What's the difference between distance and micrometer?

Distance


Definition:

  • (n.) The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.
  • (n.) Remoteness of place; a remote place.
  • (n.) A space marked out in the last part of a race course.
  • (n.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left.
  • (n.) Space between two antagonists in fencing.
  • (n.) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.
  • (n.) Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety.
  • (n.) Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.
  • (n.) The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
  • (n.) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.
  • (n.) Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.
  • (n.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh.
  • (v. t.) To place at a distance or remotely.
  • (v. t.) To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.
  • (v. t.) To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
  • (2) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
  • (3) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
  • (4) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
  • (5) Within the capillary-perfused mucosa and muscularis (between 50 and 2000 microns from the urothelial surface), concentrations decreased by 50% for each 500-microns distance.
  • (6) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
  • (7) The distance of nucleoid sedimentation increased as a function of exposure temperature and exposure time, and was proportional to an increased protein to DNA ratio in the nucleoids.
  • (8) The bond distances of Cu to Cl(1), Cl(2), N(3) and N(3') atoms are 2.299 (1), 2.267 (1), 1.985 (4) and 1.996 (3) A, respectively.
  • (9) The authors used a linear multivariate regression to evaluate the effects of distance from the highway, age and sex of the child, and housing condition.
  • (10) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
  • (11) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
  • (12) Long-distanced urethrocystopexy which permits to avoid an unwanted increase of outflow resistance with following retention of urine should be preferred.
  • (13) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.
  • (14) Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said people would see through her attempts to distance herself from Gove.
  • (15) Transplanted cells divided in vivo and progressively migrated into the host brain from the site of implantation up to distances of about 1 mm.
  • (16) Discrimination was possible among these four groups on the basis of the Mahalanobis' generalized distance.
  • (17) Extrapolating animal data to the neonates, we found the thoracic segment length recommended (the average of 29% of body length and electrode distance) to be accurate.
  • (18) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
  • (19) The duration of electrophoresis was based on the migration of a marker dye for a predetermined distance.
  • (20) Near acuity with distance correction was J2 or more in 93.1% of the bifocals and in 17.4% of the monofocals (without correction: 79.3% and 41.4%, respectively).

Micrometer


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ATP and deoxy-ATP, but not CTP, GTP, ITP, UTP, ADP, or cyclic AMP, promote Ca uptake; the KATP, is approximately 10 micrometer.
  • (2) At 5 micrometer and 2.5 mM sulphanilic acid under aerobic conditions, the regression lines for the permeation from lumen to blood pass almost through the origin, while the regression lines for the permeation from blood to lumen intersect the ordinate at a positive Y-value.
  • (3) The average length of the sarcomere in 5,34 micrometer for the non contracted muscle and 2,09 micrometer for the fully contracted muscle.
  • (4) Lipolysis stimulated by higher concentrations (0.3 and 3 micrometer) of NA was inhibited to a minor degree or not at all.
  • (5) The percentage inhibition of ATCase responds in a linear way to the logarithm of the concentration of PALA between 0.10 and 1.00 micrometer.
  • (6) To illustrate its potential for imaging ion currents through channels in membranes, a topographic image of a membrane filter with 0.80-micrometer pores and an image of the ion currents flowing through such pores are presented.
  • (7) Cortical lamination and parcellation of the anterogenual region in the human brain is studied in sections successively stained for nerve cells (15 micrometers), myelin sheaths (100 micrometers), and lipofuscin granules (800 micrometers).
  • (8) Under the same conditions the lowest thresholds for group Ib tendon organ afferents were about 40 micrometer.
  • (9) (d) It is shown that a high value of the cell-to-substrate gap may be accounted for by the presence of cell surface protrusions of a few micrometer length, in accordance with electron microscope observations performed on the same cell population.
  • (10) The bundle was confined to the medulla, and averaged 150-200 micrometer in width in the adult.
  • (11) This shows that there is an internal signal, but its range is short, only a few micrometers.
  • (12) In 17 pentobarbitalized dogs, the shunting of 15-micrometer and 9-micrometer microspheres was studied in the brain, myocardium, kidney, intestine, and lung.
  • (13) The plateau phase of Ca2+ was inhibited competitively by Mg2+ (0.5--50 mM) and non-competitively by Mn2+ (30 micrometer--1 mM), whereas the maximal contraction of Ca2+ was not inhibited by either ion.
  • (14) The intracellular distribution of ligandin and Z protein was studied by applying the peroxidase-antiperoxidase procedure of L. A. Sternberger (Immunocytochemistry, Prentice Hall Inc., 1974) to paraffin sections and free-floating 10-micrometers frozen sections that were processed for both light and electron microscopy.
  • (15) PVC particles in micrometer size range are very suitable as models to study persorbability in animals and the hematogenous dissemination of PVC particles.
  • (16) The mean thickness of epiphyseal plates form control rats was 430 micrometers (mum) which was reduced to 313 mum in hypoxic rats.
  • (17) These stones contained little cholesterol and exhibited a spongy microstructure characterized by small tubules with a diameter of 1 micrometer.
  • (18) Tracheobronchial deposition of inhaled particles in rabbit lung was studied after exposure to monodisperse aerosols 4--9 micrometer (aerodynamic diameter).
  • (19) Preliminary experiments have suggested that the swimmming speed of human sperm does not differ in flat capillary tubes of 200-micrometer and 400-micrometer depth.
  • (20) Type II neurons had multipolar or polygonal cell bodies, which measured an average 31 micrometer by 43 micrometer and emitted four to seven primary dendrites.