More recently, though, physicists have suggested that quarks and everything else are made of far tinier objects: superstrings vibrating in 10 dimensions.

The airplane in question is a 29-pound propeller-driven pixie, with a 10-foot wing span and a gas-powered engine that is far tinier than the average car's.

I.B.M. scientists have for the first time created a vast assembly of transistors using a new material only a few molecules wide, taking a significant step toward computers far tinier and more powerful than those used today.

The technology has also advanced in that it can analyze far tinier quantities of biological evidence, even saliva from a cigarette butt or envelope flap and sweat from a hatband, said Terry Laber, supervisor of the DNA unit of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

The Mouser noted that the other's black boots had far tinier soles than his own and were of soft leather both below and above the big ankle-bend.

Long-term exposure to the smallest particles of air pollution, far tinier than those that smear urban windowpanes, increases the chance of dying from lung cancer, researchers reported, after an analysis of 16 years of data on 500,000 city dwellers' confirmed a long-suspected link.

To her surprise, it wasn't much bigger than her own fie, small place had been, and it was far tinier than the abe condo in Winter Park.

D1 BUSINESS DAY C1-14 I.B.M.'s Tiniest Transistors I.B.M. scientists have created a vast assembly of transistors using a new material only a few molecules wide, taking a significant step toward computers far tinier and more powerful than those used today.

(1970), in which Dr. Seuss's good-hearted elephant protects far tinier life forms.

This technique has long promised remarkably fine resolution, giving chip makers the ability to create microscopic electronic circuits far tinier than is possible with present methods.