Synonyms of nanoseconds

nanoseconds

noun

plural of nanosecond

as in minutes

a very small space of time

a nanosecond was about all that it took her to accept his marriage proposal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• minutes
• seconds
• heartbeats
• moments
• instants
• microseconds
• split seconds
• eyeblinks
• twinkles
• winks
• trices
• shakes
• twinklings
• flashes
• jiffies
• jiffs
• beats
• New York minutes
• snatches
• spurts

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ages
• aeons
• eternities
• lifetimes
• infinities
• forevers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of nanoseconds

Power pulses scale Pulsed-power systems briefly store electricity before releasing it in an intense burst lasting about 100 nanoseconds. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026

Xona expects its satellites to eventually deliver a timing reference accurate to within 10 nanoseconds. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026

The criticism died down only after shaving off nanoseconds became widespread, making the strategy less profitable. — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 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, 4 Apr. 2026

Atom Power’s digital breaker eliminates this risk, by cutting the power in nanoseconds or microseconds. — Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026

These shifting patterns subtly alter when the pulses arrive, introducing timing delays on the order of tens of nanoseconds, the statement says. — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2026

The kids got bored with it in nanoseconds, but word got out in the blue jay community that a peanut paradise had sprung up in our yard and to come on over! — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026

After running for 8 hours, the clock deviated only by 102 nanoseconds, approaching the standard of atomic clocks while both requiring less physical space and less power to run. — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025