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millisecond

[mil-uh-sek-uhnd] / ˈmɪl əˌsɛk ənd /


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The method, published in the journal Small, can generate predictions in milliseconds rather than the hours typically required by conventional simulations.

From Science Daily

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extremely powerful flashes of radio waves that last only milliseconds and come from distant galaxies.

From Science Daily

“Even milliseconds or seconds of interrupted blood flow to the brain can have serious consequences,” Dr. Altaf Saadi, a neurologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, told us.

From Salon

They believe this approach can eventually be extended to store single photons for many milliseconds.

From Science Daily

Pulsars emit powerful beams of electromagnetic radiation from their magnetic poles at intervals measured in milliseconds.

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