as in minutes
a very small space of time
a nanosecond was about all that it took her to accept his marriage proposal
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Recent Examples of nanoseconds
The winners will measure their edge in nanoseconds and act before others can react.
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Ashok Reddy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The project team led by researcher Chang Jun from CETC’s Southwest China Institute of Electronic Technology highlighted that hypersonic cooperative strike systems demand inter-platform time synchronization with accuracy better than 10 nanoseconds.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2025
The improvement might seem minor—the new prototype can store energy for microseconds instead of nanoseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2025
Ashok Reddy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The project team led by researcher Chang Jun from CETC’s Southwest China Institute of Electronic Technology highlighted that hypersonic cooperative strike systems demand inter-platform time synchronization with accuracy better than 10 nanoseconds.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2025
The improvement might seem minor—the new prototype can store energy for microseconds instead of nanoseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nanoseconds
Noun
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All 15 episodes, about 50 minutes each, are streaming.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Bonneville, sitting behind her, grabbed her hand for the last 15 minutes and didn’t let go.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Hold each other’s hands and inhale slowly for 4 seconds, hold for 7 and exhale for 8 seconds together.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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This should have created a GRB lasting mere seconds, however.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities.—
American Booksellers Association,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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And sleep-tracker rings that are worn on your finger use body temperature, body movement, heart rate, and heart rate variability (fluctuations in the time between heartbeats) to gauge sleep quality.—
Stacey Colino,
Time,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As with any career as long as his, there have been moments when perhaps his aesthetic wasn’t so aligned with where fashion was going, but mention that and Roversi will gently put it to one side.—
Mark Holgate,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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So, to observe them, astronomers rely on stellar occultations — moments when an object passes between them and a background star.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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