nanoseconds

plural of nanosecond

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of nanoseconds China is only six months behind—or four, or nine, or perhaps mere nanoseconds. — Chang Che, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026 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 Such as approach had its own speed limits – at the slowest, nanoseconds (billionths) and at the fastest, picoseconds (trillionths). — New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026 Xona expects its satellites to eventually deliver a timing reference accurate to within 10 nanoseconds. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 16 July 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nanoseconds
Noun
  • Slemmer was beaten and cut with a meat cleaver and a box cutter for somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • According to Rubin, online criticisms against the store emerged 15 minutes after Clarkson left the store.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The fastest breakout was 27 seconds, and one intrusion reached full data exfiltration in four minutes.
    — Asaf Wiener, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Mahomes spent roughly a dozen seconds venting about a topic neither of them want to detail now, before Eric Bieniemy nodded his head.
    — Sam McDowell October 16, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Poetic structure, such as cadence, meter and rhyme, invokes rhythms that tie into human heartbeats and breathing.
    — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Gabe wears a bracelet containing some of her final heartbeats and her fingerprint.
    — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • These are but moments in an auteur’s widescreen epic that never sits still.
    — Ben Cardew, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Canada banged awkwardly into Williams’ knee on a box out during her late free throws and the Valkyries’ star was being cared for by an athletic trainer on the bench in the waning moments.
    — Janie McCauley, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026

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“Nanoseconds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nanoseconds. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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