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A millisecond isn't long enough for the blink of an eye, but a few milliseconds may determine the winner of a swim race or a hundred-yard dash. With the ever-increasing speed of modern technology, even a millisecond has started to seem a little sluggish; computer operations are now measured in nanoseconds—that is, billionths of a second.
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Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2024
Theoretical speeds go beyond 10 Gbps with 1 millisecond of latency, but real-world performance around 1 Gbps is more common.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2024
High-energy muons traveling at near–light-speed endure longer, for milliseconds, because of the time dilation predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
On June 29, 2022, Earth rotated 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours, the fastest rotation that scientists had ever previously recorded, according to TimeAndDate.com.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
But the somatosensory cortex often reacted within 20 milliseconds.
—Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
The implosion is thought to have been near instantaneous and occurred in less than 40 milliseconds, according to the Associated Press.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
In less than a millisecond the vapor recondenses and the chamber cools and refills with ink, returning the nozzle to the resting state.
—Phillip W. Barth, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2024
Every millisecond of light represented the work of the plant’s metabolism, which Sarkisyan and a team of other scientists had hooked up to genes from a glowing fungus.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
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“Millisecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millisecond. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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