Definition of millisecond
:one thousandth of a second
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Somehow, Gendry managed to sprint back and send a raven, then Daenerys had time to hop on Drogon and fly north and still have a few milliseconds to spare before the men were toast.
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The human brain, with enough practice, can see a pitcher throw a ball and judge within milliseconds how hard and where that pitch is going.
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Online, milliseconds matter – hundreds of seconds are effectively an eternity.
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There was probably more to it than simply trying to pull a pitch and waiting a millisecond too long to make contact, but Jones insisted that his leadoff home run onto the flag court in the first inning was purely by accident.
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The system now can decouple the rear axle differential and, with the miracle of electromechanics, will re-engage all-wheel-drive traction in less than 250 milliseconds, a task that once took two whole seconds.
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Every scene races by in milliseconds that, paradoxically enough, seem to last for eons.
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When Danny Espinosa beat out a subsequent double-play ball by a millisecond, the Angels had their first run.
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In a car accident, the point at which maneuvers by either car will be insufficient to avoid the collision happen in milliseconds before impact, but that point is reached in the tens of seconds or more before impact between ships.
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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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