millisecond

n. one thousandth of a second

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10−3 seconds and 10−2 seconds (1 millisecond to 10 milliseconds). A millisecond (ms) is one thousandth of a second. See also times of other orders of magnitude.shorter times1 millisecond (1 ms) – cycle time for frequency  1 kHz1 millisecond – duration of light for typical photo  flash strobe1 millisecond – repetition interval of  GPS C/A PN code1.000692286 milliseconds – time taken for light to travel 300 km in a vacuum2 milliseconds –  half life of hassium-2652.27 milliseconds – cycle time for the A above  middle C in music (440 Hz); if a tuning device for musical instruments generates just one tone, it is probably this tone3 milliseconds – a  housefly’s wing flap3.4 milliseconds – half life of  meitnerium-2665 milliseconds – a  honeybee’s wing flap8 milliseconds –  camera shutter speed at setting 1259 milliseconds – typical maximum  seek time for a 7200rpm hard disklonger times
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Noun
1. one thousandth of a second
(synonym) msec
(hypernym) time unit, unit of time
(part-holonym) second, sec, s
(part-meronym) microsecond

<unit> (ms) One thousandth of a second, one thousand microseconds. A long time for a modern computer.
(1995-08-18)

millisecond /'mili,sekənd/
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