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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.
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Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 6 Aug. 2024
The rate of slowing varied between 0.3 and 1.0 millisecond per century between 1900 and 2000.
—Damian Carrington, Vox, 17 July 2024
This means a pedestrian should be recognized by the system within 14.2 milliseconds—up to 7.8 milliseconds before the Tesla’s Sony IMX490 camera would have generated the first frame with them present.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
As the Earth rotates faster than the moon orbits, this tugging saps our rotational energy and has slowed us down at a rate of 2.4 milliseconds per century.
—Lara Williams, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
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“Millisecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millisecond. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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