NANOSECONDS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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Recent Examples of nanoseconds 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 Interestingly, these tiny wonders can detect a temperature spike in 100 nanoseconds. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 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 The winners will measure their edge in nanoseconds and act before others can react. —

Ashok Reddy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Unlike standard eye drops that get washed away by tears within minutes, living eye drops use bacteria that colonize the eye and continuously release therapeutic proteins after a single application.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 16 June 2026
The lawsuit, filed on Saturday in the Central District of California, claims that the supermodel turned media personality participated in a 3½-hour interview, of which about 16 minutes was used.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026