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- noun one part in a billion equal parts
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Examples
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Google uses perhaps one-billionth of Watson's resources, or less, to handle each query.
Stephen Baker: Why IBM's Watson Is Smarter Than Google Stephen Baker 2011
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Google uses perhaps one-billionth of Watson's resources, or less, to handle each query.
Stephen Baker: Why IBM's Watson Is Smarter Than Google Stephen Baker 2011
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Nowadays the observatory has cesium and hydrogen maser clocks, instruments that deviate no more than one-billionth of a second a day.
The meaningful sounds that signal the end of a military day John Kelly 2010
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The Numbers Guy Blog Radiation Numbers in Damaged Japan Plant Becquerels, grays and sieverts all are internationally accepted units that quantify different aspects of radiation, while micro- and nano- are prefixes denoting one-millionth and one-billionth, respectively.
Radiation Math: How Do We Count the Rays? Carl Bialik 2011
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Nowadays the observatory has cesium and hydrogen maser clocks, instruments that deviate no more than one-billionth of a second a day.
The meaningful sounds that signal the end of a military day John Kelly 2010
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Instantly, in one-billionth of a second, all electrical power is cut off and cut off for months.
Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010
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Instantly, in one-billionth of a second, all electrical power is cut off and cut off for months.
Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010
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Phobos' shape is 27 km × 22 km × 19 km, and has a mass of 1.072 x 1016 kg, or about one-billionth the mass of Earth.
Follow Closest Flyby of Phobos in Real Time | Universe Today 2010
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Although the word "nano" also means one-billionth of a size, that is not its only definition.
How Homeopathic Medicines Work: Nanopharmacology At Its Best 2010
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Although the word "nano" also means one-billionth of a size, that is not its only definition.
Dana Ullman: How Homeopathic Medicines Work: Nanopharmacology At Its Best 2010
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