microsecond

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Recent Examples of microsecond When the outage started on Wednesday, some of NIST’s on-campus time distribution systems lapsed before the backup generator kicked in, causing a four-microsecond delay to the atomic clock, Jacobson said. Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2025 For example, 5G needs to be accurate to within a tenth of a microsecond. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 Dec. 2025 And if a hundred fish come out of the water, the AI snaps pictures of that hundred fish, identifies those fish, and puts that into the package in a microsecond. Dan Morrison, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025 As Traders Magazine notes, even a 200-microsecond delay—caused simply by the physical distance between venues—can determine who executes first and who suffers slippage and adverse selection in fast-moving markets. Ashok Reddy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for microsecond
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microsecond
Noun
  • And in this sport, every nanosecond makes a difference.
    Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • The new prototype, still very far from being practical, took femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) to charge and stored the energy for nanoseconds.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Vegas pulled Carter Hart with about three minutes to go, officially entering desperation mode, but nothing worked, and Nikolaj Ehlers scored an empty-netter to start the party.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • The administration filed a last-minute request to stay the judge's injunction pending their appeal, but it was ultimately rejected.
    Emma Nicholson, CBS News, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Only seconds after taking the pitch, Romelu Lukaku made a run to the front of the net, as his teammate sent in a pass.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 16 June 2026
  • This is the least eventful task, since taking a single photo only requires a few seconds.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Their ruminative hush sets them apart in an era of instant-gratification drops.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
  • In an instant – or rather, through a grueling, ugly, then gritty, then triumphant Game 5 – that temporal distance is temporarily undone.
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
Noun
  • Lucy had tubes all over her body, and a nurse was trying to establish a heartbeat.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 9 June 2026
  • This is the most fearsome repertoire in all of pop music, and Nilles supplied its heartbeat and muscle, and most of its nuance.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Then, in a split second at just 14 years old, everything changed.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
  • In a split second, an executive in New York can be on a call with another leader in Singapore.
    Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Braking in corners, over elevation changes, or when crossing irregularities has little effect on your direction of travel, and your rate of travel can be halved or eliminated in a trice.
    Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
  • In a trice, he’s done one, two, eight, and 10.
    James Vincent, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2023

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“Microsecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microsecond. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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