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millisecond
One thousandth of a second. See space/time and ohnosecond.
millisecond
one thousandth of a second.
millisecond [′mil·ə‚sek·ənd]
(mechanics)
A unit of time equal to one-thousandth of a second. Abbreviated ms; msec.
(unit)millisecond - (ms) One thousandth of a second, one thousand microseconds. A long time for a modern computer.
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By monitoring the brains of three patients while they performed a simple language task (looking at a word, then either using it in a sentence as is or changing its tense or number, and finally articulating it silently), Sahin and his colleagues found three distinct periods of activity in Broca's area at 200 milliseconds (after first being presented with the word), 320 milliseconds and 450 milliseconds.
Scientists Trace Speed of Thought-to-Speech in Brain by FARS News Agency
I'd swap places with him in a millisecond if he wasn't Australian.
He's Scott good taste; RESULT! by The Mirror (London, England)
The new search technique would instead rely on radio waves generated like clockwork by millisecond pulsars--the collapsed remnants of massive stars that spin about once every one to 10 milliseconds.
Dead stars could help astronomers detect subtle ripples in spacetime: ... by Cowen, Ron / Science News
 
 
 
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