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

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

The white-hot reaction devoured the surrounding oxygen in a nanosecond and surged down the path of least resistance, which was, of course, immediately after LEP Commander Root.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer