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- adjective Very
fast , or of very shortduration ; especially concerning events that take place infemtosecond orpicosecond timescales .
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Examples
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Electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) is also called ultrafast CT.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Zewail and his colleagues have achieved this by introducing the fourth dimension of time into high-resolution electron microscopy, in what has been termed ultrafast "single-electron" imaging, where every electron trajectory is precisely controlled in time and space.
Nano Tech Wire 2008
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Electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) is also called ultrafast CT.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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· Includes its own CD ripper with 'ultrafast' rip mode and cddb music database lookup.
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BT will also begin an "ultrafast" 1GB broadband trial near Ipswich.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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BT will also begin an "ultrafast" 1GB broadband trial near Ipswich.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Dr Mercer's method can look at those electron couplings directly with just one "ultrafast" laser pulse lasting 100 femtoseconds - or ten thousand million times shorter than an average camera flash.
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Dr Mercer's method can look at those electron couplings directly with just one "ultrafast" laser pulse lasting 100 femtoseconds - or ten thousand million times shorter than an average camera flash.
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Apple says the SSD is "ultrafast", with minimal seek time (0.16 ms) and the same throughput as a 7200 rpm hard drive.
Low End Mac 2009
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Dr Mercer's method can look at those electron couplings directly with just one "ultrafast" laser pulse lasting 100 femtoseconds - or ten thousand million times shorter than an average camera flash.
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