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meter

[mee-ter] / ˈmi tər /


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These little red dots emit much of their light at wavelengths longer than a 10 millionth of a meter, in the mid-infrared.

From Science Daily

"When sargassum piles are higher -- some can be over a meter high on South Florida beaches in the summer and extend for hundreds of meters down the beach -- we can expect more failed attempts, particularly when hatchlings have to cross multiple bands of seaweed just to reach the ocean."

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Even so, the planet's close distance to Earth makes it a strong candidate for direct imaging using the University of California's Thirty Meter Telescope, which is currently under development.

From Science Daily

Beard and Robertson hope their findings will encourage the exoplanet research community to conduct additional studies of GJ 251 c, especially as new ground-based observatories such as the Thirty Meter Telescope move closer to operational status.

From Science Daily

Meter readers fell as utilities digitized.

From The Wall Street Journal