millisecond

Example Sentences

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While these tangles take minutes to form, intertwined blackworms can wriggle free in a matter of milliseconds.

From Scientific American

“The advantage of being bilingual doesn’t really lie on these milliseconds of advantage that one can have in a cognitive task,” she said.

From New York Times

"If it's a precise welding machine and it needs to move exactly this much, that has to happen within a microsecond or a millisecond, and you can't do that in a best effort way."

From Reuters

Matt O'Riley did brilliantly down the left but it was Kyogo's reading of the situation - the whole picture taken in in a millisecond - that brought the goal.

From BBC

Fifteen minutes doesn’t sound like much, but for classical reactions, scientists often take measurements “for 100 milliseconds, and they see almost all ions converted to product,” Wester says.

From Scientific American