fine structure
noun
: microscopic structure of a biological entity or one of its parts especially as studied in preparations for the electron microscope
fine structural
adjective
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While data from the Keck telescope indicate the fine structure constant was once smaller, the data from the Very Large Telescope indicates the opposite, that the fine structure constant was once larger.
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Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
The extra pressure on the dark matter from the quantum effect also inhibits fine structures in dark matter, resulting in a fuzzy appearance.
—Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
Structural frames inspired by the fine structure of bird bones could create lightweight lattices of tubes, with varying sizes reflecting the forces acting upon them.
—James Rose, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2023
Eventually the process creates an ice sheet with a fine structure that has thin needles of ice going all the way down through the sheet.
—Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
The new fine structure goes into effect today.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2021
There’s a strong family resemblance, though, between the two models, both of which have a rounded, toastlike flavor and a fine structure that stands in opposition to the dry, starchy, gratuitously sweet whole-wheat pizza crusts that blighted college towns across the country in the 1970s and ’80s.
—New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021
The fine structure constant is a scalar field.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2010
Through observations of galaxies that lie 12 billion light-years roughly to the north with those at the same distance lying to the south, the team discovered variations in the fine structure constant amounting to about 1 part in 100,000.
—Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2011
Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
The extra pressure on the dark matter from the quantum effect also inhibits fine structures in dark matter, resulting in a fuzzy appearance.
—Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
Structural frames inspired by the fine structure of bird bones could create lightweight lattices of tubes, with varying sizes reflecting the forces acting upon them.
—James Rose, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2023
Eventually the process creates an ice sheet with a fine structure that has thin needles of ice going all the way down through the sheet.
—Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
The new fine structure goes into effect today.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2021
There’s a strong family resemblance, though, between the two models, both of which have a rounded, toastlike flavor and a fine structure that stands in opposition to the dry, starchy, gratuitously sweet whole-wheat pizza crusts that blighted college towns across the country in the 1970s and ’80s.
—New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021
The fine structure constant is a scalar field.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2010
Through observations of galaxies that lie 12 billion light-years roughly to the north with those at the same distance lying to the south, the team discovered variations in the fine structure constant amounting to about 1 part in 100,000.
—Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2011
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