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
Every metre of distance between two chips adds a nanosecond, one billionth of a second, to the processing time.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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
A key element to the experiment was installing a microchannel plate ion detector to accurately time the moment of impact down to the nanosecond.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2023
Every time they share a glance, every nanosecond of incidental contact, I want to smear papier-mâché over my eyeballs and let it dry so I never have to see them again.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
