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nanosecond

[nan-uh-sek-uhnd, nay-nuh-] / ˈnæn əˌsɛk ənd, ˈneɪ nə- /


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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

Time is currently measured on Earth by hundreds of atomic clocks stationed around our planet which measure the changing energy state of atoms to record time to the nanosecond.

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




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