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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.
Examples of millisecond in a Sentence
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
In less than a millisecond the vapor recondenses and the chamber cools and refills with ink, returning the nozzle to the resting state.
—Phillip W. Barth, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2024
Every millisecond of light represented the work of the plant’s metabolism, which Sarkisyan and a team of other scientists had hooked up to genes from a glowing fungus.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
Typically this happens within about a meter, or around one millisecond.
—Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
Compared with the participants assigned a set goal in the first experiment, the participants assigned increasingly more difficult goals in the second experiment had faster reaction times by an average of 45 milliseconds – about a 10% improvement.
—Matthew Robison, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
The researchers report measured relaxation times for valley states in excess of 500 milliseconds, presenting promising coherence properties for future valley qubits.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
His solution aligned computers to within tens of milliseconds.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024
When each pixel during the scanning process was given 5 milliseconds to collect photons, the new de-noising algorithm reduced the root mean square error—a measure of its deviation from a perfect image—of reconstructed images by about eightfold.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2024
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“Millisecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millisecond. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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