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A millisecond isn't long enough for the blink of an eye, but a few milliseconds may determine the winner of a swim race or a hundred-yard dash. With the ever-increasing speed of modern technology, even a millisecond has started to seem a little sluggish; computer operations are now measured in nanoseconds—that is, billionths of a second.
Examples of millisecond in a Sentence
Rachel Metz, Fortune, 13 May 2024
All this in the blink of an eye—which, incidentally, also takes about 150 milliseconds.
—Jeremy White, WIRED, 9 May 2024
In principle, any LLM could benefit from playing the game against itself, and 1,000 rounds would take only a few milliseconds on a standard laptop.
—Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 9 May 2024
The new system distributes wheel slip management to each individual electric motor, reducing torque reaction from 100 milliseconds to a single millisecond giving drivers even more control over icy and slippery conditions.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2024
Theoretical speeds go beyond 10 Gbps with 1 millisecond of latency, but real-world performance around 1 Gbps is more common.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2024
High-energy muons traveling at near–light-speed endure longer, for milliseconds, because of the time dilation predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
On June 29, 2022, Earth rotated 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours, the fastest rotation that scientists had ever previously recorded, according to TimeAndDate.com.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
But the somatosensory cortex often reacted within 20 milliseconds.
—Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
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“Millisecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millisecond. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
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