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Meanings of minute of arc in inglés
Angle unit.
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Examples for "minute"
1
Collecting data every minute is certainly excessive; every 10 minutes should do.
2
It had cost the State of Washington several million dollars a minute.
3
Teams get a penalty point per goal conceded past the 90-minute mark.
4
But seriously, Miss Carver,' he added, 'forget the deal for a minute.
5
That's one step out of a four minute 40 second free skate.
1
He found moa eggs, necklaces, a sperm whale tooth and human remains.
2
He said museum curators had also asked TradeMe to stop selling moa remains.
3
The authors applied this approach to each of the nine species of moa.
4
Large flightless ducks called moa-nalo were once the main herbivores on the islands.
5
This means that the moa has not been extinct very long.
1
The minimum widths were about 1.1 arcmin in dark pigmented eyes and 1.6 arcmin in light pigmented eyes.
2
The dwarf planet Pluto was a dim 14th-mag telescopic object when it crept only 3 arcmin S of Pi on 26 June.
1
In the case of the eye (with visible) light, this means that humans can resolve objects with an angular size of about 1 arcminute.
2
The image is 5 arcminutes across.
3
Each degree can be broken into 60 arcminutes and each minute is 60 arcseconds.
Usage of minute of arc in inglés
1
The true meridian can thus be found within one minute of arc:
2
Helmholtz has defined the minimum angle measurable with the naked eye as being one minute of arc.
3
The human eye can't resolve any object that subtends less than three minutes of arc.
4
We've lost about two minutes of arc.
5
This has an aperture of five inches, a power of thirty diameters, and a field of view of seventy-eight minutes of arc.
6
That is to say, reduced to modern terminology, he places the limit of the sun's apparent size between thirty-three minutes and twenty-seven minutes of arc.