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millisecond

[ mil-uh-sek-uhnd ]

noun

  1. one thousandth of a second. : msec


millisecond

/ ˈɪɪˌɛəԻ /

noun

  1. one thousandth of a second ms
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of millisecond1

First recorded in 1905–10; milli- + second 2
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Clearly, when Max elevates the game so much, you need to nail laps in qualifying and you need to bring home any possible millisecond.

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But you also need gut feel; the instinct to read a situation and grab a moment, all in milliseconds.

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And by the time that the conscious recognition of that has happened, which is around 300 milliseconds … Then the onset latency should be at least that amount of time, if not even more.”

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Although these time changes are only estimated to be a matter of milliseconds a year, they can accumulate over eons.

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Their strong magnetic fields can produce beams of radio waves that sweep across the sky like a lighthouse, resulting in metronomic radio pulses with intervals ranging from milliseconds to seconds.

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