Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One thousandth (10−3) of a second.
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- noun One one-thousandth of a
second . Symbol:ms
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- noun one thousandth (10^-3) of a second
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Examples
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From 25,327 miles per hour to 0. 1c in millisecond bursts.
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Bruce this movie's looking worse and worse by the freakin millisecond.
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In some editions Thursday, a Money & Investing article on stock-trading executive Thomas Peterffy incorrectly said millisecond, which is one thousandth of a second.
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We gave him extra pats all night; when we were watching TV, he even curled up on my lap for a millisecond, which is unheard of.
The Amazing Invisible Cat Susan Palwick 2008
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We gave him extra pats all night; when we were watching TV, he even curled up on my lap for a millisecond, which is unheard of.
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"Anything I can do to shave below a millisecond is a wonderful thing," he said.
PCWorld 2010
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When the neutron star has been sped up to rotate hundreds of times a second, it is called a millisecond pulsar.
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"Anything I can do to shave below a millisecond is a wonderful thing," he said.
PCWorld 2010
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Although researchers have calculated that the Milky Way galaxy contains tens of thousands of the fastest spinning pulsars, known as millisecond pulsars, radio telescopes have found only about 100.
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Here's the caveat: Even if you have a gadget to tell you when you're sugar's ready, leaving a pot of boiling sugar alone for more than a millisecond is a bad, bad idea, as anyone who's done it can tell you (myself included).
Serious Eats 2009
whichbe commented on the word millisecond
0,001 thousandth of a second ("ms")
May 17, 2008