a millimetre thick.

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By subtle, we mean about one-hundred-millionth of a degree.

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It can then release the light it absorbs in quick bursts that last a few femtoseconds each (with one femtosecond lasting one millionth of one billionth of a second), which is what ultrashort-pulse lasers do.

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Viewed from ten light-years away, the sun's side-to-side astrometric wobble due to the effect of the earth is just one millionth of an arcsecond, or a twentieth of the tiniest angle that the Keck will be able to measure.

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The sensors work by detecting extremely low-frequency electrical activity over a distance of 5 microns (one micron being equal to one millionth of a metre).

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