Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suppose, that she couldn't get Johann Bach to waltz, either. Moreover, any self-respecting mystery buff can tell you that a "mashie-niblick," that jolly skull-splitter, is a five-iron; Bloomfield ludicrously brandishes a driver. All this may sound like nit-picking, but these errors are a fraction of those actually committed, and they all add up to a general impression of carelessness...
Early computer projections had said leftist forces would score a fraction over 50 percent of the vote, less than pre-election polls had predicted they would receive...
...Neurosurgery, they drill a small hole in the patient's skull and insert a piston so that its base rests on the brain's outer casing. Built into the piston is a miniature induction tuner. If pressure inside the cranium increases, it pushes the piston up a fraction of an inch, thus transmitting a signal to the telemetry receiver at the patient's bedside...
...same time at Texas Instruments-the question of priority is still widely debated in the industry-were the natural culmination of a revolution in electronics that began in 1948 with Bell Telephone Laboratories' announcement of the transistor. Small, extremely reliable, and capable of operating with only a fraction of the electricity needed by the vacuum tube, the "solid-state" device proved ideal for making not only inexpensive portable radios and tape recorders but computers as well. Indeed, without the transistor, the computer might never have advanced much beyond the bulky and fickle ENIAC, which was burdened with thousands...
...generation of small, desk-size minicomputers as well as larger, high-speed machines. Their speed resided in the rate at which electric current races through wire: about one foot per billionth of a second, close to the velocity of light. Even so, an electrical pulse required a significant fraction of a second to move through the miles of wiring in the early, large computers. Now even circuitous routes through IC chips could be measured in inches-and traversed by signals in an electronic blink. Computers with ICs not only were faster but were in a sense much smarter. Crammed with...