nanosecond
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A nanosecond is the time it takes for light to travel about one foot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
The first half of the show unpacks the sensory systems that leads people to experience flavor in a nanosecond.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
Locating and directing this mission requires extreme precision down to the nanosecond, errors in navigation which could risk spacecraft entering the wrong orbits.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024
In experiments run by the team, acoustic exciton-polarons in Re6Se8Cl2 moved fast -- twice as fast as electrons in silicon -- and crossed several microns of the sample in less than a nanosecond.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
