Millisecond is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Millisecond meaning
An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻³ seconds. Symbol: ms
Synonyms of Millisecond
Using Millisecond
- The main meaning on this page is: An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻³ seconds. Symbol: ms
- Useful related words include: msec, time unit, unit of time.
- In the example corpus, millisecond often appears in combinations such as: the millisecond, in millisecond, about millisecond.
Context around Millisecond
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Millisecond
- In this selection, "millisecond" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 200, two, elapsed, thought, average and response stand out and add context to how "millisecond" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a two millisecond pulse encoding and about 1 millisecond weather systems. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "millisecond" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with millisecond
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This was a last explosion of imagination, every millisecond a subreddit waiting to happen. (14 words)
FRBs are typically one-off blasts of radio waves through space, with each one lasting no more than a millisecond. (20 words)
It all happens in a millisecond, so the TMO intervenes and deems that there was downward pressure and Wales get another! (21 words)
SI prefixes are combined with the word second to denote subdivisions of the second, e.g., the millisecond (one thousandth of a second), the microsecond (one millionth of a second), and the nanosecond (one billionth of a second). (38 words)
Cicadas can extend their hind legs in under a millisecond to execute a jump, implying elastic storage of energy for sudden release. citation Predators, parasites and pathogens Eastern cicada killer wasp ( Sphecius speciosus ) with cicada prey. (36 words)
European red clay courts demand peak physical conditioning, the agility to chase drop shots with a millisecond’s notice, the dexterity to slide across the baseline and the perseverance to sustain 30-stroke points. (34 words)
It all happens in a millisecond, so the TMO intervenes and deems that there was downward pressure and Wales get another! (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
It all happens in a millisecond, so the TMO intervenes and deems that there was downward pressure and Wales get another!
Steaks are of course the special here, and they’re generously portioned, lightly seasoned, and grilled by pros who can calculate the cooking time for medium rare down to the millisecond.
I don’t know this - but I would think the Wild would take them back and hang them in a millisecond.
Peter stayed at the Delamere for 28 days before returning home, and has remained sober, saying he has not for a “millisecond” thought he was missing alcohol.
Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro the buttons feature 3rd-generation Razer Optical Switches, which actuate in less than 0.2 milliseconds—much less than the typical 1 millisecond average in office mice.
FRBs are typically one-off blasts of radio waves through space, with each one lasting no more than a millisecond.
The technical challenge is that proteins fold in a millisecond, and simulating it and all of the potential variations requires massive amounts of computational cycles.
European red clay courts demand peak physical conditioning, the agility to chase drop shots with a millisecond’s notice, the dexterity to slide across the baseline and the perseverance to sustain 30-stroke points.
Firstly, one millisecond after the detonation a 2km wide ball of plasma hotter than the sun erupts from the center of the blast zone, evaporating everything within its radius.
Even though PPIs occur everywhere in the human body, they are hard to detect with existing methods because they (i.e., the PPIs affecting cell signaling and cancer development) last about a millisecond.
Google Developer Guidelines — 200-millisecond response time and a one-second top of fold page load time, more than a subtle hint that speed should be a primary goal for every webmaster.
It took all of about a millisecond for him to get stuffed, putting an ugly halt to the Steelers’ drive still in their own territory.
That would require an additional technical leap – reducing what is called “latency,” or the delay between when a signal is sent and when it’s received, to 1 millisecond.
This was a last explosion of imagination, every millisecond a subreddit waiting to happen.
Cicadas can extend their hind legs in under a millisecond to execute a jump, implying elastic storage of energy for sudden release. citation Predators, parasites and pathogens Eastern cicada killer wasp ( Sphecius speciosus ) with cicada prey.
John A. Ball from the MIT Haystack Observatory suggests that an advanced civilization that has reached a technological singularity would be capable of transmitting a two-millisecond pulse encoding main bits of information.
Many operating systems will increment the timestamp for every elapsed millisecond; however the RFC only states that the ticks should be proportional.
SI prefixes are combined with the word second to denote subdivisions of the second, e.g., the millisecond (one thousandth of a second), the microsecond (one millionth of a second), and the nanosecond (one billionth of a second).
Some examples of Lyapunov times are: chaotic electrical circuits, about 1 millisecond; weather systems, a few days (unproven); the solar system, 50 million years.
The compression would have created a cannon effect, with the powder first blowing up from the top of the barrel before, a millisecond later, blowing out.
Common combinations with millisecond
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the millisecond 4×
- in millisecond 3×
- about millisecond 3×
- millisecond for 2×
- every millisecond 2×
- of millisecond 2×