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.
Examples of millisecond in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThat’s actually over a millisecond faster than the U8N (7.4ms), though neither TV can reach the sub-millisecond latency of much more expensive OLED TVs like the LG Evo G4.—PCMAG, 30 May 2024 An intrusion directed from the other side of the world can be executed in milliseconds, almost invisibly.—Marietje Schaake, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020 Ask a question verbally, and the system can reply with an audio response in milliseconds, according to the company, allowing for a more fluid conversation.—Rachel Metz, Fortune, 13 May 2024 All this in the blink of an eye—which, incidentally, also takes about 150 milliseconds.—Jeremy White, WIRED, 9 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for millisecond
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