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A millisecond isn't long enough for the blink of an eye, but a few milliseconds may determine the winner of a swim race or a hundred-yard dash. With the ever-increasing speed of modern technology, even a millisecond has started to seem a little sluggish; computer operations are now measured in nanoseconds—that is, billionths of a second.
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Grace, an expert pickpocket, removes the thumb drive at the exact millisecond the Entity is trapped inside, allowing for the artificial intelligence's capture without triggering a nuclear war or destruction of cyberspace across Earth.
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Tommy McArdle, People.com, 23 May 2025
Its call was unique; consisting of 16 to 35 notes that lasts for eight to 16 milliseconds.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
Those last few milliseconds are found in clean air, however.
—ArsTechnica, 21 Apr. 2025
Learning the mechanics involved analyzing more than 75 videos of people doing manu jumps, then taking lab members to Georgia Tech’s pool to do more than 50 trial jumps, all filmed in high definition to capture exactly what their bodies were doing at each millisecond.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 22 May 2025
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Tommy McArdle, People.com, 23 May 2025
Its call was unique; consisting of 16 to 35 notes that lasts for eight to 16 milliseconds.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
Those last few milliseconds are found in clean air, however.
—ArsTechnica, 21 Apr. 2025
Learning the mechanics involved analyzing more than 75 videos of people doing manu jumps, then taking lab members to Georgia Tech’s pool to do more than 50 trial jumps, all filmed in high definition to capture exactly what their bodies were doing at each millisecond.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 22 May 2025
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“Millisecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millisecond. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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millisecond
noun
mil·li·sec·ond
ˈmil-ə-ˌsek-ənd 
also -ənt
: one thousandth of a second
Medical Definition
millisecond
noun
mil·li·sec·ond
ˈmil-ə-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt
: one thousandth of a second
—abbreviation ms, msec
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