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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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For example, on the latency front, Ookla’s data found that SpaceX has been successfully driving down the rate to 45 milliseconds, an improvement from 70ms in Q1 2023, which is also drastically better than rival satellite internet service Hughesnet.
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Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 June 2025
Jitter should typically be two milliseconds (ms) or less.
—David Brinkerhoff, USA Today, 11 June 2025
In isolated test devices, IBM has managed to push average coherence times to 2 milliseconds but translating that to larger chips is not straightforward.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2025
Using isolated test devices, IBM has determined that coherence is running between one to two milliseconds, and up to four milliseconds in some cases.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
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Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 June 2025
Jitter should typically be two milliseconds (ms) or less.
—David Brinkerhoff, USA Today, 11 June 2025
In isolated test devices, IBM has managed to push average coherence times to 2 milliseconds but translating that to larger chips is not straightforward.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2025
Using isolated test devices, IBM has determined that coherence is running between one to two milliseconds, and up to four milliseconds in some cases.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
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“Millisecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millisecond. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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millisecond
noun
mil·li·sec·ond
ˈmil-ə-ˌsek-ənd 
also -ənt
: one thousandth of a second
Medical Definition
millisecond
noun
mil·li·sec·ond
ˈmil-ə-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt
: one thousandth of a second
—abbreviation ms, msec
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