If my math is right, 60 seconds is one-sixtieth of an hour, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » New Math] Reference
A single frame in a movie is on the screen for one-sixtieth of a second. From Wordnik.com. [Fight Club]
Sensory nonconceptual cognition occurs for only one-sixtieth of a second. From Wordnik.com. [Making Sense of Tantra ��� 7 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Tantra] Reference
Deposit, especially warehousing of grain, was charged for at one-sixtieth. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
The average email has just one-sixtieth the footprint of a letter, according to a back-of-the-envelope comparison. From Wordnik.com. [What's the carbon footprint of ... email?] Reference
MaxKohanzad · March 31st, 2007 at 4:19 pm i thought the one-sixtieth rule only applied to accidental addition of treif?. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Drink Unhechshered Wine | Jewschool] Reference
On the surface of the earth, at the equator, each side of this polygon would be one-sixtieth of a geographical mile, or 101.46 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference
The one closest to them gives about one-sixtieth of our moonlight, and the outer one about one twelve-hundredth, so you see that's not much. From Wordnik.com. [Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record] Reference
The room came dramatically to life for one-sixtieth of a second and then faded back into darkness, her eyes blinded by a dissipating red glow. From Wordnik.com. [Camera Obscura] Reference
He who visits the sick takes away one-sixtieth part of their pain. From Wordnik.com. [Hebrew Literature] Reference
Warehousing, 120-126. fee for, one-sixtieth value, 121. liability for loss in warehouse, 125. From Wordnik.com. [Old Laws Blog] Reference
In terms of one pizza, the amount stands at about one-sixtieth of its acceptable daily intake. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion] Reference
It's especially likely with a camera that samples only one-sixtieth of a second of the celebration. From Wordnik.com. [HappyNews - Top Stories] Reference
At that age he is entitled to one-sixtieth of his salary for every year he has served up to forty years. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Anthony Trollope] Reference
Tackling nearly 100 percent of today's malaria problem would cost just one-sixtieth of the price of the Kyoto Protocol. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Star > News Feed] Reference
Under the scribes, minute legislation fixed one-sixtieth as the portion of a field which was to be left for the legal "corner.". From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Very good; it happens then that a horse which wins a race by one foot is about one-sixtieth of a second faster, than the beaten animal. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference
They say the planet, which orbits at one-sixtieth the distance from the Earth to the Sun, has had much of its mass boiled away by the star's heat. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Under it Nova Scotia alone had as many drilled militia-men as we have in the whole of Canada today, at one-sixtieth of our last year's expenditure. From Wordnik.com. [A Weak Link in the Imperial Chain] Reference
The geographical or nautical mile (one-sixtieth of a degree of the equator, and equal to 1.153 English statute miles) is used by mariners of all nations. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
After ten years service they are entitled to a pension of twenty-sixtieths of their pay, with an increase of one-sixtieth for each further year of service. From Wordnik.com. [Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View] Reference
Professor Young's estimate is that Phobos may shed upon Mars one-sixtieth and Deimos one-twelve-hundredth as much reflected moonlight as our moon sends to the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries] Reference
If his health do fail him so that he is unfit for further work before the age named, then he may go with a pension amounting to one-sixtieth for every year he has served. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Anthony Trollope] Reference
As in the case of the raw fruits, no quantity was determined; Ezechiel affirms that it was one-sixtieth of the harvest for wheat and barley and one-one hundredth for oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
With a faint light the interval may be as great as one-tenth of a second; with a strong light it must not exceed one-thirtieth (or with still stronger light, one-sixtieth) of a second. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
The box, which Petra calls a Smart Energy Module, is designed to regulate voltage autonomously and to act in intervals of less than one-sixtieth of a second in response to local conditions. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
But what if the light was too low, or you moved the camera during the shot, or your subject had her eyes closed during the one-sixtieth of a second that your camera actually sampled the scene?. From Wordnik.com. [HappyNews - Top Stories] Reference
A little less than one-sixtieth of the population. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
As a punishment I decree that thou mayest keep but one-sixtieth of thy light. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1] Reference
Colonies ", the area of which covers somewhat less than one-third of the whole surface of the republic, while its population is only one-sixtieth of the whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
1604 the office of councillor became a hereditary property on payment to the court of one-sixtieth of its value. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paris] Reference
(De 14: 28, offerings -- the first-fruits, not less than one-sixtieth part of the corn, wine, and oil (De 18: 4; Ne 13: 10, 12). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Result, under-exposure, at one-sixtieth. From Wordnik.com. [Pictorial Photography in America 1921] Reference
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