Nanosecond
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nanosecond is a noun meaning (metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻⁹ seconds. Symbol: ns.
Meaning
(metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻⁹ seconds. Symbol: ns.
More Meanings
- (figurative) An extremely short period of time; an instant.
Example Sentences
I just know that the nanosecond I take my eyes off my phone, somebody's going to steal it.
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond
Since the tiny magnetic domains have to travel only submolecular distances, it is possible to read and write magnetic regions with different polarization as quickly as a single nanosecond — far faster than existing storage technologies.
“We were heavily involved in also trading: people on Wall Street were buying our stuff to save a few nanoseconds on the wire, the banks were doing crazy things like pulling the fibres under the Hudson taut to make them a little big shorter, to save a few nanoseconds between their datacentre and the stock exchange,” he said.
Word Forms
- nanoseconds
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nano, picosecond, megasecond, microsecond, microsec, nanometre.
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