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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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Emilie Stigliani, Sacramento Bee, 3 July 2024
Annie Jacobsen So with a 1-megaton bomb on Washington, DC, what happens in the very first millisecond is that this thermonuclear flash expands into a ball of fire that is one mile of pure fire.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 23 June 2024
And then, in the next millisecond, something more pointed:
How the hell?
—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2024
But [when it is eaten] raw, the flavor lasts only for a millisecond, and then the heat is just taking off.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2023
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“Millisecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millisecond. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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