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As Traders Magazine notes, even a 200-microsecond delay—caused simply by the physical distance between venues—can determine who executes first and who suffers slippage and adverse selection in fast-moving markets.
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Ashok Reddy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
But unlike neutrons, which decay in about 10 minutes, muons vanish within microseconds.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
The improvement might seem minor—the new prototype can store energy for microseconds instead of nanoseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2025
In 2005, an earthquake in Indonesia shifted the Earth’s polar mass about one inch toward the east, decreasing the length of a day by 2.68 microseconds—or millionths of a second.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2025
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Ashok Reddy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
But unlike neutrons, which decay in about 10 minutes, muons vanish within microseconds.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
The improvement might seem minor—the new prototype can store energy for microseconds instead of nanoseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2025
In 2005, an earthquake in Indonesia shifted the Earth’s polar mass about one inch toward the east, decreasing the length of a day by 2.68 microseconds—or millionths of a second.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2025
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“Microsecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microsecond. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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microsecond
noun
mi·cro·sec·ond
ˌmī-krō-ˈsek-ənd 
-ənt
: one millionth of a second
Medical Definition
microsecond
noun
mi·cro·sec·ond
ˈmī-krō-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt
: one millionth of a second
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