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Перевод: pinhead
[существительное] булавочная головка; мелочь ; дурак ; тупица [сл.]
Тезаурус:
- The pre-season dispute over which contest - the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown - would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead.
- Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest.
- Use morning and/or night and dot a pinhead amount underneath and around the outside edge.
- Like a pinhead dragon, with its tender moustache,
- WHAT do the following have in common: a machine that can write the Bible on a pinhead; a single-lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times; a barometer that measures the difference in atmospheric pressure across the thickness of a book; a 15-cm (6-inch) telescope that fits into a jacket pocket; and the first bicycle crossing of the uninhabited central region of Iceland?
- It triggered an image of a diver shooting to the surface with a pinhead of breath, his arm like Excalibur.
- White Spot Icthyopthyirius multifiliis is less common in ponds than in aquaria, but once the parasite is encysted in the familiar pinhead "Ich" spot the fish is headed for death unless treated.
- One species that has done this is Volvox, a hollow sphere, almost the size of a pinhead, constructed from a large number of cells, each with a flagellum.
- A piece of this material, neutronium, the size of a pinhead might weigh a billion tonnes or more (depending upon the size of the pinhead!).
- Dall has produced writing to the staggering scale of 250 bibles to the square inch, small enough to write one bible on a pinhead, but the individual letters on that scale are so minute, no higher than a micrometre (one or two wavelengths of visible light), that they are at the limit of resolution of optical microscopes.
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