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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Quant firms react in milliseconds.—Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025 Previous techniques relied on laser pulses lasting milliseconds.—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025 The 100-Tesla field, which is about 2 million times as strong as Earth’s magnetic field, can be turned on for 15 milliseconds just once an hour.—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025 The former will, before a collision, pull passengers back into the best position to absorb the impact of a crash by tightening the belt, while the latter — which activates milliseconds after a collision occurs — allows the seat belt to gently unspool to relieve the force on that person’s chest.—Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for millisecond
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