Femto is a decimal prefix that denotes one quadrillionth. From Wordnik.com. [House Calls] Reference
So Quentin is bored and miserable except when he hides in his closet re-reading Fillory and Further for the quadrillionth time. From Wordnik.com. [The Magicians-Lev Grossman « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews] Reference
HARRIS: Nancy, according to police affidavit, there was semen found on her body that matched his DNA to the 100 and 240th quadrillionth. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2006] Reference
Towards the end of the game, around the time you've slaughtered your sixty quadrillionth Flood creature and passed through the same room eighty times, things do get vaguely interesting again and you experience an enjoyable jeep ride along the spine of an exploding starship. From Wordnik.com. [Halo: Combat Evolved] Reference
The reason was not narrow-mindedness, but incompatible technology: the length of the waves in the whole electromagnetic spectrum of light range from gamma rays that are the size of the nucleus of an atom, a quadrillionth of a meter, to radio waves measured in meters; as a result, the telescopes for each band of wavelengths must be wildly different. From Wordnik.com. [A Grand and Bold Thing] Reference
(One femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second). From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
The laser burst lasts less than a quadrillionth of a second. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The process takes a few tens of femtoseconds - about a quadrillionth of a second. From Wordnik.com. [Pocket-lint] Reference
Using the ALS's femtosecond (quadrillionth of a second) spectroscopy beamline 6.0.2. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
By it's fifth main installment (quadrillionth if we count all the spin-offs, etc), the storyline of any series is always pants. From Wordnik.com. [Cubed3.com News] Reference
A femtosecond is one of the smallest units of time ever devised, equal to one quadrillionth, or one millionth of a billionth of a second. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia News - Global] Reference
In fact, that transfer takes place in less than 50 femtoseconds (a femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second, or really, really, really fast). From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
But Pattinson was also not particularly eager to chat for the quadrillionth time about Edward Cullen, the tenderhearted vampire he reprises today in The. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
This seems like a far bigger ego-trip than a single hour of live TV, but Wade and Bosh haven't received one-quadrillionth of the criticism that James has had. From Wordnik.com. [TV Squad] Reference
The algae's different antenna colors allowed the chemists to pulse the specific proteins with femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second) bursts of laser light. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
Vaporizing a sample on a plate with the femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second) laser releases the molecules into the air, regardless of size or vapor pressure. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Changes in the electron cloud can happen on timescales of less than a femtosecond, or one quadrillionth of a second, representing some of the fastest processes in the natural world. From Wordnik.com. [Nano Tech Wire] Reference
LCLS's Atomic, Molecular and Optical Science instrument to study what effects femtosecond x-ray pulses (a femtosecond is 10-15 seconds, a quadrillionth of a second) had on a simple molecular system, nitrogen. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
To do this, the researchers simultaneously hit the sample with two femtosecond (quadrillionth of a second) titanium-sapphire laser pulses at an angle to each other, generating an interference pattern in the sample. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Yet this is given only at the quadrillionth, or fourth degree of potency, and various substances are frequently administered at the decillionth or tenth degree, and occasionally at still higher attenuations with professed medicinal results. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
(though to my thinking his watch must have long dissolved into its elements on the way), he cried out that those two seconds were worth walking not a quadrillion kilometres but a quadrillion of quadrillions, raised to the quadrillionth power!. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
When he finished this walk and saw the Heavenly City at the end of it he fell down and cried out, "It is worth it, every inch; not only would I walk a quadrillion of versts, but a quadrillion of quadrillions raised to the quadrillionth power.". From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Sketches] Reference
In this way the dilution of the original millionth of a grain of medicine contained in the grain of powder operated on is carried successively to the billionth, trillionth, quadrillionth, quintillionth, and very often much higher fractional divisions. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
I can't claim I never shrieked "It's the most important day of my life" and slapped a VISA card down on the counter for the quadrillionth time, but if there's anything the wedding industry and TLC is here to show us, it's that a girl can get carried away at the MOST IMPORTANT TIME OF HER LIFE. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Nebraska] Reference
The team's demonstration of attosecond absorption spectroscopy began by first ionizing krypton atoms, removing one or more outer valence electrons with pulses of near-infrared laser light that were typically measured on timescales of a few femtoseconds (a femtosecond is 10-15 second, a quadrillionth of a second). From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
A quadrillion of quadrillions, raised to the quadrillionth power!. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
The experiment was motivated by an interesting series of responses to a question she posted on the WRD asking about the prefix following femto -, one quadrillionth) and the discussion about linguistic origins of that term which followed. From Wordnik.com. [Gumption] Reference
"By hitting single molecules with quadrillionth-of-a-second laser pulses, scientists have revealed the quantum physics underlying photosynthesis, the process used by plants and bacteria to capture light's energy at efficiencies unapproached by human engineers. From Wordnik.com. [linkfilter.net - fresh links] Reference
0.8768 femtometers, (a femtometer equals one quadrillionth of a meter). From Wordnik.com. [Discover Blogs] Reference
12th "One million trillionth, or one quadrillionth, marked. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
1attogram-one quadrillionth of a gram. From Wordnik.com. [Infection Control Today News Only Feed] Reference
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