What is "fractionally"

Usage examples of "fractionally".

Fielding spoke with the sadness of the powerman who sees his constituency fractionally undermined.

Something had moved out of the trees and into the open ground by the aircar - something that made no sound, and that he could track only by watching Llannat shift position fractionally as she followed its progress.

Then with a casual flick of their broomsticks, the Cygnans altered course fractionally.

A dull vibration builds, and Dorrin spills steam, fractionally, until the engine returns to a stable rhythm, faster than before, but not what, he thinks, the engine might be capable of with work and time.

He wondered if any of them had taken the trouble to leave their dwellings and face the sky, in order to quicken -- fractionally -- the coming annihilation.

Air moving in from the opposite direction, from antispinward, will become fractionally heavier - -" Louis was groping with an improperly visualized picture.

But because they have mass -- because they move fractionally slower than the speed of light -- neutrinos oscillate between flavours as they fly.

He took one himself, replaced the case, absently picked up a box of matches lying in front of the nearest gunner and if he noticed the gunner's startled disbelief, the slow beginnings of a smile, the tired shoulders slumping fractionally in a long, soundless sigh of relief, he gave no sign.

Since the landscape just west of Weymouth is not particularly, or even fractionally, memorable, I took a taxi to Abbotsbury, and began my walk midway along Chesil Beach.

The mare's hoofs thudded on the planks of the bridge's center section, then clopped again on the stones on the far side, where Nylan headed down the fractionally wider street that seemed to lead toward a square a few hundred cubits westward.

With the door only fractionally open the suddenly deepened roar from the engines was startling but nowhere nearly as dismaying as the snow-laden gust of icy wind that whistled into the fuselage.

As a result, Connors' eyes were only fractionally slower than Dimitri's in finding the fresh datum on the big board, and her frown mirrored his own.

And when they came to the dead end near the garages, he slowed only fractionally as he bumped the car up first onto the pavement and then onto the grass.

And a magnetic monopole detector, orbiting the sun out of the plane of the ecliptic, had captured a trace of what looked to be a fractionally charged unconfined particle with a mass as big as a bacterium—.

Four loud, booming detonations, each fractionally following the other, hurled dust and splintered support timbers from the crypt's entrance tunnel into the main shaft.