MICROSECONDS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

microseconds

noun

plural of microsecond

as in nanoseconds

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Noun

Instead, the past week has been spent relitigating the final nanoseconds of the Wolverines’ 13-12 victory against Western Michigan.

— Austin Meek, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Round-trip latency could fall from the microsecond range to several hundred nanoseconds, representing a reduction of up to an order of magnitude.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of nanoseconds

Noun

The ambulance arrived 27 minutes and 30 seconds into the incident.

— Brian Maass, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Like the Series 12, the Ultra 4 can measure your heart rate every five seconds and checks heart rate variability (HRV) 24 times more often than the previous generations.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of seconds

Noun

Italian department store La Rinascente is 15-minutes away on foot, and cosmopolitan Monti, with its bars and shops, is a 10-minute walk away.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
Thirty minutes later, after a physician examined him, he was pronounced dead and covered with a white sheet.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of minutes

Noun

These days, the shows are bigger and the tickets sell out in instants, filling theaters around the country with concertgoers whose response to Geese’s music can best be described as rabid ecstasy.

— Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026
Recent instants, according to the company, will be saved in an archive that's private and only accessible to the user who takes it.

— Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 13 May 2026

Definition of instants

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Others include Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s light and sound installation Pulse Topology (2021), installed in 2023, in which visitors’ heartbeats inform the pulse of lights hanging overhead.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Simpson was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a rare heart condition that can cause irregular heartbeats and sudden cardiac death in seemingly healthy individuals, per John Hopkins Medicine.

— Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of heartbeats

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