millisecond

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mil·li·sec·ond | \ ˈmi-lə-ˌse-kənd

, -kənt \

Definition of millisecond

: one thousandth of a second

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Recent Examples on the Web The device, called gammaCore, sends a series of vibrating bursts of low-voltage electricity, each lasting a millisecond, to the side of the neck. — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 10 June 2021 The team hopes to stretch the front of the boom wave from a single millisecond out to twenty or thirty. — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021 Your best chance of getting one at a sane price is by beating scalper bots (and hordes of other desperate gamers) to the checkout page the millisecond these GPUs drop. — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 1 June 2021 Why would a position held for a millisecond during a sprint of a dance matter? — New York Times, 11 May 2021 Cell towers emit them about every millisecond to help cellphones detect how strong or weak their connections are. — Marco Quiroz-gutierrez, WSJ, 25 May 2021 Today information floods over us, and a millisecond later in comes another flood of data and information, and then another and another. — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2010 That eddy of stone could be the flash-frozen millisecond of an explosion or the swirl of ancient galactic rubble adrift across ages. — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021 Satellite networks could represent the next technological leap forward for a business where every millisecond counts. — WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021

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